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Edited and authored by a wealth of international experts in neuroscience and related disciplines, the aim behind this key new resource is to offer medical students and graduate researchers around the world a comprehensive introduction and overview of modern neuroscience.℗ Neuroscience research is certain to prove a vital element in combating mental illness in its various incarnations, a strategic battleground in the future of medicine, ℗ as the prevalence of mental disorders is becoming better understood each year. Hundreds of millions of people worldwide are affected by mental, behavioral, neurological and substance use disorders. The World Health Organization estimated in 2002 that 154 million people globally suffer from depression and 25 million people from schizophrenia; 91 million people are affected by alcohol use disorders and 15 million by drug use disorders. A more recent WHO report shows that 50 million people suffer from epilepsy and 24 million from Alzheimer ́ s and other dementias. Because neuroscience takes the etiology of disease ́ the complex interplay between biological, psychological, and sociocultural factors ́ as its object of inquiry, it is increasingly valuabl

Author

Pfaff, Donald W.

Publisher

Springer New York : Imprint : Springer

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781461419976