
The other brain : from dementia to schizophrenia, how new discoveries about the brain are revolutionizing medicine and science / R. Douglas Fields.
Título:
The other brain : from dementia to schizophrenia, how new discoveries about the brain are revolutionizing medicine and science / R. Douglas Fields.
ISBN:
9780743291415
Autor personal:
Edición:
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Información de publicación:
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2010.
Descripción física:
x, 371 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contenido:
Bubble wrap or brilliant glue? -- A look inside the brain: the cellular components of the brain -- Transmissions from the other brain: glia know and control your mind -- Brain cancer: almost nothing to do with neurons -- Brain and spinal cord injury -- Infection -- Mental health: glia, silent partners in mental illness -- Neurodegenerative disorders -- Glia and pain: a blessing and a curse -- Glia and addiction: a neuron-glia dependence -- Mother and child -- Aging: glia rage against the dying light -- The mind of the other brain: glia controlling the conscious and unconscious mind -- Memory and brain power beyond neurons -- Thinking beyond synapses -- Into the future: the new brain.
DAK_OCLC_NUMBER:
ocn310397920
Disponibilidad:
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