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The workings of the brain have long held a fascination for scientists. Yet, faced as they have been with the obvious anatomical and biochemical complexity of the brain, understanding its functions--more than superficially--has seemed an impossible goal. The authors of the essays in this volume, acknowledged experts in their specialties, have illustrated the power of molecular biology to dissect the molecular functioning of the brain. The volume has related essays on neurotransmitters and their receptors, aspects of neuronal development and neurodegeneration, the molecular biology of opiate action, and the concept of neuronal networks in the olfactory system. It continues with essays on some of the major healthcare problems that can be expected to yield to analysis by molecular genetical approaches--neurodegenerative and affective disorders such as schizophrenia, Alzheimer's disease, spongiform encephalopathies, prion diseases, and trinucleotide expansion disorders. The volume concludes first with an exciting account of how molecular biology is beginning to explain a phenomenon as complex as memory and, finally, a thought-provoking essay on future developments in the field.
Originally published in 1999.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- Authors
- Abbreviations
- 1 Molecular Cues That Guide the Development of Neural Connectivity by Guy Tear
- 2 Understanding Neurotransmitter Receptors: Molecular Biology-Based Strategies by Mark Wheatley
- 3 Molecular Analysis of Neurotransmitter Release by Giampietro Schiavo and Gudrun Stenbeck
- 4 Mitochondria in the Life and Death of Neurons by Samantha L. Budd and David G. Nicholls
- 5 Neuro-Regeneration: Plasticity for Repair and Adaptation by Pico Caroni
- 6 A Molecular Basis for Opiate Action by Dominique Massotte and Brigitte L. Kieffer
- 7 Gases as Neurotransmitters by Jane E. Haley
- 8 Molecular Biology of Olfactory Receptors by Yitzhak Pilpel, Alona Sosinsky and Doron Lancet
- 9 Pathology and Drug Action in Schizophrenia: Insights from Molecular Biology by Philip G. Strange
- 10 Genetics of Alzheimer's Disease by Michael Hutton, Jordi Pérez-Tur and John Hardy
- 11 Use of Brain Grafts to Study the Pathogenesis of Prion Diseases by Adriano Aguzzi, Michael A. Klein, Christine Musahl, Alex J. Raeber, Thomas Blättlery Ivan Hegyi, Rico Trigg and Sebastian Brandner
- 12 Pathological Mechanisms in Huntington's Disease and Other Polyglutamine Expansion Diseases by Astrid Lunkes, Yvon Trottier and Jean-Louis Mandel
- 13 The Matter of Mind: Molecular Control of Memory by Emily P. Huang and Charles F. Stevens
- 14 Future Developments by Susan Greenfield
- Subject Index