Excitatory Amino Acids and the Cerebral Cortex - Softcover

9780262524964: Excitatory Amino Acids and the Cerebral Cortex

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0262524961 ISBN 13: 9780262524964

Publisher: Bradford Books, 1996

The thirty original contributions in this book provide an up-to-date, interdisciplinary account of current research activity in all aspects of excitatory amino acid transmitters, particularly glutamate and aspartate, in the context of the structure and function of the cerebral cortex in health and in disease. It has recently become clear that the excitatory amino acids and their receptors are critically linked to normal processes of development and synaptic transmission, and to learning and memory, as well as to identifiable disease processes such as Alzheimer's disease, epilepsy, and cortical damage due to stroke/ischemia. Moreover, the pharmacological nature and chemical structures of many of the receptors and binding sites for these synaptic mediators and their modulators are becoming known, thereby enabling the cloning of each receptor subtype. Such advances may help immeasurably in the identification of endogenous ligands for the amino acid receptors and the development of pharmaceuticals and other therapeutic interventions in coming years. The topics are dealt with from electrophysiological, biochemical, anatomical, pharmacological, clinical, and behavioral perspectives to provide a thorough account of the functional roles played by these compounds in the part of the brain dealing with higher processes. The material is broad-based yet presented in a style that allows clinical and basic scientists alike easy access to integrated material across chapters and between sections.

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About the Author:

Fiorenzo Conti is Professor, Institute of Human Physiology, University of Ancona, Italy. T. Philip Hicks is Senior Research Officer, Institute for Biological Sciences, National Research Council of Canada.

Review:

This book is very successful in being comprehensive in its treatment of current work on the biology of glutamatergic synaptic transmission in the neocortex, and will certainly take a prominent place in the field.

―German Barrionuevo, M.D., Associate Professor of Neuroscience, University of Pittsburgh

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