Neural repair, transplantation and rehabilitation

This unique text bridges the gap between experimental studies and clinical trials, whilst providing the non-specialist with a background in rehabilitation strategies as well as basic neuroscience.

The limits of regeneration in the central nervous system, strategies for protection and repair of damage in the CNS. Experimental principles of neural transplantation. Nigral grafts in animal models of parkinson's disease. First clinical trails, neural grafts in parkinson's disease, a difficult target for transplantation, spinal cord injury, the ultimate challange, other sources of cells for plantation, psychological factors in graft function