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... proportional to the number of bouts engaged in by the victim The more the number of bouts, the greater the likelihood of enduring brain injury.34 Of course, there was nothing carefree about the Quarry ... coordination, lightheadedness, loss of balance, What Is Brain Trauma? 13 This illustration shows the stages of an axon shear The axon is a fiber that extends from the nucleus ofthe cell loss of memory, ... others Some patients exist in these states indefinitely; others stay alive only with the help of ventilators or other artificial life support Punch Drunk Two ofthe most well known examples of...
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... model of parkinsonism Proceedings ofthe National Academy of Sciences, ofthe United States of America, 102, 2174 2179 1: THE ETIOPATHOGENESIS OF PARKINSON’S DISEASE: BASIC MECHANISMS OF NEURODEGENERATION ... rigidity and akinesia, there is no correlation between the clinical severity of PD tremor and the severity ofthe dopaminergic deficit in the striatum or the clinical progression ofthe disease (Deuschl ... Careful analysis ofthe correlation between the clinical symptoms and the extent ofthe lesion led to the conclusion 27 that experimental rest tremor is the result of damage to the nigro-striatal...
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... representation ofthe state-action matrix in the actor part ofthe basal ganglia networks is achieved by decorrelation ofthe spiking activity ofthe pallidal neurons (output stage ofthe basal ganglia) The ... project to the motor portion ofthe striatum (the putamen) with relative sparing of other striatal areas The magnitude ofthe behavior- al effect of SNc lesions is explained by the fact that the basal ... et al., 2003a) of pallidal neurons in the normal monkey revealed lack of correlation between the spiking activity of these neurons The complex anatomy ofthe basal ganglia and the physiological...
... exchange, thereby causing stress to the fish due to low oxygen and accumulated wastes The rate of fouling depends on the mesh size ofthe nets, temperature ofthe water and productivity ofthe site ... parts ofthe world the primary source of animal protein for humans is finfish The intensive culture of finfish has grown significantly since the 1980s partly because ofthe dramatic decline in the ... it is also important to consider the rate of biofouling and the species composition ofthe marine fauna in and around the potential site (Chua, 1982) A checklist of 20 Z:\Customer\CABI\A4337 -...
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... attracting the love of a woman Today we still recognize the esthetic significance ofthe nose, but also—and perhaps more important—we now acknowledge and appreciate the functional significance ofthe ... comprehensive review ofthe physiology ofthe nose, and of its disorders, but also established the relationship between the nasal and the bronchial airways in health and disease The data presented ... significance ofthe interaction ofthe nasal airways with the lower airways In fact, because ofthe similarities between the nasal and bronchial mucosa, the concept of “one airway, one disease”...
... relieve the suffering of HIV patients; their symptoms continued, irrespective of confirmation from the blood test that they only carried the virus In fact, the test was often detrimental to these ... blood for the presence ofthe virus The Origins of an Epidemic 23 AIDS-infected blood, the statistics were terrifying to the public In the final weeks before blood banks began using the HIV test ... that the flu-like symptoms that are the hallmark of initial HIV infection are the results ofthe body’s initial attempt to battle the virus In this stage, referred to as the acute stage of infection,...
... and other diseases wherever they go Air travel has increased the spread of STDs immeasurably by transporting infected people from one side ofthe globe to the other in a matter of hours The fact ... occur in the United States alone, a rate of new infection higher than that of any other country in the industrialized world Indeed, the CDC, the federal agency that monitors the incidence of disease ... since the invention ofthe birth control pill in the late 1950s made pregnancy a much less likely result of sexual relations and helped to launch the so-called sexual revolution ofthe 1960s For the...
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... another job as good as the one he lost, the therapist had the patient list the elements ofthe ideal job, The therapist then had the patient compare his previous jobs with each element ofthe ... strong), the patient rates the rest ofthe items The severity ofthe suicidal ideations are calculated from the first 19-items and the range of scores is from 0-38 There is no cut-off score, but the ... of rescue Items 9-15 focus on the attempter’s perception ofthe lethality ofthe attempt, expectations of rescue, degree of premeditation, and the purpose ofthe attempt Items 16-20 include the...
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