Stem Cells and CNS Development (Contemporary Neuroscience)

Rating:
Summary: Excellent
Review: Dr. Rao has done the neuroscience community a great service in producing this work. Very useful, very well written.

Rating:
Summary: Heavy-hitters represented
Review: Having just started working in the area of neural stem cell research at the Roger Williams Medical Center in Providence RI, I turned to Dr. Rao's book as a primer on the field. I was delighted to discover that in addition to having excellent content, the book was consistently well-written. As I started to read the journal literature, I discovered that many of the chapter contributors are heavy-hitters in the field. People like Fred Gage of the Salk Institute and Arturo Alvarez-Buylla of Rockefeller University are contributors. Of course, Dr. Rao himself is a major name in the field and contributes to several chapters. I could not give it a full five-star rating because there are a few weak links, such as the penultimate chapter on transplant therapy, which provides little insight. But I wish I were allowed to give it four-and-a-half stars because, overall, this is a great book. After I got mine, two more people in our lab bought copies. I recommend that anyone in the field do the same!