From development to degeneration and regeneration of the nervous system
By: Charles E. Ribak ... [et al.].
Contributors: Ribak, Charles E.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 343
ISBN-13: 9780195369007
Subjects: Central nervous system -- Physiology; Nervous system -- Degeneration; Nervous system -- Regeneration; Neuroplasticity; Central Nervous System -- physiology; Nerve Regeneration; Neurodegenerative Diseases -- physiopathology; Neuronal Plasticity
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.