Amino Acid Availability and Brain Function in Health and Disease

Huether, Gerald (Editor)

ISBN 10: 3540185631 / ISBN 13: 9783540185635

Published by Springer-Verlag, New York, 1988

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Bumping on corners (especially head of spine). Binding is tight. Prior owner's embossed stamp on front and rear fly leaf pages. Pages are clean and look to be free from writing and highlighting.

Seller Inventory # 9380

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Amino Acid Availability and Brain Function in Health and Disease
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag, New York
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3540185631
• ISBN 13: 9783540185635
• Binding: Hardcover, 487 pages
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Medicine
  • Science

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Synopsis

The picture on the following page is being reproduced here, at the request of the partici­ pants in the Advanced Research Workshop "Amino Acid Availability and Brain Function in Health and Disease". I displayed this limewood carving, entitled "Neurochemistry", during my closing remarks to this extraordinarily stimulating and productive workshop so ably organized by my collaborator Dr. Gerald Huether. We scientists need two sturdy legs to carry us through all the twists and turns of our academic careers. We should also have, as it were, a reserve leg handy, to help us stay upright when this career ends. My "third leg" is wood carving. The idea for "Neurochemis­ try" came to me in the plane carrying me to the congress of the International Neuro­ chemical Society in Jerusalem. We need the hands for our meticulous experimental work, and at least one ear to listen to the messages our neurons send us. A few years ago it would have been premature to hold a workshop on this subject. Now, however, the time was just right to allow an overview of the status of current re­ search, and to point out the promising new openings it has created. There is no doubt that the book to be published as a result of this workshop will be, for the next years at least, the standard text on the subject. Hearty thanks to all speakers for their brilliant con­ tributions and to all participants for the lively, uninhibited and stimulating discussion.