Skip to main content

Books in Neuroscience

Elsevier's Neuroscience collection empowers educators, researchers, and students with actionable knowledge to drive collaborative research and advancements in the field. Content covers the nervous system's intricate workings, covering branches like Affective, Behavioral, and Cognitive neuroscience to investigate the neural basis of emotions, behavior, and cognitive functions. Spanning from Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience to Developmental Neuroscience, content provides insights into brain function in health and disease.

  • Physics of Biological Action and Perception

    • 1st Edition
    • Mark L. Latash
    • English
    Physics of Biological Action and Perception helps researchers interested in exploring biological motor control from a physics or alternative viewpoint perspective. The book introduces the idea of parametric control as a distinguishing feature of living systems. Sections cover how the CNS creates stable percepts based on fuzzy and continuously changing signals from numerous receptors and the variable processes related to ongoing actions. The author also develops the idea of control with referent coordinates to stability of salient variables in fields typically united under the label of "cognition." Examples of this include communication (how the gist of a message is preserved despite variability of phrases), thought processes (how one can solve a mental problem via different logical routes), and playing chess (how one selects an optimal move given a position on the board). The book is written for researchers, instructors, clinicians and other professionals in all the fields related to biological movement and perception.
  • New Techniques for Management of ‘Inoperable’ Gliomas

    • 1st Edition
    • Michael E. Sughrue + 1 more
    • English
    New Techniques for Management of 'Inoperable' Gliomas radically challenges the assumption that certain gliomas cannot be removed with modern techniques, contesting stereotypical thinking and establishing new paradigms in the field. Gliomas are primary brain tumors which are often fatal. Recent data has demonstrated that despite the fact that surgery cannot cure gliomas, patient survival is substantially improved by removing as much of the tumor as possible. This fact has raised the imperative that neurologists try to improve techniques to bring surgical resection to as many patients as possible. This book brings new insights and technologies to the forefront, giving hope to patients.
  • Neurophysiologie

    De la physiologie à l'exploration fonctionnelle - avec simulateur informatique
    • 3rd Edition
    • Jean-François Vibert + 8 more
    • French
    Ce manuel expose les connaissances actuelles en neurophysiologie dans une optique clinique. Il présente de manière simple et claire le fonctionnement du système nerveux et les conséquences cliniques de ses dysfonctionnements.À partir de leur expérience, les auteurs, médecins enseignants-chercheu... décrivent les méthodes physiologiques d’exploration du système nerveux normal et pathologique, et les résultats que l’on peut en attendre. Le lecteur acquiert ainsi les connaissances indispensables à la prescription et à l’interprétation de tels examens. L’abondante iconographie en couleurs illustre avec justesse un texte didactique et complet.Cette 3e édition propose une révision approfondie de l’ensemble des contenus en optimisant l’aspect et l’approche pédagogique :• les parties sur les explorations fonctionnelles d’une part et celles sur les troubles et la clinique d’autre part sont désormais harmonisées et individualisées dans des encarts ;• de nouvelles illustrations viennent enrichir l’iconographie ;• par ailleurs, le lecteur bénéficie d’un accès en ligne à toute l’iconographie de l’ouvrage (260 illustrations), grâce à une banque d’images ;• de nombreux exercices pratiques à réaliser à l’aide d’un simulateur informatique, sont également accessibles en ligne, afin d’appréhender aisément le fonctionnement des neurones et le comportement des réseaux de neurones.Neurophysio... est destiné aux étudiants en médecine, en sciences paramédicales et STAPS. Sa lecture constituera également une aide pour les médecins et les autres professionnels de santé.
  • Compulsive Eating Behavior and Food Addiction

    Emerging Pathological Constructs
    • 1st Edition
    • Pietro Cottone + 3 more
    • English
    Compulsive Eating Behavior and Food Addiction: Emerging Pathological Constructs is the first book of its kind to emphasize food addiction as an addictive disorder. This book focuses on the preclinical aspects of food addiction research, shifting the focus towards a more complex behavioral expression of pathological feeding and combining it with current research on neurobiological substrates. This book will become an invaluable reference for researchers in food addiction and compulsive eating constructs. Compulsive eating behavior is a pathological form of feeding that phenotypically and neurobiologically resembles the compulsive-like behaviors associated with both drug abuse and behavioral addictions. Compulsive eating behavior, including Binge Eating Disorder (BED), certain forms of obesity, and ‘food addiction’ affect an estimated 70 million individuals worldwide.
  • New Therapeutic Strategies for Brain Edema and Cell Injury

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 146
    • English
    New Therapeutic Strategies for Brain Edema and Cell Injury, Volume 145, the latest release in the International Review of Neurobiology series, highlights new advances in the field, with this volume presenting interesting chapters on the Blood-brain barrier breakdown and brain edema formation in Alzheimer’s disease, Blast brain Injury induced edema formation and therapeutic measures, Brain edema in Parkinson’s disease. Novel therapeutic strategies, Brain edema and blood-brain barrier breakdown in sleep deprivation. Therapeutic potential of cerebrolysin, Differential cell injury induced by NMDA antagonist MK 801 in early age, Anesthetics influence Brain edema in concussive head injury, and more.
  • Mathematical Modelling in Motor Neuroscience: State of the Art and Translation to the Clinic, Gaze Orienting Mechanisms and Disease

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 249
    • English
    Mathematical Modelling in Motor Neuroscience: State of the Art and Translation to the Clinic, Gaze Orienting Mechanisms and Disease, Volume 249, the latest release in the Progress in Brain Research series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on a variety of topics, including Sequential Bayesian updating, Maps and Sensorimotor Transformations for Eye-Head Gaze Shifts: Role of the Midbrain Superior Colliculus, Modeling Gaze Position-Dependent Opsoclonus, Eye Position-Dependent Opsoclonus in Mild Traumatic Brain Injury, Saccades in Parkinson's disease -- hypometric, slow, and maladaptive, Brainstem Neural Circuits for Fixation and Generation of Saccadic Eye Movements, and much more.
  • Neonatal Neurology

    Handbook of Clinical Neurology Series
    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 162
    • English
    Neonatal Neurology, Volume 162 in the Handbook of Clinical Neurology, series updates the reader on the latest advances in the study of neurological diseases diagnosed in the fetal and neonatal periods. With recent advances in magnetic resonance imaging, digital electroencephalograp... recording, and genetic testing and diagnosis, there is expanding awareness relating to early onset neurological conditions and how their early diagnosis can improve prediction of outcome and subsequent neurodevelopmental outcome. This new volume covers diagnosis and management of congenital conditions, including brain malformations, neuromuscular conditions and genetic epilepsies, as well as acquired injury related to peri-partum events, prematurity, critical illness and systemic diseases.
  • Clinical Neurophysiology: Diseases and Disorders

    Handbook of Clinical Neurology Series
    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 161
    • English
    Clinical Neurophysiology: Diseases and Disorders, the latest release in the Handbook of Clinical Neurology series, reviews the current practice of clinical neurophysiology in the laboratory, by the bedside, and in the operating room or intensive care unit. The volume is organized into sections focused on diseases of the central and peripheral nervous systems, sleep disorders, and autonomic disorders. Among the CNS topics covered are epilepsy, altered states of consciousness, disorders of cognition, brain death, demyelinating diseases, stroke, pain, movement disorders, vestibular disease, and auditory disorders. Peripheral nervous system topics include focal mononeuropathies, generalized polyneuropathies, muscle diseases, hyperexcitability states, neuromuscular junction disorders, anterior horn cells diseases, and cranial neuropathies. There are also chapters on sleep apneas, hypersomnias, parasomnias, and circadian rhythm disorders. Autonomic topics include primary autonomic failure, multisystem atrophy, and postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome.
  • Photobiomodulation in the Brain

    Low-Level Laser (Light) Therapy in Neurology and Neuroscience
    • 1st Edition
    • Michael R. Hamblin + 1 more
    • English
    Photobiomodulation in the Brain: Low-Level Laser (Light) Therapy in Neurology and Neuroscience presents the fundamentals of photobiomodulation and the diversity of applications in which light can be implemented in the brain. It will serve as a reference for future research in the area, providing the basic foundations readers need to understand photobiomodulation’s science-based evidence, practical applications and related adaptations to specific therapeutic interventions. The book covers the mechanisms of action of photobiomodulation to the brain, and includes chapters describing the pre-clinical studies and clinical trials that have been undertaken for diverse brain disorders, including traumatic events, degenerative diseases and psychiatric disorders.
  • Clinical Neurophysiology: Basis and Technical Aspects

    Handbook of Clinical Neurology Series
    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 160
    • English
    Clinical Neurophysiology: Basis and Technical Aspects, the latest release in the Handbook of Clinical Neurology series, is organized into sections on basic physiological concepts, on the function and limitations of modern instrumentation, and on other fundamental or methodologic aspects related to the recording of various bioelectric signals from the nervous system for clinical or investigative purposes. There is discussion of the EEG, nerve conduction studies, needle electromyography, intra-operative clinical neurophysiology, sleep physiology and studies, the autonomic nervous system, various sensory evoked potentials, and cognitive neurophysiology.