“Magnesium in the Central Nervous System” – FREE e-book!

1 Magnesium—Physiological effect.
2 Magnesium in the body.
3 Central nervous system.

This e-book (with bookmark panel) is available from the website http://www.adelaide.edu.au/press/titles/magnesium as a free down loadable PDF with fully searchable text!


The book is edited by ROBERT VINK & MIHAI NECHIFOR
and published in Adelaide by University of Adelaide Press 2011, Barr Smith Library, The University of Adelaide
Paperback ISBN 978-0-9870730-6-8, 356 pp , $88

"Our understanding of the physiology and biochemistry of the brain has improved dramatically in the last two decades. In particular, the critical role of cations, including magnesium, has become evident, even if incompletely understood at a mechanistic level.
The exact role and regulation of magnesium in particular remains elusive, largely becaue inracelluar levls are so difficult to routinely quantify. Nonetheless, the importance of magesium o normal central nervous system actvit is self-evident given the complicated omeostatic mechanisms that maintain the concentration of this cation within strict limits essential for normal physiology and metabolism.
There is also considerable accumulating evidence to suggest alterations to some brain functions in both normal and pathological conditions may be linked to alterations in local magnesium concentration.
This book, containing chapters written by some of the foremost experts in the field of magnesium research, brings together the latest in experimental and clinical magnesium research as it relates to the central nervous system. It offers a complete and updated view of magnesium’s involvement in central nervous system function and in so doing, brings together two main pillars of contemporary neuroscience research, namely providing an explanation for the molecular mechanisms involved in brain function, and emphasizing the connections between the molecular changes and behaviour.
It is the untiring efforts of those magnesium researchers who have dedicated their lives to unraveling the mysteries of magnesium’s role in biological systems that has inspired the collation of this volume of work."


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