Arterial Behavior and Blood Circulation in the Brain

This unusual volume represents the work of one of the leading investigators of cerebrovascular physiology and pathology in the Soviet Union. His ideas are not well known to Western science. Many of them are unorthodox, and in many instances he raises more questions than he answers. His book provides a most welcome and rare glimpse into an important area of research as it is carried out in the Georgian Republic of the Soviet Union. The book consists of the results of many experiments by the author and his collaborators as well as illustrative, penetrating, and at times provocative discussions of the theoretical aspects of the problems. The author is familiar with the Western literature on this complicated subject and draws freely on such publications, which he skillfully incorporates into many of his theoretical proposals. His belief that cerebral arteries, arterioles, and capillaries may under certain circumstances respond to specific controls,