Plasticity in Nerve Cell Function

This book summarizes the most recent data on the molecular and cellular mechanisms that determine the unique properties of nerve cells-their ability to differentiate, establish connections to each other, and to form the nervous system with its immense capability for receiving, analyzing, and storing information about one's external and internal world. The author underscores the key role of calcium ions in this process, as well as nervous system function in aging and neural pathology. Drawing from significant new research that has never been published, Plasticity in Nerve Cell Function will be of interest to researchers and students with an interest in the fields of neurophysiology, cellular physiology, biophysics, and neurochemistry. It will also be valuable to researchers and medical doctors with an interest in neuropathology and aging.

About the author

Professor Platon Kostyuk is Director of the Physiological Institute of Kiev State University, Ukraine. His main research interests are neurophysiology - in particular synaptic processes in the spinal cord - and cell biophysics.

Summary

This book summarizes the most recent data on the molecular and cellular mechanisms which determine the unique properties of nerve cells - their ability to differentiate, establish connections to each other, and to form the nervous system with its immense capability for receiving, analysing, and storing information about our external and internal world. The key role of calcium ions in this process is particularly explored, along with nervous system function in aging and neural pathology. The author, based at a high-profile research unit in the Ukraine, is able to draw on significant new research which has not been widely published. Plasticity in nerve cell function will be of interest to researchers and research students in the fields of neurophysiology, cellular physiology, biophysics, and neurochemistry in particular. It will also be of relevance to researchers and medical doctors interested in neuropathology and aging.

Additional text

"...a good starting point into the field." Brain, 1999

Product details

• Authors: P. G. Kostyuk, Platon Kostyuk, Platon G. Kostyuk
• Publisher: Oxford Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.11.1998
• EAN: 9780198524182
• ISBN: 978-0-19-852418-2
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 243 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 371 g
• Illustrations: 2 halftones, line figures
• Series: Monographs of the Physiologica; Monographs of the Physiological Society; Monographs of the Physiological Society; Monographs of the Physiologica
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Neuroscience, PHYSIOLOGY, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Cell Biology, MEDICAL / Physiology, PSYCHOLOGY / Neuropsychology, PSYCHOLOGY / Physiological Psychology, Physiological & neuro-psychology, biopsychology, Neurosciences, Physiological and neuro-psychology, biopsychology, Cellular biology (cytology)