Brain Repair

Name: Brain Repair
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ISBN: 9780195076424

ISBN-10: 0195076427

ISBN-13: 9780195076424

Edition: 1995

Authors: Donald G. Stein, Simï¿½n Brailowsky, Bruno Will

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Sixty years ago, the Nobel laureate Santiago Ramon y Cajal stated that "in the adult brain, nervous pathways are fixed and immutable; everything may die, nothing may be regenerated." Cajal's influence has been legendary--and conventional wisdom still holds that the human brain cannot repair itself. Today, however, remarkable discoveries from laboratories around the world offer a much more optimistic prognosis. In Brain Repair, three internationally renowned neuroscientists team up to offer an intriguing and up-to-the-minute introduction to the explosive advances being made in the research, technology, and treatment of brain damage. The key to neuroscience's most exciting discoveries to…

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List price: $23.00
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/7/1995
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 176
Size: 6.35" wide x 9.45" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.924
Language: English



Introduction


Brain and Behavior: A Brief History of Ideas


Looking into the Living Brain


Neurons at Work


The Injured Brain


Regeneration, Repair, and Reorganization


Factors in the Brain That Enhance Growth and Repair


Age and Recovery: Is There a Difference Between Brain Damage That Occurs Early and Late in Life?


Brain Transplants as Therapy for Brain Injuries?


The Pharmacology of Brain Injury Repair


Environment, Brain Function, and Brain Repair


Epilogue: Where Do We Go from Here?


Notes


Index