From Book News, Inc.With some help from colleagues in Europe and North America, Hammond (Institut de la Meediterrannee) presents an advanced textbook. Her 23 chapters reflect the 23 adventures of scientists searching for a solution in order to demonstrate the intellectual process by which scientists elaborate a hypothesis following an observation, dissect the most appropriate way to perform experiments that will validate or invalidate the proposed novel concept, and discuss their results. The sections cover neurons, ionotropic nocotinic acetylcholine receptors, somano-dendritic processing and the plasticity of post-synaptic potentials, and the hippocampus as an example of the activity and development of networks. The first volume appeared in 1996.Book News, Inc.®, Portland, OR --This text refers to the Paperback edition.