sex and the brain wiki

... series on nutrition, the brain, and behavior, the present book brings new information to the long-debated issue of the benecial and possible negative effects on the brain from the consumption of ... ischemia, and seizures, and on the mostly unknown effects of the chlorogenic acids found in coffee The effects of caffeine on the stress axis and development of the brain are also updated Finally, the ... of these receptors suggests some probable sites of action of caffeine in the brain Included are the striatum and medulla, as well as portions of the basal forebrain, the mesopontine area, and the...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 04:20

... perceptions, the ideas, the recollections, the reasonings, the emotions, the desires, the imaginations, and the acts of attention and of will These appear to be, at the first glance, the elements ... each, other, continue, and arrange themselves logically: in lieu of sensations, there are objects and relations of space between these objects, and the actions which connect them, and the phenomena ... ambition, Notwithstanding the prudence of some and the equivocations in which others have rejoiced, they have drawn their definition in the absolute and not in[34] the relative To take their conceptions...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 12:20

... testing whether these examples can satisfy the definition given in §5 for a quantum switch One question is whether the states ρ1 and ρ2 are sufficiently different, and the other is whether the quantum ... principle, there is no difficulty with assigning a quantum state to a photographic plate, or to the photographic plate and the electron and the entire camera and the developing machine and so on These ... follow the central arguments CONTENTS Introduction The Problems of Quantum Mechanics and the Relevance of the Brain Quantum Mechanical Assumptions Information Processing in the Brain The Quantum Theory...

Ngày tải lên: 18/04/2014, 15:28

... hot and dry in the 3rd degree These distinctions were made on the basis of the odor and taste of the plant product, not the therapeutic effectiveness or use In fact, no matter how elaborate the ... first with the biochemical identification and characterization of these sites and, subsequently, with their isolation and purification, and the cloning of the genes responsible for their production.9,10 ... supplements and the brain half-life, or t1/2 The half-life is the amount of time it takes for the drug concentration in the blood to be reduced by half In general, the longer the half-life, the more...

Ngày tải lên: 29/06/2014, 09:20

... radiation from the materials they handled, and the other was not The DOE tracked the workers between 1980 and 1988, and what they found shocked everyone involved Radiation made them healthier The twenty-eight ... took the test — not merely the best and the brightest How did they stack up? On the science section of the TIMSS, Naperville’s students finished first, just ahead of Singapore, and then the North ... influences the brain If Titusville can find the spark, so can the rest of us My hope is that we can use these examples as a new cultural model and, ultimately, reconnect the body and the brain As...

Ngày tải lên: 04/07/2014, 20:45

... that the brain has the most power for man… The eyes and ears and tongue and hands and feet whatsoever the brain determines…it is the brain that is the messenger to the understanding [and] the brain ... them the power to strengthen and utilize the healthy parts of their brain in order to resist their compulsions and quiet the anxieties and fears caused by their obsessions And then, despite the ... toilet seats with their hands and then spread—well, then spread whatever they touched all over their hair, face, and clothes They have had patients rub urine over themselves They have had patients...

Ngày tải lên: 27/07/2014, 00:31

... infarcted brain can be identified), and also to some degree on the resolution of the scanner used Second, the thromboembolic risk is closely linked to the anatomic injury itself [4] All of the post-FVIIa ... brain infarcts observed in our series occurred in the presence of severe TBI, just as the majority of all of the complications we found occurred at the site of an identified vascular injury The ... patients, focused on the treatment of hemorrhagic shock, specifically excludes patients with severe TBI There is a clear and urgent need to study this population, however, and to study the very wide...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 08:20

... GIF within the brain Further studies are required to determine the function of GIF within the normal, injured and neurodegenerative brain, and to establish the therapeutic potential of the protein ... deficient in the AD brain There remains no clear consensus on the role of GIF in the pathogenesis of AD, and therefore we will briefly review some of the current thoughts on the role of GIF in AD There ... into the functional roles of this protein in the brain, and in particular its ability to inhibit neurite outgrowth (as described above) The functional role of GIF synthesis and secretion in the brain...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 15:20

... provided by the Harvard Brain Tissue Resource Center (Belmont, MA, USA) and the Netherlands Brain Bank (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Blocks of cortex, anterior amygdala, striatum and midbrain from ... 1C) and human liver (Fig 2B) and moderate expression levels in rat liver (Fig 1A), in accordance with the literature [16–18] The difference in the expression levels in the liver of the ADH4–/– and ... can be oxidized in brain homogenates and that catalase is involved in the accumulation of acetaldehyde in the brain [27], explaining its presence despite the absence of ADH1 and the fact that acetaldehyde...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 00:20

... because of the large amount of missing data (65.9%) (Table 25.7) .The combinations of interest were: race and sex, SEER stage and sex, SEER stage and grade, histologic type, race and sex and histologic ... patients with other CNS cancer, the spine was the most common primary site (53.9% of total), followed by the brain (41.3% of total) and other (4.8% of total) Other CNS cancers in the brain (malignant ... though they both affect the central nervous system; therefore, brain cancer and other CNS cancer were analyzed separately For the brain cancer patients, survival varied only slightly by race and sex...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 17:20

... of the Molecular Biology of Brain Tumors and the Therapeutic Implications high grade gliomas The structure and compounds of the ECM of the brain tissue have many specific differences from other ... treat primary and metastatic brain tumors, the incidence and mortality rates of these tumors is increasing Particularly affected are young adults and the elderly The present standard treatment ... enviro‐ ment and form it similar to the tumor tissue The process of the peritumoral invasion de‐ pends on the confrontation zone of the tumor cells and the non-neoplastic cells and ECM Glioma...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 10:20

... [33,34] The density of d-serine is much lower in the caudal part of the brain, including the adult cerebellum and brainstem (Fig 1) This is because of the emergence of d-amino acid oxidase in adult ... preparations? Glycine and d-serine display comparable affinities to NMDARs, and therefore the difference in their functional efficiency may be related to the availability of the two co-agonists at ... cerebral cortex [25,39], some nuclei of the hindbrain [38,39,66] and in ganglion cells of the retina [67] Fig D-Serine localizes to neurons and astrocytes in the brain Staining for D-serine was performed...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 04:20

... observations for the human and rat I-FABP, and other members of the FABP family, that the N-terminal halves of these proteins are more highly conserved than their C-terminal halves [27] Mapping of the initiation ... pufferfish B-FABP is 83%, 76% and 83%, respectively The percentage amino acid identity between zebrafish and human and mouse is higher in the exons and than it is in the exons and coding for B-FABP This ... (HM), mouse (MS) and pufferfish (PF) Exons (E1–E4) are shown as boxes and introns (I1–I3) as solid lines The length of the boxes and lines represent the approximate size of the exons and introns, respectively,...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 07:20

... to form the hollow neural tube The top of the tube thickens into three bulges that form the hindbrain, midbrain and forebrain The first signs of the eyes and then the hemispheres of the brain appear ... structure and function In response to stress and changes in our biological clocks, such as day -and- night cycles and jet-lag, hormones enter the blood and travel to the brain and other organs In the brain, ... from the autonomic nervous system and commanding the body through those nerves and Amygdala the pituitary gland On the Hippocampus upper surface of the (2) midbrain are two pairs of small Midbrain...

Ngày tải lên: 08/04/2014, 13:13

... neocortex the differenc(' N-III'CCn lhe functions of the hippocampus and the amygdala, I use a metaphor I tdl them that the hippocampus tells them who the OTher ooys and girls arc, and the ~Hnn,'{blil ... children to undarstand The brain stem or reptilian brain deals WIth survival The Limbic Brain The second level of Madean's triune brain is the limbic bmin or the tIlllmmlllian brain, so called ... understanding lh~e levds o( the brnin as opposed to the multiplemuetures and layers that trul\' exist You can tellthem dmt their brain stem is the boss o( the hrain It controls hean rate and {(~sriration...

Ngày tải lên: 29/04/2014, 15:23

... Europe and the United States The brain is very much in vogue Over the last few years popular books about the brain have become a literary genre in and of itself The Overflowing Brain stands out ... from the fact that it’s difficult to hold the wheel and shift gears with the same hand, or to keep our eyes on the road and on the phone’s display at the same time, there’s something in the mentally ... However, if the description is more like “Go straight ahead for two blocks and then one block to the left and the right again for three blocks, then left and then three right, and you’re there,”...

Ngày tải lên: 10/06/2014, 22:09

... 200 215 Part Battle of the Sexes: Human Pre-History and the Nature of Gender 13 The Asymmetry of Sex 14 What Human Pre-history Says About the Sexes 15 Why There Are Two Sexes 227 232 242 258 viii ... including the nucleus, the mitochondria, the chloroplasts (responsible for photosynthesis in plants), and the centrioles (the cell bodies that organize the cytoskeleton) All these theories were ... wrong—while all the genes in the nucleus came from the ‘real’ mother, some of the mitochondrial genes came from the ‘donor’ mother, so the babies did indeed receive some genes from two different mothers...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 10:36

... mediators, depending on the kinetic of their expression and posttraumatic regulation in the injured brain [3,12,13] However, the TNF-dependent regulation of IL18 in the injured brain has not yet been ... 405 nm The experimental part of the study was set-up on two different protocols with the aim to assess the TNF-dependent regulation of IL-18 in the murine brain: (1) The first part of the experimental ... injury to the left hemisphere Mice received supporting oxygenation with 100% O2 until they awakened and were then brought back to their cages Control animals were subjected to anesthesia and sham...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 22:20

... homogenized the brain samples, calculated protein concentrations, ran ELISAs, and completed most of the experiments for these studies MJS ran the gels and did the densitometry for the midbrain α ... hypothesized point of entry of PM in the brain) ; the frontal lobe (damaged in AD and Frontaltemporal lobe dementia); the temporal lobe (damaged in AD and Frontaltemporal lobe dementia); the midbrain ... Ab42, and Tau [pS199] ELISA Brain homogenate protein (100 μg/well) from brain regions: the olfactory bulb, the frontal lobe, the temporal lobe, the midbrain, and the cerebellum were assessed...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 22:20

... of the sun, and laws about the rectilinear propagation of light, and one can also derive the height of the flagpole from the length of the shadow, the elevation of the sun, and laws about the ... attitude: The scientific believe that our minds the behavior of our brains—can be explained by the interactions of nerve cells (and other cells) and the molecules associated with them (1994: 7) Neither ... to mimic the extracellular fluid environment of the synapse in vivo They delivered current to the nerve and recorded a change in the electrical potential of the muscle Then they varied the Ca2+...

Ngày tải lên: 03/07/2014, 16:08