Book Review: “Thermoregulation: From Basic Neuroscience to Clinical Neurology, Part 1”

The comprehensive two-part book “Thermoregulation: From Basic Neuroscience to Clinical Neurology”, edited by Andrej Romanovsky [1,2], assembles the leaders in the field and presents a full-scale update of the scientific achievements and their clinical applications. The last 20 years are dominated on the one hand by scientific progress on the neurophysiological and molecular level, and on the other hand by deep insights into the role of thermoregulation in various clinical fields, particularly in neurology. These facts are perfectly considered by Romanovsky’s brand-new compilation: About one half of the five sections (with 28 chapters) of Part 1 are dedicated to the neural and molecular basis of thermoreceptors and the corresponding neural pathways. The two-part book stands in the tradition of Schönbaum’s and Lomax’ “Thermoregulation” compilations, the last of which were published in 1990 (volume 1, Physiology and Biochemistry [3]) and 1991 (volume 2, Pathology, Pharmacology, and Therapy [4]). Eduard Schönbaum and Peter Lomax enthusiastically spread the idea of “the unifying role of thermoregulation”, which now is wonderfully mirrored by Romanovsky’s book. The analysis of thermoregulatory processes needs: