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Editors:  Susanna Pietropaolo, Frans Sluyter, and Wim E. Crusio Publisher:  Cambridge University Press- 457 pages Book Review by: Sonu Chandiram This second volume of Behavioral Genetics of the Mouse published in 2014 provides a comprehensive overview of the major genetically modified mouse lines to model human neurobehavioral disorders of various kinds, as detailed in the titles of its chapters below. Sixty-two specialists in: abuse research, alcohol research, behavioral sciences, biochemistry, biomedical sciences, brain technology, cognition and emotion research, genetics, microbiology, molecular genetics, neurology, neuroscience, neuro-toxicology, ophthalmology and visual sciences, pain medicine, pharmacology, psychiatry, psychology, physiology, translational research, and other...

Editors: Andrew “Fred” Robinson, James W. Brodsky, and John P. Negrine Publisher:  Cambridge University Press – 426 pages Book Review by: Nano Khilnani The aim of the editors in producing and offering this book to you, the trainees and practitioners of foot and ankle surgery, is to share their own collective knowledge, insight, and wisdom gathered over their many years of learning and experience, but also to share with you, the resources gathered by the numerous contributors who have authored the chapters of this book, filling them with the valuable nuggets of information on a diverse range of subjects...

Author: Douglas C. Miller, MD Publisher: Cambridge University Press–519 pages, with 1,200+ full-color photomicrographs Book Review by: Nano Khilnani The nervous system is the most complex organ system in the human body, and this may be reason why it is susceptible to large variety and range of diseases, Dr. Douglas Miller, the sole author of this highly informative text, states in his introductory note. Much research in the field of neuropathology has been conducted in the past two decades, leading to better understanding of the causes of and treatment of diseases in the brain and within the vast network...

Editors: Peter J. Murphy, Stephen C. Marriage, and Peter J. Davis Publisher:  Cambridge University Press – 335 pages Book Review by: Nano Khilnani The learning you will receive from this book is based on actual cases in pediatric critical care. Professor Peter J. Fleming of the FSID Research Unit in Bristol, UK, who wrote the Foreword for this book, asserts: “we learn best by experience.” He writes: “No textbook can hope to replace the learning process that occurs from long hours of clinical practice, the experience of decision-making (whether right or wrong) and the deeply ingrained learning that comes...

Editors: Simon Shorvon, Renzo Guerrini, Steven Schachter, and Eugen Trinka Publisher:  Cambridge University Press – 989 pages Book Review by: Nano Khilnani The good news about epilepsy is that advances in medical technologies in the last few decades have enabled neurologists to determine the causes of many types of epilepsies. When a symptom of epilepsy such as a headache or seizure occurs, the first objective is to find its causes. In epilepsies, there are many different causes. These main points are mentioned and discussed by the four editors named above in the Preface to this second (2019) edition. The...