Neurology
epub |eng | 2013-01-07 | Author:Cozolino, Louis [Cozolino, Louis]

Teaching about the interconnections among the brain, the body, and how we learn will provide students with important scientific knowledge, which could improve their academic performance and physical health. 7. ...
( Category: Educational Psychology January 4,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-05-05 | Author:Clark Elliott

AT LEAST WE CAN LAUGH—PAIN AND HUMOR There are low points with concussion, but there are amusing times as well. Here we will touch on one of the low points—concussion ...
( Category: Neurology December 22,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jon Palfreman

11 THE DESCENDANTS Chance favors the prepared mind. —Louis Pasteur, 1854 After he helped pioneer L-dopa therapy in the 1960s with individuals like patient 3, Roger Duvoisin went on to ...
( Category: Neurology December 14,2015 )
epub |eng | 2009-12-28 | Author:Fields Ph.D., R. Douglas

WHEN PAIN BECOMES DISEASE: GLIA IN CHRONIC PAIN Pain caused by injury is protective, but there is another type of pain that develops mysteriously and intensifies even after the injury ...
( Category: Neurology December 14,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-10-24 | Author:Michal Schwartz

Over the past two decades, neurodegenerative diseases have often been linked to chronic inflammatory processes within the brain or the spinal cord tissue. Again, as we have seen in this ...
( Category: Neurology October 25,2015 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-11-25 | Author:James H. Austin

Item: The ACH nerve cells in the brainstem are highly resistant to the toxic side effects of NO'. In fact, ACH nerve cells cultured from the parabrachial nuclei are some ...
( Category: Neurology October 9,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-09-22 | Author:James E. Zull [Zull, James E.]

Other Symbolic Traps There are other symbolic traps that may lead us to overestimate our own or others’ understanding. In language, for example, if we encounter someone who has a ...
( Category: Educational Psychology September 25,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-08-29 | Author:Catani, Marco, Sandrone, Stefano

FIG 22.3 Left: A frog loses the ability to coordinate movement after damage to the left cerebellum (Onimus, 1872). Right: This soldier suffered a severe injury to his right cerebellum. ...
( Category: Neurology August 30,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-02-17 | Author:Sebastian Seung

Figure 48. Gray versus white matter of the cerebrum The distinction between gray and white matter was known in antiquity, but their fundamental difference became clear only after the discovery ...
( Category: Neurology August 26,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-11-09 | Author:Stephen Macknik [Blakeslee, Sandra]

END OF SPOILER ALERT When our son Iago was two, Steve showed him a magic trick. Steve felt he had gotten pretty good at the trick and wanted to show ...
( Category: Neurology August 21,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-08-04 | Author:Ananthaswamy, Anil [Ananthaswamy, Anil]

Nicholas knows only too well the importance of feeling connected to one’s body. “I have never been so aware of what your core is as a person until I got ...
( Category: Neurology August 20,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-02-14 | Author:Breuning, Loretta Graziano [Breuning, Loretta Graziano]

2. Neurons Atrophy from Lack of Experience Your brain started pruning itself at age two. Neurons that weren’t used began to wither. Surprisingly, this stimulates knowledge. It helps a toddler ...
( Category: Neurology August 15,2015 )
epub |eng | 2008-05-17 | Author:Robert Melillo;Gerry Leisman [Leisman, Robert Melillo;Gerry]

CORTICAL-SUBCORTICAL CIRCUITS AND AFFECTIVE DISORDERS In considering how cerebellar, thalamic, or basal ganglionic dysfunction may lead to depression or mania, it has been proposed that it is the result of ...
( Category: Neurology August 5,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-06-06 | Author:Strominger, Norman L. & Demarest, Robert J. & Laemle, Lois B.

Ganglia in the Head The named ganglia in the head are of two types: (1) sensory ganglia containing the cell bodies of neurons of the first order (equivalent to dorsal ...
( Category: Neurology August 5,2015 )
epub |eng | 2007-09-02 | Author:Andrew L. Lautin [Lautin, Andrew L.]

THE PROXIMITY OF THE HYPOTHALAMUS TO THE AMYGDALA, AND HIPPOCAMPUS As noted in chapter 1, the hypothalamus, the mainly subcortical amygdala, also the allocortical hippocampus are generally considered core limbic ...
( Category: Psychiatry August 1,2015 )