If you are looking for a compilation of texts addressing the potential force(s) to cause disruption of the brain machinery, your search is done. Despite the fact of any matter related to mind is a complicated subject, the author's trades made this book an easy reading. As consequence, even a junior investigator can run over each passage and get the necessary knowledge to go deeper in the subject. There is also a very useful bibliography list provided in the end.

• SECTION I: MECHANISMS OF BRAIN DAMAGE ; 1. Death and survival in the nervous system ; 2. Axotomy and mechanical damage ; 3. Metabolic damage ; 4. Inflammation and demyelination (with Neil Scolding) ; 5. Infection (with Roger Barker) ; 6. Neurodegenerative disease (with Harry Baker) ; SECTION II: DAMAGE LIMITATION ; 7. Neuroprotection ; 8. Steroids ; 9. Growth factors ; 10. Control of inflammation ; SECTION III: INTRINSIC MECHANISMS OF RECOVERY ; 11. Peripheral nerve regeneration ; 12. Failure of CNS regeneration ; 13. Anatomical plasticity ; 14. Biochemical plasticity ; 15. Remyelination ; SECTION IV: CLINICAL ASSESSMENT OF BRAIN DAMAGE ; 16. Coma (with Barbara Wilson) ; 17. Motor, sensory and autonomic failure (with Charlotte Behan) ; 18. Cognition (with Andrew Lawrence and B J Sahakian) ; 19. Neuropsychiatry (with German Berrios and Eugene Paykel) ; SECTION V: PHARMACOLOGY AND REHABILITATION ; 20. Pharmacological management (with Roger Barker) ; 21. Neuropsychological rehabilitation ; SECTION VI: STRUCTURAL REPAIR ; 22. Axon regeneration in the CNS ; 23. Primary neuronal grafts ; 24. Glial grafts ; 25. Stem cells ; 26. Gene therapy (with Stacey Efsthathiou) ; Appendix - specific diseases

If you are looking for a compilation of texts addressing the potential force(s) to cause disruption of the brain machinery, your search is done. Despite the fact of any matter related to mind is a complicated subject, the author's trades made this book an easy reading. As consequence, even a junior investigator can run over each passage and get the necessary knowledge to go deeper in the subject. There is also a very useful bibliography list provided in the end.

• SECTION I: MECHANISMS OF BRAIN DAMAGE ; 1. Death and survival in the nervous system ; 2. Axotomy and mechanical damage ; 3. Metabolic damage ; 4. Inflammation and demyelination (with Neil Scolding) ; 5. Infection (with Roger Barker) ; 6. Neurodegenerative disease (with Harry Baker) ; SECTION II: DAMAGE LIMITATION ; 7. Neuroprotection ; 8. Steroids ; 9. Growth factors ; 10. Control of inflammation ; SECTION III: INTRINSIC MECHANISMS OF RECOVERY ; 11. Peripheral nerve regeneration ; 12. Failure of CNS regeneration ; 13. Anatomical plasticity ; 14. Biochemical plasticity ; 15. Remyelination ; SECTION IV: CLINICAL ASSESSMENT OF BRAIN DAMAGE ; 16. Coma (with Barbara Wilson) ; 17. Motor, sensory and autonomic failure (with Charlotte Behan) ; 18. Cognition (with Andrew Lawrence and B J Sahakian) ; 19. Neuropsychiatry (with German Berrios and Eugene Paykel) ; SECTION V: PHARMACOLOGY AND REHABILITATION ; 20. Pharmacological management (with Roger Barker) ; 21. Neuropsychological rehabilitation ; SECTION VI: STRUCTURAL REPAIR ; 22. Axon regeneration in the CNS ; 23. Primary neuronal grafts ; 24. Glial grafts ; 25. Stem cells ; 26. Gene therapy (with Stacey Efsthathiou) ; Appendix - specific diseases