Brain Slices in Basic and Clinical Research

The topics covered in the book's 17 chapters vary from mechanisms of synaptic plasticity as the basis of memory processes, chaos and synaptic variability, brain calcium currents, glutamate receptors, pathophysiology of excitotoxins, cerebral hypoxia-ischemia, neuronal injury, and free radicals to optical methods of measuring brain metabolism, voltammetry in brain slices, calcium imaging, patch-clamp recording and application of macromolecules through patch clamp pipettes in brain slices, intracellular double labeling of various neuronal populations, and the use of brain slices in teaching neurophysiological methods.