InhaltsangabePreface. David.W. McCandless.- 1. Functional Anatomy of the Brain. John M. DeSesso.- 2. Brain Metabolic Adaptations to Hypoxia. Michelle A. Puchowicz, Smruta S. Koppaka, and Joseph C. LaManna.- 3. Hypoglycemic Brain Damage.- Roland N. Auer.- 4. Experimental Ischemia: Summary of Metabolic Encephalopathy. W. David Lust, Jennifer Zechel, and Svetlana Pundik.- 5. Stroke-Clinical Features. Svetlana Pundik, and Jose I. Suarez.- 6. The Role of Animal Models in the Study of Epileptogenesis. Kate Chandler, Pi-Shan Chang, and Matthew Walker.- 7. Seizure-Induced Neuronal Plasticity and Metabolic Effects. Monisha Goyal.- 8. Metabolic Encephalopathies in Children. Joseph DiCarlo.- 9. Pathophysiology of Hepatic Encephalopathy: Studies in Animal Models. Roger F. Butterworth.- 10. Hepatic Encephalopathy. Karin Weissenborn.- 11. Uremic and Dialysis Encephalopathies. Allen I. Arieff.- 12. Thiamine Deficiency: A Model of Metabolic Encephalopathy and of Selective Neuronal Vulnerability. Saravanan Karuppagounder and Gary E. Gibson.- 13. Alcohol, Apoptosis, and Oxidative Stress. George I Henderson, Jennifer Stewart, and Steven Schenker.- 14. Wernicke's Encephalopathy. Maryam R. Kashi, George I Henderson, and Steven Schenker.- 15. The Genetics of Myelination in Metabolic Brain Disease: The Leukodystrophies. John W. Rumsey.- 16. Bilirubin Encephalopathy. Jeffrey W. McCandless and David W McCandless.- 17. Infectious And Inflammatory Metabolic Encephalopathies: Concepts in Pathogenesis. Kottil Rammohan.- 18. Major Depression and Metabolic Encephalopathy: Syndromes More Alike Than Not? Brian H. Harvey.- 19. Attention-deficit/hyperactivity Disorder as a Metabolic Encephalopathy. Vivienne Ann Russell.- 20. Brain Damage in Phenylalanine, Homocysteine, and Galactose Metabolic Disorders. Kleopatra H.Schulpis and Stylianos Tsakiris.- 21. Wilson Disease. Peter Ferenci.- 22. Metabolic Abnormalities in Alzheimer Disease. Florian M. Gebhardt and Peter R Dodd.- 23. Prions and the Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies. Richard C. Wiggins.- 24. Lead Encephalopathy. Ivan J. Boyer.- Index.