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List of Contributors | p. v |
Preface | p. ix |
Acknowledgments | p. xi |
Stem Cells | |
Cell transplantation strategies for retinal repair | p. 3 |
Strategies for retinal repair: cell replacement and regeneration | p. 23 |
The rostral migratory stream and olfactory system: smelt, disease and slippery cells | p. 33 |
Identifying and enumerating neural stem ceils: application to aging and cancer | p. 43 |
Transgenic reporter mice as tools for studies of transplantability and connectivity of dopamine neuron precursors in fetal tissue grafts | p. 53 |
Immunotherapy and Vaccination Therapy | |
Developing novel immunogens for a safe and effective Alzheimer's disease vaccine | p. 83 |
Innate immunity in the nervous system | p. 95 |
Neuroinnammation in spinal cord injury: therapeutic targets for neuroprotection and regeneration | p. 125 |
Toll-like receptors in the CNS: implications for neurodegeneration and repair | p. 139 |
Gene Therapy | |
Gene therapy and transplantation in the retinofugal pathway | p. 151 |
Controlled dissemination of AAV vectors in the primate brain | p. 163 |
From microsurgery to nanosurgery: how viral vectors may help repair the peripheral nerve | p. 173 |
Gene therapy for neurodegenerative diseases based on lentiviral vectors | p. 187 |
Trophic factors therapy in Parkinson's disease | p. 187 |
Pharmacotherapy | |
Progesterone as a neuroprotective factor in traumatic and ischemic brain injury | p. 219 |
Estrogen and testosterone therapies in multiple sclerosis | p. 239 |
Treatment of retinal diseases with VEGF antagonists | p. 253 |
Pharmacological modification of the extracellular matrix to promote regeneration of the injured brain and spinal cord | p. 269 |
The placebo response: neurobiological and clinical issues of neurological relevance | p. 283 |
Neuroprostheses | |
Brain-computer interfaces: an overview of the hardware to record neural signals from the cortex | p. 297 |
Artificial vision: needs, functioning, and testing of a retinal electronic prosthesis | p. 317 |
Progress in restoration of hearing with the auditory brainstem implant | p. 333 |
Microstimulation of visual cortex to restore vision | p. 347 |
Deep Brain Stimulation, FES and TMS | |
Functional neurosurgery for movement disorders: a historical perspective | p. 379 |
Recovery of control of posture and locomotion after a spinal cord injury: solutions staring us in the face | p. 393 |
Deep brain stimulation in obsessive-compulsive disorder | p. 419 |
The use of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) for the treatment of spasticity | p. 429 |
Mechanisms of Spontaneous Plasticity and Regeneration | |
Calcium signaling and the development of specific neuronal connections | p. 443 |
Remyelination in multiple sclerosis | p. 453 |
Magnetic resonance techniques to quantify tissue damage, tissue repair, and functional cortical reorganization in multiple sclerosis | p. 465 |
MRI of neuronal network structure, function, and plasticity | p. 483 |
The eighteenth C.U. Ariëns Kappers lecture: an introduction | p. 497 |
Molecular control of brain plasticity and repair | p. 501 |
Subject Index | p. 511 |
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