Brain Repair

Donald G. Stein, Simon Brailowsky, Bruno Will (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

176 Seiten

1997
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-511918-3 (ISBN)

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Over a half million people each year suffer brain-damaging injuries and diseases -- but the outlook for their eventual recovery is far more hopeful than it was just a short while ago. 'Brain Repair offers an up-to-the-minute introduction to the advances being made in the research, technology, and treatment of brain damage.

Here is a book that anyone interested in how the brain works will find fascinating and enjoyable. Written in a highly readable style, the book looks at how the damaged brain can be repaired and reconstructed.

The key to neuroscience's most exciting discoveries to date is the theory that is rapidly gaining adherents in the scientific community - the theory of neuroplasticity. Neuroplasticity stresses that cells throughout the brain can not only regenerate, but can adapt their function to assume critical roles once performed by damaged tissue. The author explains how the brain manufactures complex chemicals that foster growth in damaged brain cells, and how misguided ideas can adversely affect how physicians treat patients.

A best-selling volume in France and Spain, Brain Repair provides a vividly written, wide-ranging look at the leading edge of one of science's most exciting frontiers.

Donald G. Stein is Professor of Psychobiology and former Dean of the Graduate School at Rutgers University. Simon Brailowsky is Professor of Neuroscience at the National University of Mexico. Bruno Will is Professor of Behavioral neuroscience at Louis Pasteur University, Strasbourg, France.

1. How the brain functions: A brief chronology of a long history ; 2. Looking into the living brain ; 3. Neuronal and synaptic plasticity: Neurons at work ; 4. Regeneration, repair and reorganization ; 5. Factors in the brain that enhance growth and repair ; 6. Age, time, and plasticity ; 7. Brain transplants as therapy for brain injuries ; 8. The pharmacology of brain injury repair ; 9. Environment, brain function and brain repair ; 10. Where do we go from here?

Erscheint lt. Verlag	6.11.1997
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	233 x 156 mm
Gewicht	277 g
Themenwelt	Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Chirurgie ► Neurochirurgie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Neurologie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie
ISBN-10	0-19-511918-5 / 0195119185
ISBN-13	978-0-19-511918-3 / 9780195119183
Zustand	Neuware