"A groundbreaking approach to reclaiming health." -- David Perlmutter, MD, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Grain Brain and Drop Acid For de...

A 'generalised seizure' corresponds to an ictal manifestation whose initial semeiology indicates or is consistent with more than minimal involvemen...

This volume provides updated information on epilepsy genes, on the clinical picture of genetic epilepsies discovered so far, and on conceptual adva...

Genetic studies of the epilepsies are essential for clinical diagnosis, family counselling and as a critical route to understanding the basic biolo...

The brain has long been considered an immune privileged organ, meaning that inflammatory cells are excluded due to a relatively impenetrable blood ...

This book provides basic researchers and clinicians with a contemporary review of personalised medicine for the diagnosis and treatment of Glioblas...

The discovery that a variety of growth factors modulate excitability in the adult brain, and that the expression of growth factors and their recept...

A hallucination, in the broadest sense, is a perception in the absence of a stimulus. In a stricter sense, hallucinations are defined as perception...

In recent years there have been significant advances in the knowledge of risk factors, gene-environment interactions, incidence, prevalence, outcom...

Deep brain Stimulation (DBS) is being increasingly carried out for several neurological disorders, the most common being Parkinson's disease. This ...

Down syndrome is a condition in which extra genetic material causes delays in the way a child develops, both mentally and physically. It affects ab...

A motor skill is a learned series of movements that combine to produce a smooth, efficient action. Gross motor skills include lifting one's head, r...

Neuropsychiatry is the branch of medicine dealing with mental disorders attributable to diseases of the nervous system. This new book presents topi...

Most spinal cord injury causes permanent disability or loss of movement (paralysis) and sensation below the site of the injury. Paralysis that invo...

'Handbook of Stroke and Neurocritical Care' is a thorough-source of referenced material in handbook format that provides useful material on the top...

Cerebral palsy (CP) is an extremely heterogeneous condition. There is any number of etiological pathways possible for causing brain damage to the d...

This practical book provides a handy reference for the doctor confronted with patients complaining of headache. Headache is one of the most common ...

Exposure to toxic metals remains a public health hazard around the globe. Though the prevalence and intensity of exposure may vary from place to pl...

Genetically determined myelinopathies are a large group of neurological diseases that present a challenge to the clinician, the biologist and the g...

The hippocampus , the Greek word for seahorse, is one of the most fascinating and intriguing regions of the mammalian brain. It is a bilateral incu...

A peculiar feature of the mammalian hippocampus is that it maintains the ability to generate new neurons throughout adult life while most other are...

It was recently proposed that respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) reflects the ability of the organism to integrate behavioural and metabolic demand...

Neuroscience is the scientific study of the nervous system. The principle mechanism underlying enhanced pain sensitivity is a persistent hyperexcit...

This book provides readers with the latest developments in neuroscience research. Chapter One discusses the development of neurochemical characteri...