This book provides a comprehensive update on multiple aspects of the wide-ranging topic of mental retardation. The opening part of the volume is de...

Mental retardation is a term used when a person has certain limitations in mental functioning and in skills such as communicating, taking care of h...

This work is the result of a recently held International Epilepsy Colloquium on the mesial temporal lobe epilepsies (MTLE) which covered all aspect...

This multiauthored book describes the maglinant tumour, mesothelioma, and the latest advances in the field. Its purpose is to offer a comprehensive...

This book discusses in detail new aspects of the metabolic basis of important chronic liver diseases. Entities such as non-alcoholic fatty liver di...

This book is dedicated to an update on metabolic disorders and their consequences on the developing nervous system. In the last ten years, major sc...

Metabolic syndrome is a clustering of cardio-metabolic risk factors that include obesity, insulin resistance, hypertension and dyslipidemia. These ...

Melanomas are usually highly proliferative, invasive and are most frequently metastatic. Melanoma accounts for nearly 4% of skin cancer cases but, ...

This compilation provides a compact overview of the feasibility and clinical impact of novel therapies for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aur...

Great strides in investigative methods in recent years have brought much new information on microcirculation, particularly with respect to the role...

This book discusses the influence of the brain microcirculation on the development of the pathological changes in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD). ...

MicroRNAs, or miRNAs, are a recently discovered class of small regulatory RNAs that influence the stability and translational efficiency of target ...

Migraine is a painful neurological condition, of which the most common symptom is an intense and disabling episodic headache. Migraine headaches ar...

Emerging imaging techniques have recently enabled visualizing intracellular neurofibrillary tau tangles in human brains in vivo with PET tracers. R...

Minimally invasive mitral valve surgery is a relatively new field that cardiac surgeons are increasingly embracing. Its adoption is exponentially i...

Miscarriage is a common problem in obstetrics and often experienced in woman's life. It occurs in about 10 percent of pregnancy and is more frequen...

A miscarriage can be defined as a pregnancy that ends spontaneously before the foetus has reached a viable gestational age. There are two types of ...

This book discusses the different aspects of mitral regurgitation as well as diagnostic and imaging studies to evaluate the patients at risk. Treat...

A new phase of anti-epileptic drugs (AEDs) investigation has begun in which new drugs can be designed to target specific epileptogenic mechanisms. ...

This book contains material relevant for students and researchers interested in the basic science of infectious diseases. The material in this book...

The fight-or-flight response could be characterised as a discretionary capability of choice, conditioned by learning that allows evolution to go be...

Skin is the most voluminous connective tissue of the body. Skin, like all other human organs, undergoes progressive alterations as a consequence of...