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Advances in the Neuroscience of Addiction (Hardback - 22 Feb 2010)

Advances in the Neuroscience of Addiction
Understanding the phenomenon of long-lasting vulnerability to addiction is essential to developing successful treatments. Written by a distinguished international team of contributors who are authorities in their respective fields, Advances in the Neuroscience of Addiction provides an excellent overview of the available and emerging approaches used to investigate the biologic mechanisms of drug addiction. It also...

Edited by Cynthia M. Kuhn; George F. Koob

ISBN-13: 9780849373916 ; ISBN-10: 0849373913

Price: £89.00 £77.70 Not Available

Modeling Phase Transitions in the Brain (Hardback - 5 Feb 2010)

Modeling Phase Transitions in the Brain
The induction of unconsciousness using anesthetic agents demonstrates that the cerebral cortex can operate in two very different behavioral modes: alert and responsive vs. unaware and quiescent. But the states of wakefulness and sleep are not single-neuron properties---they emerge as bulk properties of cooperating populations of neurons, with the switchover between states being similar to the physical change of...

Edited by D. Alistair Steyn-Ross; Moira Steyn-Ross

ISBN-13: 9781441907950 ; ISBN-10: 1441907955

Price: £138.19 £135.87 UK delivery 3 to 5 days

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Translational Neuroscience & its Advancement of Animal Research Ethics (Hardback - 1 Apr 2010)

Translational Neuroscience & its Advancement of Animal Research Ethics
The purpose of this book is to focus on breakthroughs in translational neuroscience and bio-behavioural research. This book is divided into three separate sections with each reflecting a domain in which advancements have been made. Collectively, these chapters serve to highlight the advancements made in translational neuroscience that have lead to innovative animal modelling, theoretical development and educational...

Edited by Jason E Warnik; Allan V Kauleff

ISBN-13: 9781608761852 ; ISBN-10: 1608761851

Price: £74.50 £49.21 Not Available

Neural Computation & Particle Accelerators: Research, Technology & Applications (Hardback - 1 Apr 2010)

Neural Computation & Particle Accelerators
This book discusses neural computation, a network or circuit of biological neurons and relatedly, particle accelerators, a scientific instrument which accelerates charged particles such as protons, electrons and deuterons. Accelerators have a very broad range of applications in many industrial fields, from high energy physics to medical isotope production. Nuclear technology is one of the fields discussed in this...

By (author) Emmerich Chabot; Horace D'Arras

ISBN-13: 9781607412809 ; ISBN-10: 1607412802

Price: £107.50 £68.85 Not Available

Animal Genetics (Hardback - 1 Apr 2010)

Animal Genetics
The fact that living things inherit traits from their parents has been used since prehistoric times to improve crop plants and animals through selective breeding. Many aspects of human and animal behaviors have a strong genetic contribution. Individual variation in different behaviors is also found across animal populations. Animal models are increasingly being used to look for genes underlying these naturally...

Edited by Leopold J Rechi

ISBN-13: 9781607418443 ; ISBN-10: 1607418444

Price: £115.99 £73.77 Not Available

Neuroscience Research Advances (Hardback - 1 Apr 2010)

Neuroscience Research Advances
Neuroscience is the scientific study of the nervous system. Survival infants with congenital heart disease (CHD) are at significant risk for neurodevelopmental impairment, either as a result of in utero physiological effects of abnormal circulation, associated congenital brain anomalies, neurodevelopmental compromise before, during and after surgical repair, or combinations of all these factors. This book examines...

By (author) Benito Figueredo; Fidel Meléndez

ISBN-13: 9781606929674 ; ISBN-10: 1606929674

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Sleep Deprivation: Causes, Effects & Treatment (Hardback - 1 Apr 2010)

Sleep Deprivation
Sleep deprivation is a sufficient lack of restorative sleep over a cumulative period so as to cause physical or psychiatric symptoms and affect routine performances or tasks. Sleep deprivation and sleep disorders are quite common and affect millions of people world-wide. This book discusses the physiological effects of sleep deprivation on the brain. Cognitive performance efficiency during a night without sleep is...

Edited by Pedr Fulke; Sior Vaughan

ISBN-13: 9781607419747 ; ISBN-10: 1607419742

Price: £112.50 £71.75 Not Available

Neurochemistry: Molecular Aspects, Cellular Aspects & Clinical Applications (Hardback - 1 Apr 2010)

Neurochemistry
Neurochemistry is the specific study of neurochemicals, which include neurotransmitters and other molecules such as neuro-active drugs that influence neuron function. There is evidence that the neurotransmitter norepinephrine (NE) might be very important in pathophysiology of anxiety and mood disorders. This book analyses the effect of psychiatric medications on NE system and proposes how the treatment outcome...

Edited by Anacleto Paços; Silvio Nogueira

ISBN-13: 9781607418313 ; ISBN-10: 1607418312

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Dendritic Spines: Biochemistry, Modeling & Properties (Hardback - 1 Apr 2010)

Dendritic Spines
A dendritic spine (or spine) is a small membranous protrusion from a neuron's dendrite that typically receives input from a single synapse of an axon. Dendritic spines serve as a storage site for synaptic strength and help transmit electrical signals to the neuron's cell body. Most spines have a bulbous head (the spine head), and a thin neck that connects the head of the spine to the shaft of the dendrite. The...

Edited by Louis R Baylog

ISBN-13: 9781607414605 ; ISBN-10: 1607414600

Price: £120.99 £76.67 Not Available

Marine Ecosystems and Global Change (Hardback - 11 Feb 2010)

Marine Ecosystems and Global Change
Global changes, including climate change and intensive fishing, are having significant impacts on the world's oceans. This book advances knowledge of the structure and functioning of marine ecosystems and their major sub-systems, and how they respond to physical forcing. Global environmental change (including climate change, biodiversity loss, changes in hydrological and biogeochemical cycles, and intensive...

Edited by Manuel Barange; John G. Field; Roger P. Harris; Eileen E. Hofmann; R. Ian Perry; Francisco Werner

ISBN-13: 9780199558025 ; ISBN-10: 0199558027

Price: £75.00 £60.75 UK delivery 2 to 3 days

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Choosing Tomorrow's Children: The Ethics of Selective Reproduction (Hardback - 18 Feb 2010)

Choosing Tomorrow's Children
To what extent should parents be allowed to use reproductive technologies to determine the characteristics of their future children? Is there something morally wrong with choosing what their sex will be, or with trying to 'screen out' as much disease and disability as possible before birth? Stephen Wilkinson offers answers to such questions. To what extent should parents be allowed to use reproductive technologies...

By (author) Stephen Wilkinson

ISBN-13: 9780199273966 ; ISBN-10: 0199273960

Price: £40.00 £34.20 UK delivery 2 to 3 days

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Teaching Human Variation: Issues, Trends & Challenges (Hardback - 1 Apr 2010)

Teaching Human Variation
It is fitting that this book on Teaching Human Variation appear in 2009, for this year marks the bicentenary of the birth of Charles Darwin and the sesquicentenary of the publication of The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. The concept of Natural Selection was put forward as a mechanism to explain how evolutionary change might have occurred. We owe the hypothesis to Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel...

Edited by Goran Štrkalj

ISBN-13: 9781608766161 ; ISBN-10: 1608766160

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Handbook of Optimization Theory: Decision Analysis & Application (Hardback - 1 Apr 2010)

Handbook of Optimization Theory
Several problems in modern genome mapping analysis belong to the field of discrete optimisation on a set of all possible orders. In this book, formulations, mathematical models and algorithms for genetic/genomic mapping problem that can be formulated in TSP-like terms are proposed. Since the 1960s, Operational Research techniques have extensively been developed to support organisations in their Manpower Planning...

Edited by Juan Varela; Sergio Acuña

ISBN-13: 9781608765003 ; ISBN-10: 1608765008

Price: £162.50 £100.75 Not Available

Forensic Genetics Research Progress (Hardback - 1 Apr 2010)

Forensic Genetics Research Progress
In addition to supplementing existing analysis techniques in serious crime cases, trace DNA can allow investigation of volume crime cases such as burglary or vehicle theft, where previously DNA evidence was not considered usable. However, despite the widespread use of trace DNA, at present there are very few specific validated methods. This has lead to controversy in the use of trace DNA, and particularly the low...

By (author) Fabricio Gonzalez-Andrade

ISBN-13: 9781608761982 ; ISBN-10: 1608761983

Price: £104.50 £67.11 Not Available

Relationship Between Automatic & Controlled Processes of Attention & Leading to Complex Thinking (Hardback - 1 Apr 2010)

Relationship Between Automatic & Controlled Processes of Attention & Leading to Complex Thinking
This book begins with a theoretical and up-to-date overview on automatic and controlled processes. Automatic processing is effortless, fast and fairly error-free. It can be accomplished simultaneously with other cognitive processes without interference, it is not limited by attention capacity and it can be unconscious or involuntary. Controlled processing is effortful, slow and prone to errors but -- at the same...

By (author) Rosa Angela Fabio

ISBN-13: 9781607418108 ; ISBN-10: 160741810X

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DNA Adducts: Formation, Detection & Mutagenesis (Hardback - 1 Apr 2010)

DNA Adducts
Numerous physical and chemical stress factors, endogenous or exogenous, challenge living organisms. Metabolisation processes generate highly reactive intermediates which can covalently bind to DNA, resulting in bulky addition products called "adducts." DNA adduct formation appears to be a general response of plants to organic chemical exposure, whether in controlled conditions or in the field. In...

Edited by Emerson Álvarez; Roberto Cunha

ISBN-13: 9781607414339 ; ISBN-10: 1607414333

Price: £107.50 £68.85 Not Available

Darwinian Sociocultural Evolution: Solutions to Dilemmas in Cultural and Social Theory (Hardback - 14 Jan 2010)

Darwinian Sociocultural Evolution
Addresses today’s major dilemmas in social scientific theory from the modern Darwinian sociocultural evolutionary approach. Social scientists can learn a lot from evolutionary biology - from systematics and principles of evolutionary ecology to theories of social interaction including competition, conflict and cooperation, as well as niche construction, complexity, eco-evo-devo, and the role of the individual in...

By (author) Marion Blute

ISBN-13: 9780521768931 ; ISBN-10: 0521768934

Price: £55.00 £44.00 UK delivery 2 to 3 days

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Darwinian Sociocultural Evolution: Solutions to Dilemmas in Cultural and Social Theory (Paperback / softback - 14 Jan 2010)

Darwinian Sociocultural Evolution
Addresses today’s major dilemmas in social scientific theory from the modern Darwinian sociocultural evolutionary approach. Social scientists can learn a lot from evolutionary biology - from systematics and principles of evolutionary ecology to theories of social interaction including competition, conflict and cooperation, as well as niche construction, complexity, eco-evo-devo, and the role of the individual in...

By (author) Marion Blute

ISBN-13: 9780521745956 ; ISBN-10: 0521745950

Price: £19.99 £17.99 UK delivery 2 to 3 days

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Mapping Species Distributions: Spatial Inference and Prediction (Hardback - 7 Jan 2010)

Mapping Species Distributions
Comprehensive summary of species distribution modeling methods integrating ecological and statistical models with spatial data, and a framework for implementation. Maps of species’ distributions or habitat suitability are required for many aspects of environmental research, resource management and conservation planning. These include biodiversity assessment, reserve design, habitat management and restoration,...

By (author) Janet Franklin

ISBN-13: 9780521876353 ; ISBN-10: 0521876354

Price: £70.00 £55.00 UK delivery 2 to 3 days

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Rivers in Time – The Search for Clues to Earth′s Mass Extinctions (Hardback - 2 Mar 2010)

Rivers in Time – The Search for Clues to Earth′s Mass Extinctions

By (author) PD Ward

ISBN-13: 9780231118620 ; ISBN-10: 0231118627

Price: £59.45 Not Available

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