Scientific and medical librarians will treasure this first-ever guide to the themes and literature associated with the “Decade of the Brain”--one of the greatest sustained research initiatives in the U.S. and Europe today. As interest and funding of neuroscience research increases in the 1990s, the resulting wave of investigations will present a unique challenge to librarians. Scientific and Clinical Literature for the Decade of the Brain helps librarians who lack money in their own budgets for creating comprehensive collections by providing frank recommendations for the far fewer numbers of truly key sources necessary for a surprisingly competitive collection.Scientific and Clinical Literature for the Decade of the Brain describes in easily understood language the background, print sources, and electronic services of a wide range of neuroscience topics including:
- developmental and adult neuroanatomy
- regulatory and integrative neurophysiology
- psychobiology
- neurochemistry
- molecular and cellular neuroscience
- sensory perception and psychophysics
- clinical neuropsychology, academic cognitive science, and neural networks
- neurology, neurosurgery, neurological nursing, and allied diagnostic and rehabilitative services
- brain imaging
- psychopharmacology and neuropharmacology
- alcohol and the brain
