Description
CBS Publishers and Distributors Postgraduate Physiology Recent Advances by RK Marya
A postgraduate student in physiology, preparing for his future role as a teacher and research worker, has to attain a higher degree of depth and proficiency in the subject. The textbooks of physiology alone are not sufficient for this purpose. Though excellent review articles are available to fulfil this requirement, with the limited time available the postgraduate students cannot be expected to read 50–100 page review articles with over a hundred references each, and make comprehensive and concise summaries of the contents. This book attempts to fill this lacuna in the postgraduate medical education in physiology.
Basically, each chapter in the book is the latest review article on the subject but is presented in a textbook format. Information culled from scores of review articles and original articles has been distilled and condensed in approximately 10-page write up. Besides postgraduate students, members of faculty in physiology department would also find this book a simple path for updating their knowledge on the subject. The book has the hallmark of the author’s previous books in physiology, namely conciseness and simplicity of presentation. A large number of simple illustrations helps to clarify the text.
Some of the topics covered in book are
Exercise hyperpnea
Molecular mechanism of smooth muscle contraction
Non-motor functions of basal ganglia
Thermoregulatory pathways
Neurobiology of sleep-wakefulness
Neurobiology of circadian rhythms
Executive functions of prefrontal cortex
Kisspeptins
Natriuretic peptides
About the Author:
RK Marya MBBS, MD, PhD has teaching experience in postgraduate and undergraduate physiology for over 50 years. He has taught not only in India (now known as PGIMS, Rohtak), but also in renowned universities abroad (Iraq, Libya, Mauritius, etc.). His last foreign assignment was in Malaysia where, as professor and head of the department, he taught undergraduate and postgraduate students in physiology for over 12 years (2006–2018). He organized postgraduate programme in physiology at Medical College, Rohtak, Al-Arab Medical University, Benghazi, Libya, and AIMST University, Malaysia.
Prof Marya has been a renowned research worker. He has approximately 100 research papers and review articles to his credit. He has supervised over 30 postgraduate (PhD/MD/MS/MSc) theses. His publications include Medical Physiology 4/e, Textbook of Physiology for Dental Students 3/e, Pathophysiology 2/e, Surgical Pathophysiology and History of Medicine.
He has been on the editorial board of Indian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology and International Journal of Medical and Biomedical Research. At present he is member of international advisory/reviewers’ committee of Internet Journal of Medical Update and technical advisor Journal of Oral Health and Community Dentistry. He was recipient of life-time achievement award from Haryana Physiological Society in 2016.