Neurotherapy : progress in restorative neuroscience and neurology : proceedings of the 25th international summer school of brain research, held at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, August 25-28, 2008 / edited by Joost Verhaagen [and six others].

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Section - Stem Cells; ; Jeffrey Macklis - Boston, USA Stem cell recruitement in the adult cortex following spinal cord injury; Scott Whittemore - Louisville, USA Application of embryonic stem cells in spinal cord repair; Peter Burbach - Utrecht, The Netherlands Molecular programming of stem cells into mesodiencephalic dopaminergic neurons; Ole Isacson - Belmont, USA Stem cell transplantation in Parkinson disease; Robin Ali - London, UK Retinal repair by transplantation of photoreceptors; Thomas Reh - Seattle, USA Efficient generation of retinal progenitor cells from human embryonic stem cells; Maurice Curtis - Gotenborg, Sweden Discovery of a rostral migratory stream in the adult human brain; Magdalena Götz - Munich, Germany Glial cells as stem cells ? a new view on reactive gliosis; Urban Lendahl - Stockholm, Sweden Molecular regulation of stem cell differentiation; Anders Björklund - Lund,

Sweden Cell and gene therapy repair stategies for Parkinson disease; ; Section Immunotherapy and vaccination therapy; ; Roger Nitsch - Zurich, Switzerland Immunotherapy of Alzheimer's disease; Cynthia Lemere, Boston, USA Developing novel immunogens for effective and safe Alzheimer disease vaccine; Frank Baas - Amsterdam, the Netherlands Complement therapy promotes peripheral nerve regeneration; Philip Popovich - Columbus, USA T-cell and macrophage involvement in neuroregeneration; Hans van Noort - Rijswijk, The Netherlands Toll-like receptors in the CNS: implications for neurodegeneration and repair; ; Section Gene Therapy; ; Alan Harvey - Perth, Australia Gene therapy and transplantation in CNS repair: the visual system; Raymond Bartus - San Diego, USA Gene therapy for Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease; Krys Bankiewicz - San Francisco, USA AAV-AADC gene therapy for Parkinson disease; Martijn Tannemaat - Amsterdam,

the Netherlands Promoting regeneration of injured peripheral nerves and avulsed spinal ventral rootsby gene therapy; Mimoun Azzouz - Sheffield, UKGene therapy for ALS based on retrograde delivery of transgenes with equine LV vectors; Bill Hauswirth - Gainesville, USA Cone photoreceptor targeted gene therapy; ; Pharmacotherapy; ; Iqbal Sayeed - Atlanta, USA Progesterone as a neuroprotective factor in traumatic and ischemic brain injury; Stefan Gold - Los Angeles, USA Oestrogen and testosterone replacement therapies in neurologic and psychiatric disorders; Reinier Schlingemann - Amsterdam, the Netherlands Treatment of retinal diseases with VEGF antagonists; Hans-Werner Müller - Düsseldorf, Germany Pharmacological modification of the extracellular matrix to promote regeneration of the injured brain and spinal cord; Yvo Roos - Amsterdamdam,

the Netherlands First aid for the brain: successful reanimation strategies after stroke; Fabrizio Benedetti - Turin, Italy Placebo responses in neurological disorders; ; Neuroprostheses; ; Thomas Stieglitz - Freiburg, Germany Brain-computer interfaces; Gerald Chader - Los Angeles, USA Visual performance with retinal prostheses; Vittorio Colletti - Verona, Italy Alternative neurosurgical approaches for auditory brain implants; Richard Normann - Salt Lake City, USA Neuronal ensemble control of prosthetic devices by a human with tetraplegia; Edward Tehovnik ? Cambridge, MA, USA Microstimulation of the visual cortex to restore vision; Miguel Nicolelis - Durham, USA Control of artificial limb in monkeys: feedback by neural stimulation; ; Deep Brain Stimulation, FES and TMS; ; Alim-Louis Benabid - Grenoble, France Deep brain stimulation for neurological disorders: an historical perspective; Reggie Edgerton - Los Angeles,

USA Potential for restoring neuromotor function via activity-dependent mechanisms; Vivian Mushahwar - Edmonton, Canada Intraspinal microstimulation and oscillating field stimulation; Damiaan Denys - Amsterdam, the Netherlands Deep brain stimulation: obsessive compulsive disorder; Diego Centonze - Rome, Italy Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation of the motor cortex ameliorates spasticity in multiple sclerosis; ; Mechanisms of spontaneous plasticity and regeneration; ; Christian Lohmann ? Amsterdam, The Netherlands Simultaneous imaging of morphological plasticity and calcium dynamics in dendrites; Catherine Lubetzki - Paris, France Axonal signals in central nervous system demyelination: the semaphorins; Massimo Filippi - Milan, Italy Magnetic resonance techniques to quantify tissue damage, tissue repair and functional cortical reorganization in multiple sclerosis; Henning Voss - New York,

USA Diffusion tensor imaging as a tool to study neuronal plasticity and regeneration; James Fawcett - Cambridge, UK Molecular control of brain plasticity and repair;

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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