Book Description

Basic Neurochemistry: Molecular, Cellular and Medical Aspects, the outstanding and comprehensive classic text on neurochemistry, is now newly updated and revised in its Seventh Edition. This well-established text has been accepted worldwide as a resource for postgraduate trainees and teachers in neurology, psychiatry, and basic neuroscience, as well as for graduate and postgraduate students and instructors in the neurosciences. It is an excellent source of current information on basic biochemical processes in brain function and disease for qualifying examinations and continuing medical education.

Table of Contents

Section Editors
Contributors
Acknowledgments and History
Preface
Tribute to Pierre Morell

Part Ⅰ Cellular Neurochemistry and Neural Membranes
   1. Neurocellular anatomy
   2. Cell membrane structures and functions
   3. Lipids
   4. Myelin formation, structure and biochemistry
   5. Membrane transport
   6. Electrical excitability and ion channels
   7. Cell adhension molecules
   8. The cytoskeleton of neurons and glia
   9. Intracellular trafficking

Part Ⅱ Intercellular Signaling
   10. Synaptic transmission and cellular signalling : an overview
   11. Acetylcholine
   12. Catecholamines
   13. Serotinin
   14. Histamine
   15. Glutamate
   16. GABA and glycine
   17. Purinergic systems
   18. Peptides

Part Ⅲ Intracellular Signaling
   19. G proteins
   20. Phosphoinositides
   21. Cyclic nucleotides in the nervous system
   22. Calcium
   23. Serine and threonine phosphorylation
   24. Tyrosine phosphorylation

Part Ⅳ Growth, Development Differentiation
   25. Development
   26. Transcription factors in the central nervous system
   27. Growth factors
   28. Axonal transport
   29. Stem cells in the nervous system
   30. Axonal growth in the adult mammalian nervous system : regeneration and compensatory plasticity

Part Ⅴ Metabolism
   31. Energy metabolism of the brain
   32. Hypoxic-ischemic brain injury and oxidative stress
   33. Eicosanoids, docosanoids, platelet-activating factor and inflammation
   34. Metabolic encephalopathies
   35. Apoptosis and necrosis

Part Ⅵ Inherited and Neurodegenerative Diseases
   36. Peripheral neuropathy
   37. The epilepsies : phenotype and mechanisms
   38. Diseases involving myelin
   39. Genetics of neurodegenerative diseases
   40. Disorders of amino acid metabolism
   41. Lysosomal and peroxisomal diseases
   42. Diseases of carbohydrate, fatty acid and mitochondrial metabolism
   43. Disorders of muscle excitability
   44. Motor neuron diseases
   45. Neurodegenerative [alpha]-synucleinopathies and tauopathies
   46. Neurotransmitters and disorders of the basal ganglia
   47. Neurobiology of Alzheimer's disease
   48. Molecular basis of prion diseases

Part Ⅶ Sensory Transduction
   49. Molecular biology of vision
   50. Molecular biology of olfaction and taste
   51. Molecular biology of hearing and balance

Part Ⅷ Neural Processing and Behavior
   52. Endocrine effects on the brain and their relationship to behavior
   53. Learning and memory
   54. The neurochemistry of schizophrenia
   55. Neurobiology of severe mood and anxiety disorders
   56. Addiction
   57. Pain
   58. Neuroimaging

Glossary
Amino Acids in Proteins
Index