In the eight years since the publication of Volume 63 of \"Progress in Brain Research\", on this subject, developments in the research field have been very fast. For example, receptor physiology and pharmacology is now an intensively studied field, and the excitotoxic hypothesis of cell death is commonly accepted. Furthermore, it is recognized that ischemia gives rise to a sustained depression of overall protein synthesis, yet leads to the expression of dormant genes and to the synthesis of new proteins. In view of this development, this volume focuses on the cellular and molecular aspects of ischemic brain damage. The book should be of interest to all those interested in the pathophysiology of ischemic and traumatic brain damage.

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