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Functional recovery in neurological disease

Title
Functional recovery in neurological disease / editor, Stephen G. Waxman.
Publication
New York : Raven Press, ©1988.

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Additional Authors
Waxman, Stephen G.
Description
xxi, 617 pages : illustrations; 26 cm.
Series Statement
Advances in neurology ; v. 47
Uniform Title
Advances in neurology ; v. 47.
Subject
  • Nervous system > Diseases
  • Nervous system > Regeneration
  • Central Nervous System Diseases > rehabilitation
  • Central Nervous System > physiology
  • Nervous System Diseases
  • Nerve Regeneration
  • Regeneration
  • Zentralnervensystem
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographies and index.
Contents
Functional recovery in diseases of the nervous system -- Clinical aspects of PNS regeneration -- Membrane organization and myelin remodeling in regenerting axons -- Voltage gradients and ionic currents in injured and regenerated axons -- Regeneration of pyramidal tract axons -- Glial scar: its bearing on axonal elongation and transplantation approaches to CNS repair -- Residual motor functions in spinal cord injury -- Clinical course and electrophysiology of multiple sclerosis -- Biophysical mechanisms of impulse conduction in demyelinated axons -- Remyelinatin in the central nervous system and the peripheral nervous sysem -- Immunological basis for functional recovery in neurologic diseases -- Clinical observations on recovery from storke -- What do we learn from recovery from aphasia? -- Anatomical organization of multiple motor areas in the frontal lobe: implications for recovery of function -- Synaptic plasticity and functional stabilization in the hippocampal formation: possible role in Alzheimer's disease -- Physiological aspects of synaptic plasticity: the Ia/motoneuron connection as a model -- Patterns of sprouting and implications for recovery of function -- Recruitment of ineffective synapses after injury -- Spasticity as an adaptation to pyramidal tract injury -- Control of locomotion in vertebrates: spinal and supraspinal mechanisms -- Neuronal replacement by intracerebral neural implants in animal models of neurodegenerative disease -- Growth factors -- Gangliosides as a possible treatment affecting neuronal repair processes -- Role of thyrotropin-releasing hormone and opiate receptor antagonists in limiting central nervous system injury -- Stimulation of neuronal regeneration and development by steady electrical fields -- Providing motor control for the handicapped: a fusion of modern neuroscience, bioengineering, and rehabilitation -- Prospects for a cognitive orthosis.
ISBN
  • 0881673277
  • 9780881673272
LCCN
87016541
OCLC
  • ocm16130728
  • 16130728
  • SCSB-1709242
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library