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Textbook of Neural Repair and Rehabilitation, Volume I: Neural Repair and Plasticity & Volume II: Medical Neurorehabilitation Michael Selzer, Stephanie Clarke, Leonardo Cohen, Pamela Duncan, and Fred Gage, editors. Published by Cambridge University Press; Copyright © 2006 Volume I: 687 pages, $190.00; Volume II: 753 pages, $190.00.
This book is about the fascinating science and practice of neurological rehabilitation, presented in two volumes. These two volumes are designed to be used either separately or as an integrated whole.
Volume I: Neural Repair and Plasticity introduces the reader in a comprehensive but not at all long-winded way to the basic sciences relevant to neurorehabilitation and is subdivided into two main sections. Section A: Neural Plasticity starts off with an overview of morphological and molecular mechanisms of nerve regeneration as well as elementary processes of learning and memory. By addressing plasticity mechanisms in the spinal cord and in somatosensory, motor, visual, and auditory...