Overview
- Covers major causes of nerve cell death including strokes, seizures, etc
- Material from previous edition has been comprehensively updates
- Includes 3 new chapters
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The Second Edition contains 11 thoroughly updated chapters and 3 additional chapters that did not appear in the previous edition.
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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General Considerations
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Focal Cerebral Ischemia
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Transient Global Cerebral Ischemia
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Hypoglycemic Neuronal Injury
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Seizure-Induced Neuronal Death
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Dr. Denson Fujikawa is an Adjunct Professor of Neurology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, a member of the Brain Research Institute at UCLA and a Staff Neurologist at the Department of Veterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System. His interest in mechanisms of nerve cell death in the brain began during a two-year epilepsy research fellowship with Dr. Claude Wasterlain, from 1981 to 1983. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Neurology and is a member of the American Epilepsy Society, American Neurological Association, International Society for Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism and the Society for Neuroscience.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Acute Neuronal Injury
Book Subtitle: The Role of Excitotoxic Programmed Cell Death Mechanisms
Editors: Denson G. Fujikawa
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77495-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-77494-7Published: 19 September 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-08468-4Published: 14 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-77495-4Published: 05 July 2018
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XII, 215
Number of Illustrations: 15 b/w illustrations, 24 illustrations in colour
Topics: Neurosciences, Neurology, Pathology, Cell Biology, Neurobiology, Psychiatry