This multi-author book is an important contribution to the fields of nephrology and nephropathology, which is primarily focused on the discussion o...

There are a variety of tumors that can arise from various compartments and cellular components of peripheral nerves throughout the body. These peri...

This book summarises recent knowledge about the immune, inflammatory, endocrine and neuronal networks. The pathomechanisms of hypertrophy in cardio...

A neural pathway is a neural tract connecting one part of the nervous system with another, usually consisting of bundles of elongated, myelin-insul...

Until recently, it was thought that the adult brain is modifiable only during early stages of ontogenesis. However, neurophysiological and neuroima...

Among the many applications of stem cell research are nervous system diseases, diabetes, heart disease, auto-immune diseases as well as Parkinson's...

Chemical synapses are specialised junctions through which cells of the nervous system signal to one another and to non-neuronal cells such as muscl...

Neural Tube Defects (NTDs) are congenital malformations of the central nervous system caused by partial or complete failure of the neural tube to c...

This book is about the challenge of nursing people with a degenerative brain disease. It is a text that can be read by both qualified nurses and in...

Targeted therapy is a type of medication that blocks the growth of cancer cells by interfering with specific targeted molecules needed for carcinog...

Neuroanatomy is the study of the anatomical organisation of the brain. Reciprocal communication between the brain and the cardiovascular system is ...

Autism is an extremely complex neurodevelopmental disorder that is expressed in a spectrum of phenotypes and is characterised by impaired reciproca...

Neurocutaneous Syndromes unify a group of rare neurological disorders in which the initial identification depends on simple visual disgnosis. They ...

This book discusses in detail the different hypothesis and experimental evidence regarding the neurobiological mechanisms involved in neurodegenera...

Neurodegenerative diseases are widespread disorders, with prevalence increasing with age. The first chapter of this book discusses autophagy, a cel...

In recent years our approach to neurodevelopmental disorders has undergone extraordinary change. This because of tremendous progress in several dis...

Neuroendocrinology is the study of the interactions between the nervous system and the endocrine system. The concept arose from the recognition tha...

Neurofibromatosis Type 1 (NF1) is a hereditary neurocutaneous tumour disorder that owes many of its most common features to abnormalities in neural...

Neurogenesis is a process that includes not only a generation of new neurons from neural stem and progenitor cells, but functional integration of t...

Mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI) is a significant public health problem representing 75% of traumatic brain injury (TBI) cases. There are several...

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory demyelinating disease that affects the whole brain. Neuroimaging techniques that can help elucida...