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AUTISM

by: rika, 70 pages

Autism is a neurological or brain disorder that profoundly affects a person’s ability to communicate, form relationships with others, and respond appropriately to the environment. ...

Stroke

by: rika, 3 pages

A stroke is when blood flow to a part of the brain is denied, either because the arteries have become restricted due to atherosclerosis (or hardening of the arteries), or because there is bleeding in ...

Evolutionary Psychology

by: rika, 18 pages

Evolutionary psychology is a recent approach to understanding human psychology that takes as its starting place the fact that minds, just like hearts, kidneys, eyes, and thumbs, are the ...

The Seven Sins of Evolutionary Psychology

by: rika, 24 pages

Seven major flaws in the evolutionary psychology agenda are outlined. With its enthusiasm for human inclusive-fitness issues, this variant of sociobiology has expressed little interest in ...

Traumatic Brain Injury

by: shinta, 53 pages

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a major public health problem, especially among male adolescents and young adults ages 15 to 24, and among elderly people of both sexes 75 years and ...

HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE

by: shinta, 18 pages

High blood pressure, or hypertension as the disease is known medically, is our most common chronic ill- ness. Estimates of exactly how many Americans have high blood pressure ...

Headache

by: shinta, 40 pages

Understanding why headaches occur and improving headache treatment are among the research goals of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS). As

BRAIN CYSTS

by: shinta, 6 pages

Just like a cyst elsewhere in your body, a cyst in the brain is a sphere filled with fluid, similar to a miniature balloon filled with water. Cysts may contain fluid, blood, minerals, or tissue ...

Three-dimensional optical tomography of the premature infant brain

by: shinta, 12 pages

For the first time, three-dimensional images of the newborn infant brain have been generated using measurements of transmitted light. A 32-channel time- resolved imaging system was ...

Educating Oliver Medhurst. 2: Worcestershire 1986-2006

by: oliver, 57 pages

Documents relating to the care, treatment and education of Oliver Medhurst in Worcestershire, England, 1986-2006. These documents were generated by Phillip Medhurst as he sought to improve the ...

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