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KKGENERATION IN THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM" 



1955 

 edited by W. F. Windle Charles C. Thomas 



311 pp. with 68 figs Springfield. 111., U.S.A. 



Price: $ 9.50 



In this composite work the editor has brought together contributions by 

 33 eminent scientists (30 from the United States, one from Canada and two 

 from England), who have come together to discuss this interesting problem 

 at the Medical Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness in Bethesda, 

 Md, U.S.A., in May 1954, in order to find new evidence that regeneration 

 can take place in the central nervous system in man, and may be effectively 

 stimulated. This new attack on an old problem finds encouragement from 

 the much more positive results which nowadays rehabilitation programmes 

 have provided for paraplegic patients. The main results of this conference, 

 laid down in this monograph, form an increasing body of evidence that 

 regeneration can occur in the central nervous system of many different verte- 

 brates including man, so that the time seems to be ripe to search for new 

 ways of stimulating regeneration in such a manner that a true restitution of 

 lost functions can be achieved. 



Besides this very important main result the present monograph offers a very 

 stimulating and comprehensive survey of the experimental work in the field 

 of regeneration of the central nervous system, which also finds its expression 

 in the very extensive bibliography. The editor has been very successful in 

 organizing the various contributions and making them uniform, so that, thanks 

 also to the excellent printing, this monograph will be an excellent and easy 

 guide into this many-sided problem. We only regret — but understand very 

 well the organisational and technical reasons — that so many european and 

 asiatic scientists, whose names appear so often in the text of the various 

 contributions, have not been able to contribute directly to this conference. 

 We hope however that this monograph will also lead to a revival or inten- 

 sification of their work. 



P. D. NIEUWKOOP 



