Author: Waxman, Stephen G.
Title: Form and Function in the Brain and Spinal Cord: Perspectives of a Neurologist
Description: Cambridge [MA], MIT Press, (2001). orig.cloth. 23x18cm, xxv,502 pp. Textual photos & diagrams.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: Contents: Building a Smart Nerve Fiber: Relative Conduction Velocities of Small Myelinated & Non-myelinated Fibres in the Central Nervous System; The Bauhaus in the Brain: Morphpological Correlates of Functional Differentiation of Nodes of Ranvier Along Single Fibres in the Neurogenic Electric Organ of the Knife Fish Sternarchus; What Is It? Where Is It? Introduction to Clinical Thinking: The Relationship between Neuroanatomy & Neurology; Seeing the Brain: The Impacts of Modern Brain Imaging: Acute Confusional States with Right Middle Cerebral Artery Infarctions; Novels, Poems & Cosmic Murals: Hypergraphia in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy; Stockings, Gloves & Meaningless Chants: Diabetic Truncal Polyneuropathy; Self-repair in the Nervous System: Conduction in Myelinated, Unmyelinated & Demyelinated Fibres; Conduction Through Demyelinated Plaques in Multiple Sclerosis: Computer Simulations of Facilitation by Short Internodes; Reorganization of the Axon Membrane in Demyelinated Peripheral Nerve Fibres: Morphological Evidence; Current Concepts on Neurology: Membranes, Myelin, & the Pathophysiology of Multiple Sclerosis; Silent Damage: Evoked Potentials in Suspected Multiple Sclerosis: Diagnostic Value & Prediction of Clinical Course; Temporal Profile Resembling TIA in the Setting of Cerebral Infarction; Hide & Seek Along the Brain's Highways: Absence of Potassium Conductance in Central Myelinated Axons; Development of 4-AP & TEA Sensitivities in Mammalian Myelinated Nerve Fibres ...

Keywords: Central Nervous System, Neurology, Brain Anatomy, Pathophysiology, Physiology, Neurology, Spinal Cord, Multiple Sclerosis, Pathology