Neurosciences at the Postgenomic Era

In this new volume in the series Research and Perspectives in Neurosciences the authors have presented and discussed their findings in the fields of speech and language disorders, X-linked mental retardation, gene therapy in the CNS, memory and learning disorders and other fields.

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Introduction: Neurogenomining.-Memory and the regulation of chromatin structure.- The Hebbosome hypothesis of learning: Signaling complexes decode synaptic patterns of activity and distribute plasticity.- Analysis of brain disorders using DNA microarrays.- Genetically altered mice as models to understand brain disorders.-Neurodegenerative diseases: Insights from Drosophila and mouse models.- Human behavioral genomics.- The genetic basis of a severe speech and language disorder.- Genetics and physiopathology of X-linked mental retardation.- Gene therapy: Medicine of the 21st century.- Genetherapy in the central nervous system.- Subject index.