Main description:

This newest volume of Advances in Neurobiology deals with the Neurochemistry of disease, with chapters covering both human diseases and animal "model" diseases.

Contents:

Chapter 1: Mechanisms versus Diagnoses
John Blass

Chapter 2: Molecular Mechanisms of Neuronal Death
Carol Troy

Chapter 3: Animal Models of Neurodegenerative Diseases
Mohamed Jaber

Chapter 4: Vitamins and Vitamin Deficiencies
Roger Butterworth

Chapter 5: Brain Edema in Neurological Disease
G.A. Rosenberg, Eduardo Candelario-Jalil & Saeid Taheri

Chapter 6: Pathology of Monoamine Transporters
Eric Barker

Chapter 7: Glutamate and Glutamine in Brain Disorders
Arne Schousboe

Chapter 8: The X-linked Mental Retardation
Linda Van Aelst

Chapter 9: Cognitive Deficits in Neurodegenerative Disorders
Ivan Bodis-Wollner & Herman Moreno

Chapter 10: NFkappaB in Brain Diseases
C.-X. Gong

Chapter 11: Trinucleotide-Expansion Diseases
Arthur JL Cooper

Chapter 12: Neuroinflammation
David Lawrence

Chapter 13: Neurochemistry of Autism
S.H. Fatemi & T. Folsom

Chapter 14: RNA Pathologies in Neurological Disorders
Kinji Ohno & Akio Masuda

Chapter 15: Pain
Gyongyi Horvath

Chapter 16: Biology of Demyelinating Diseases
Danielle Pham-Dihn & Nicole Baumann

Chapter 17: Brain Protein Oxidation and Modification for Good or Bad in Alzheimer's Disease
D.A. Butterfield

Chapter 18: Oxidative Stress and Alzheimer Disease: Mechanisms and Therapeutic Opportunities
Mark- Smith

Chapter 19: Tau and Tauopathies
Robert Mathew and PS Mathuranath

Chapter 20: Zinc, Zinc Transport and Sequestration Proteins in the Brain in the Progression of Alzheimer's Disease
Mark A. Lovell

Chapter 21: The Genetics of Alzheimer's Disease and Parkinson's Disease
Lynn M. Bekris, Chang-En Yu, Thomas D. Bird & Debby Tsuang

Chapter 22: Nicotine Receptors in Brain Diseases
J.A. Stitzel

Chapter 23: Lysosomal Storage Disorders
Gregory M. Pastores

Chapter 24: Genetic signaling in glioblastoma multiforme: a current overview
W.J. Lukiw & F. Culicchia