Author: Jean De Vellis

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Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 9780387303604

Few human enterprises have the impact and the influence that neuroscience has. We can now examine our highest functions and malfunctions, including the processes of learning, aging, and behavior. The knowledge gained gives mankind previously unimaginable power for improvement, but also great responsibility that the knowledge be used for beneficial, not harmful, purposes. The Handbook of Neurochemistry and Molecular Neurobiology focuses on available knowledge in neurochemistry and molecular biology of the nervous system. Successful research requires interdisciplinary teamwork, where the lines between neurochemistry and related areas are obscure and need to be crossed. This is reflected in the selection of the various volumes we know others could have been added, and it is likely that each volume could have been expanded to a set of volumes and that a detailed coverage of the field would require over 100 volumes. This may not have been practical or preferable, and it may be better to have a shorter overview of essential information, with guiding of the reader, if necessary, seeking more details in our ever-expanding and developing area of research. This edition, unlike the previous ones, will not be a static, but more a living set of chapters that will be updated. If needed, new chapters added on the website, even after the appearance of the printed version. The Handbook is intended to be a service to the neuroscience community, to help in finding available and useful information, to point out gaps in our knowledge, and to encourage continued studies. It represents the valuable contributions of the many authors of the chapters and the guidance of the editors and mostimportant, it represents support for research in this discipline. Based on the rapid advances in the years since the second edition, we can be very optimistic and hopeful that successful therapy for pathology, neural and behavioral (since they are interconnected), and perhaps even an expansion of learning, will be achieved, and described in the next edition.