Neuroimmunity
A New Science That Will Revolutionize How We Keep Our Brains Healthy and Young
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PROSE Awards Honorable Mention, Biomedicine & Neuroscience category
In the past, the brain was considered an autonomous organ, self-contained and completely separate from the body's immune system. But over the past twenty years, neuroimmunologist Michal Schwartz, together with her research team, not only has overturned this misconception but has brought to light revolutionary new understandings of brain health and repair.
In this book Schwartz describes her research journey, her experiments, and the triumphs and setbacks that led to the discovery of connections between immune system and brain. Schwartz, with Anat London, also explains the significance of the findings for future treatments of brain disorders and injuries, spinal cord injuries, glaucoma, depression, and other conditions such as brain aging and Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases.
Scientists, physicians, medical students, and all readers with an interest in brain function and its relationship to the immune system in health and disease will find this book a valuable resource. With general readers in mind, the authors provide a useful primer to explain scientific terms and concepts discussed in the book.
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Release date
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Kindle Book
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OverDrive Read
- ISBN: 9780300216561
- File size: 5012 KB
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EPUB ebook
- ISBN: 9780300216561
- File size: 5571 KB
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Languages
- English
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Reviews
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Starred review from October 1, 2015
As more of the world's population lives beyond age 70, people are increasingly concerned about how to keep the brain young and functioning. Schwartz and her former graduate assistant London believe that a variety of factors influence the brain's health, but the focus of this book is the impact of the immune system on the organ. In fact, it was Schwartz's team of researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science that overturned the belief that under normal conditions a barrier kept immune cells out of the brain; their research on how the immune system interacts with the brain led to new therapies for victims of spinal cord injuries, glaucoma, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and deeper understandings of the connection between the immune system and ADHD, autism, and memory impairments in pregnant women. VERDICT Readable and informative, this book is a vital resource for the reader seeking an update on current neuroimmunology research.--Beth Dalton, Littleton, CO
Copyright 2015 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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