All ebooks in the collection "Research and Perspectives in Neurosciences" - Springer

Genome Editing in Neurosciences

Fred Gage , Rudolf Jaenisch , Feng Zhang

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. CRISPR-Cas9 is a rapid, efficient, versatile and relatively cheap method for dissecting the molecular pathways that are the basis of life, as well as for investigating and potentially rectifying faults in these...

Micro-, Meso- and Macro-Dynamics of the Brain

György Buzsáki , Yves Christen

This book brings together leading investigators who represent various aspects of brain dynamics with the goal of presenting state-of-the-art current progress and address future developments. The individual chapters cover several fascinating facets of contemporary...

Micro-, Meso- and Macro-Connectomics of the Brain

Yves Christen , Henry Kennedy , David C. Van Essen

This book has brought together leading investigators who work in the new arena of brain connectomics.This includes ‘macro-connectome’ efforts to comprehensively chart long-distance pathways and functional networks; ‘micro-connectome’ efforts to identify every neuron,...

New Frontiers in Social Neuroscience

Yves Christen , Jean Decety

Traditionally, neuroscience has considered the nervous system as an isolated entity and largely ignored influences of the social environments in which humans and many animal species live. However, there is mounting evidence that the social environment affects behavior...

Programmed Cells from Basic Neuroscience to Therapy

Yves Christen , Fred H. Gage

The recent advances in Programming Somatic Cell (PSC) including induced Pluripotent Stem Cells (iPS) and Induced Neuronal phenotypes (iN), has changed our experimental landscape and opened new possibilities.The advances in PSC have provided an important tool for the...

Epigenetics, Brain and Behavior

Yves Christen , Paolo Sassone Corsi

Recent years have seen spectacular advances in the filed of epigenetics. These have attracted the interest of researchers in many fields and evidence connecting epigentic regulation to brain functions has been accumulationg. Neurons daily convert a variety of external...

Characterizing Consciousness: From Cognition to the Clinic?

Yves Christen , Stanislas Dehaene

Fifteen of the foremost scientists in this field presented testable theoretical models of consciousness and discussed how our understanding of the role that consciousness plays in our cognitive processes is being refined with some surprising results.

Macro Roles for MicroRNAs in the Life and Death of Neurons

Bart De Strooper

Memories: Molecules and Circuits

B. Bontempi , Alcino J. Silva

Memory can be typically de?ned as the brain function enabling the encoding, storage and retrieval of sensory information. In operational terms, this de?nition implies that our central nervous system not only processes various sensory modalities, be they visual, tactile,...