Title: From development to degeneration and regeneration of the nervous system /
Authors: Ribak, Charles E.
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Year: 2009
Subjects: Central nervous system Physiology.; Nervous system Degeneration; Nervous system Regeneration; Neuroplasticity.; Central Nervous System physiology; Nerve Regeneration; Neurodegenerative Diseases physiopathology; Neuronal Plasticity
Abstract: This book provides current information about the three areas mentioned in the title: Neuronal Migration and Development, Degenerative Brain Diseases, and Neural Plasticity and Regeneration. The chapters about brain development examine the cellular and molecular mechanisms by which neurons are generated from the ventricular zone in the forebrain and migrate to their destinations in the cerebral cortext. This description of cortical development also includes a discussions of the Cajal-Retzius cell. Another chapter provides insight about the development of another forebrain region, the hypothalamus. The remaining chapters of this section examine the clinical relevance of brain development in certain disease states in humans: neural tube defects and the normal and abnormal development of human electroencephalographic recordings during the first year of age.
Contents: Part 1: Cajal's legacy -- The legacy of Cajal in Mexico / Jose Luis Diaz -- Part 2: neuronal migration and development -- Tangential cell movements during early telencephalic development / Juan A. De Carlos, Fernando Garcia-Moreno -- Genetic control of Cajal-Retzuis cell development / Amaya Miquelajauregui, Alfredo Varela-Echavarria -- Development of the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus / Larry W. Swanson -- Neural tube defects: new insights on risk factors / Enrique Pedernera, Rodrigo Nunez Vidales, Carmen Mendez -- Quantitative electroencephalography in the normal and abnormal developing human brain / Thalia Harmony...[et al.] -- Part 3: degenerative brain disease -- The Nigo-Striatal DA neurons and mechanisms of their degeneration in Parkinson's disease / Kjell Fuxe...[et al.] -- Degeneration and regenaration of myelin in the central nervous system of the aging monkey / Alan Peters -- Degeneration in the canine aging brain / Elizabeth Head -- Alzheimer's disease-related mechanisms of neuronal dysfunction and degeneration: studies in human cortical neurons / Jorge Busciglio, Atul Deshpande -- Aberrant cells and synaptic circuits in pediatric epilepsy surgery patients / Carlos Cepeda...[et al.] -- Part 4: neural plasticity and regeneration -- Developmental profile of newly generated granule cells in the adult rodent dentate gyrus / Charles E. Ribak, Zachary D. Perez, Lee A. Shapiro -- functional architecture of directional tuining in the primate motor cortex during 3D reaching / Hugo Merchant...[et al.] -- Neural codes for perceptual decisions / Ranulfo Romo...[et al.] -- Human neural stem cell-mediated repair of the contused spinal cord: timing and microenvironment / Brian J. Cummings...[et al.] -- Spinal cord injury pathology differs with injury type, age, and exercise / Monica M Siegenthaler, Hans S. Keistead.