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  • Adaptive and Maladaptive Aspects of Developmental Stress

    Edited by Simone Macrì, Giovanni Laviola ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Since the very early stages of life, we all experience some form of stress. Stressors can be mild to severe and can range from unsuccessfully longing for maternal milk in infancy, to recklessly wiggling on a motorbike to be on time to watch the NBA finals on TV, to breaking up a relationship.All those events that we call “stress” have the capability of perturbing a given state of psychological and ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

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  • The Biology of Desire

    Why Addiction Is Not a Disease

    by Marc Lewis, PhD ...
    A renowned neuroscientist provides an “unorthodox but enlightening” (Wall Street Journal) narrative of how addiction happens in the brain, and what we can do to overcome itThrough the vivid, true stories of five people who journeyed into and out of addiction, a renowned neuroscientist—and former addict himself—explains why the disease model of addiction is wrong and how it obstructs the path to ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Mentored by a Madman: The William Burroughs Experiment

    The William Burroughs Experiment

    by A.J. Lees ...
    A fascinating account by one of the world's leading neurologists of the profound influence of William Burroughs on his medical career. Lees relates how Burroughs, author of Naked Lunch and troubled drug addict, inspired him to discover a ground-breaking treatment for Parkinson's Disease. Lees journeys to the Amazonian rainforest in search of cures, and through self-experimentation seeks to find ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Virginia Woolf and Neuropsychiatry

    by Maxwell Bennett ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book, written by one of the leaders in the field of the neurosciences, will give an explanation of the symptoms and eventual untimely suicide of one of literatures greatest authors; Virginia Woolf. The sources used are letters and statements from Woolf herself, the literature she wrote and comments, letters and any other documentation that referred to her mental state and her medical status. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Estrogen — Mystery Drug for the Brain?

    The Neuroprotective Activities of the Female Sex Hormone

    by Christian Behl ...
    It is well known that estrogen is "somehow” a protective hormone for various age-related disorders. This book provides a solid knowledge of estrogen’s neuroprotective activities in the brain with a special emphasis on neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer’s Disease. The focus is (1) to describe the biochemical, molecular, and cellular basis of the protective activity of estrogen and (2) to ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Oxidative Stress and Free Radical Damage in Neurology

    Edited by Natan Gadoth, Hans Hilmar Göbel ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    The role of free radicals and oxidative stress in neurological disorders has only recently been recognized, leaving clinical neurologists to seek in vain for information on the subject even in major textbooks. What published information there is may consist of brief reminders of the possible association of superoxidase dismutase with familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and nitrous oxide with ... Read more

    $188.09 USD

  • Arterial Chemoreceptors in Physiology and Pathophysiology

    Edited by Chris Peers, Prem Kumar, Estelle Gauda, Colin A. Nurse, Nanduri Prabhakar, Christopher Wyatt ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Every three years, the International Society for Arterial Chemoreception (ISAC) arranges a Meeting to bring together all of the major International research groups investigating the general topic of oxygen sensing in health and disease, with a prime focus upon systemic level hypoxia and carotid body function. This volume summarises the proceedings of the XIXth meeting of the Society, held in Leeds ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Phosphoinositides I: Enzymes of Synthesis and Degradation

    Edited by Tamas Balla, Matthias Wymann, John D. York ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Phosphoinositides play a major role in cellular signaling and membrane organization. During the last three decades we have learned that enzymes turning over phosphoinositides control vital physiological processes and are involved in the initiation and progression of cancer, inflammation, neurodegenerative, cardiovascular, metabolic disease and more. In two volumes, this book elucidates the crucial ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Trinucleotide Diseases and Instability

    Edited by Ben A. Oostra ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Till recently, mutations in genes were described in textbooks as deletions or point mutations. These mutations can be inherited from a parent or they are de novo alterations. The discovery in 1991 that human disease can be caused by large-scale ex pansion of highly unstable trinucleotide repeats has elucidated a new mutation mechanism, heritable unstable DNA. In the subsequent years more then 10 ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Biomarkers for Psychiatric Disorders

    Edited by Chris Turck ...
    Biomarkers hold immense promise for the early detection of disease. Unlike other disorders like diabetes and heart disease where a limited number of biological markers are at hand that allow the physician to come up with a reliable diagnosis, there are currently no such markers available for affective disorders. As in any other disease area a major goal is therefore the identification of early ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Translational Research in Environmental and Occupational Stress

    Edited by Shashi Bala Singh, Nanduri R. Prabhakar, Srinivas N Pentyala ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Cutting edge technologies can propel a simple finding in basic science to a concept that can be of immense value to the society. While applying novel techniques to unravel the mysteries of biological processes, an offshoot of applied branch emerged. This field, which is now widely referred to as Translational Research utilizes basic science findings and translates these findings into innovative ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Non-fibrillar Amyloidogenic Protein Assemblies - Common Cytotoxins Underlying Degenerative Diseases

    Edited by Farid Rahimi, Gal Bitan ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Amyloid-forming proteins are implicated in over 30 human diseases. The proteins involved in each disease have unrelated sequences and dissimilar native structures, but they all undergo conformational alterations to form fibrillar polymers. The fibrillar assemblies accumulate progressively into disease-specific lesions in vivo. Substantial evidence suggests these lesions are the end state of ... Read more

    $188.09 USD