Edited by Michael Selzer, Stephanie Clarke, Leonardo Cohen, Pamela Duncan, and Fred Gage. 1440 pp. total, illustrated. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2006. $320. ISBN 978-0-521-83639-5. (Vol. I ISBN, 978-0-521-85641-6; Vol. II ISBN, 978-0-521-85642-3.)
The discipline of neuroscience continues to expand. From earlyanatomy-based investigations through the cellular and molecularbiology revolutions, neuroscience has stayed at the forefrontand at times has even led to paradigm shifts in biology. Oneemerging area that moves away from reductionist biology andtoward the view of the organism as a whole is neurorehabilitation.Although often considered an area that is not grounded in "hardscience," rehabilitation has been transformed over the pasttwo decades with the integration of advances in cellular andmolecular neurobiology, bioengineering, and computer science.Bringing such disparate disciplines together coherently is achallenge, . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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