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Dewey Decimal Number: 573
EAN num: 9780824324292
ISBN number: 0824324293
Label: Annual Reviews
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Printing Date: 2006-07
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I made it out of New Orleans after Katrina with a backpack. In it I brought one book--this one! Before getting to the articles, I should mention that the '05 ARN has some major new design features. Most importantly, there are MANY more colour illustrations which are now integrated into the text, instead of being on separate plates as in previous volumes. The paper stock is heavier and of higher quality. The book dimensions are also somewhat different. These changes make for a significant enhancement of reading pleasure.
With regard to the review articles, they are of course of the usual high quality associated with ARN and on a broad spectrum of topics. As a neurologist, the most clinically relevant ones to me included "Molecular Pathophysiology of Parkinson's Disease"--an excellent overview of the recent advances in the genetics and such topics as ubiquitin-proteasome system and mitochondrial dysfunction in PD--an article by Simon Baron-Cohen on autism, and a very interesting new theory on the function of the locus coeruleus, which speculates that its two major functions are to enhance task performance (in phasic firing mode) and to stimulate the organism to disengage and look elsewhere for reward (in tonic firing mode). A controversial lead-off article by Toga and Thompson is on the genetics of brain structure and intelligence, outlining new approaches to the always topical questions regarding the hereditability and definition of intelligence. In the basic science type articles, I especially liked the one on Dendritic Computation--instantiating the properties of dendrites into model neurons in neural network systems is going to be of major importance. So all in all this new ARN sets a new standard in the distinguished history of these volumes.
By the way, you can get it for about $100 cheaper if you subscribe to the ARN series in advance. Even if you're an academic type and have acess to it through the library it's worthwhile owning your own volume. I should also mention that by buying the volume you also get online access, with the usual advantages of HTML format with clickable references to get Medline abstracts and so forth, and downloadable in .pdf format so you can cut and paste illustrations for talks. But I'm an old-fashioned type, and for sustained reading a book still is the clear winner over a computer screen.
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