Brain Repair

Over a half million people each year suffer brain-damaging injuries and diseases -- but the outlook for their eventual recovery is far more hopeful than it was just a short while ago. In Brain Repair, three internationally renowned neuroscientists team up to offer an intriguing and up-to-the-minute introduction to the explosive advances being made in the research, technology, and treatment of brain damage.

We learn about the theory of neuroplasticity (the key to much of neuroscience's most exciting discoveries), visit the laboratories where researchers are untangling the mystery of Parkinson's disease, and are taken on a fascinating tour of the ways in which brain structure and functioning has been understood and studied, from prehistoric times to the present.