Brain Damage and Repair: From Molecular Research to Clinical Therapy

Brain Damage and Repair: From Molecular Research to Clinical Therapy
Author: T. Herdegen, J. Delgado-García
Published by Springer Netherlands
ISBN: 978-90-481-6538-4
DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-2541-6

Table of Contents:

• The Aging Brain — the Burden of Life (?)
• Gene Expression and Its Regulation in Neurons
• Morphological Peculiarities of the Neuron
• Synaptic Plasticity: Hyperexcitability and Synaptic Silencing
• The Axonal Burden
• The Self-Destruction of Neurons Physiological and Pathophysiological Decisions for the Functional Integrity
• The Organelles, I: Mitochondrial Failure And Neurodegeneration
• The Organelles II: Endoplasmic Reticulum and its Overload
• Transcriptional Dysfunctions as Pathogenic Mechanism of Neurodegenerative Diseases
• Formation of Radicals
• Axon Guidance and Repulsion. The Molecular Code of Social Life in the Brain
• Microglia and the Cerebral Defence System
• Generation and Differentiation of Astrocytes During Central Nervous System Development And Injury
• Oligodendrocytes in Health and Disease
• The Myelin Glial Cell of the Peripheral Nervous System: The Schwann Cell
• The Müller Glia: Role in Neuroprotection
• Neural Plasticity and Regeneration: Myths and Expectations
• Neuronal Protection Against Oxidative Damage
• Functional Recovery in the Peripheral and Central Nervous System After Injury
• Neural Plasticity and Cell Biology of Learning