CNS Regeneration: Basic Science and Clinical Advances

CNS Regeneration, 2nd ed focuses on leading current neurological disease
models and methods for promoting central nervous system re generation. The book reviews key features of central nervou s system injury and degeneration, then unites advances in n euroscience with novel medical strategies. Therapies that are currently being applied in clinical trials for stroke and spinal cord injury, as well as neurological diseases such as Parkinson s disease, Alzheimer s disease, and Huntington s disease, are reviewed by experts in the field of basic and clinical neuroscience.

Organized into multiple sections, section on e focuses on responses of the nervous system to cellular an d axonal insults, identifying issues critical to mediating nervous syste m repair. Responses of neurons, axons, and glia to injury a re described together with the deleterious effects of facto rs such as free radicals and excitotoxins. Section two identifies tools for promoting regeneration of the CNS including neurotrophi