Updates coverage on the NMDA receptor - a protein in the brain involved in the electrical and chemical processes which may underlie learning and memory. These receptors are also thought to contribute to stroke-induced brain damage and Alzheimer's disease. . . . just the book to recommend to all final-year undergraduates in the neurosciences, to postgraduate researchers in psycho-pharmacology and to all those psychiatrists wishing to keep abreast of the complex but fascinating field of neurotransmission in the mammalian brain.