Publications
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Central Nervous System Metastases in Lung Cancer Patients: From Prevention to Diagnosis and Treatment
(2019)
Approximately 40% of lung cancer patients will develop central nervous system (CNS) metastases during the course of their disease. Most of these are brain metastases, but up to 10% will develop leptomeningeal metastases. ...
Central control of autonomic functions in health and disease
(2015)
The field of autonomic neuroscience research concentrates on those neural pathways and processes that ultimately modulate parasympathetic and sympathetic output to alter peripheral organ function. In the following ebook, ...
Amyloid-beta clearance in Alzheimer's disease
(2015)
Strong evidence continues to accumulate indicating that amyloid-beta (Aß) is a central part of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) pathogenesis in spite of the negative evidence coming from failed clinical trials. Therefore, mechanisms ...
Autophagy in plants and algae
(2015)
Autophagy (also known as macroautophagy) is an evolutionarily conserved process by which cytoplasmic components are nonselectively enclosed within a double-membrane vesicle known as the autophagosome and delivered to the ...
Advances in Research on Age in the Workplace and Retirement
(2018)
Shifts in the age composition of the workforce coupled with dynamic definitions of retirement represent important issues that influence work processes and, more generally, the experience of working across one’s career. For ...
Awareness shaping or shaped by prediction and postdiction
(2015)
We intuitively believe that we are aware of the external world as it is. Unfortunately, this is not entirely true. In fact, the capacity of our sensory system is too small to veridically perceive the world. To overcome ...
Avoidance: From Basic Science to Psychopathology
(2016)
Coping has a myriad of facets: knowledge concerning the circumstances of threats to emotional and physical well being, the ability to meet immediate needs to mitigate, the potential for recurrence, the ability to apply ...
Better Together: A Joined-Up Psychological Approach to Health, Well-Being, and Rehabilitation
(2016)
Health and well-being is best understood in terms of a combination of biological, psychological, and social factors. But how ‘social’ is the biopsychosocial model when applied to mental health and rehabilitation? Psychology ...
Cell and molecular signaling, and transport pathways involved in growth factor control of synaptic development and function
(2015)
Brain derived neurotophic factor (BDNF) and its receptor tropomyosin receptor kinase B (TrkB) signaling has been extensively studied for its roles in the central nervous system (CNS) ranging from cell survival, axonal and ...
Celebrating Twenty Years of the Brazilian Symposium on Cardiovascular Physiology
(2017)
This e-book is dedicated to the celebration of 20 years of the Brazilian Symposium on Cardiovascular Physiology. In 1996 groups from the School of Medicine of Ribeirao Preto, University of Sao Paulo (FMRP-USP) and from the ...