Synopses & Reviews
Essential compendium on plasticity of the human brain for clinical neurophysiologists, neurologists, psychiatrists and neuroscientists.
Synopsis
Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) has opened up new and fascinating avenues to study neural plasticity. This book, written by the world's leading experts in the field, is an essential compendium on plasticity of the human brain in health and disease, for clinical neurophysiologists, neurologists, psychiatrists and neuroscientists.
Table of Contents
1. The nature and mechanisms of plasticity M. Rioult-Pedotti and J. P. Donoghue; 2. Techniques of transcranial magnetic stimulation J. C. Rothwell; 3. Developmental plasticity of the corticospinal system J. Eyre; 4. Practice induced plasticity in the human motor cortex J. Classen and L. Cohen; 5. Skill learning E. Robertson, H. Theoret and A. Pascual-Leone; 6. Stimulation induced plasticity in the human motor cortex J. Classen and U. Ziemann; 7. Lesions of cortex and post-stroke reorganisation P. M. Rossini and J. Liepert; 8. Lesions of the periphery and the spinal cord M. Angel, N. Davey, P. Ellaway and R. Chen; 9. Functional relevance of cortical plasticity P. Celnik and L. G. Cohen; 10. Therapeutic uses of rTMS C. Epstein and J. Rothwell; 11. Rehabilitation D. Gow, C. Fraser and S. Hamdy; 12. New questions M. Hallett, E. M. Wassermann and L. C. Cohen.