... the metabolism ofthebrain Sensors around the volunteer’s head monitor the radioactivity Computers convert the information into two-dimensional images The more active an area ofthe brain, the ... with some ofthe vocabulary and imagery needed to talk about and visualize brain structure neuron—nerve cell in thebrainThe neuron is the basis ofthebrain It is estimated that thebrain contains ... Chapter Support theAgingBrain Orchestrate the Interplay Between Mind and Body Facts About Aging Quiz Physical Aspects OfAging Psychological Aspects OfAging Cognitive Aspects OfAging Self-Quiz...
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... 1999), the PL face patch ofthe IT cortex (Issa & DiCarlo, 2012), as well as other IT regions ofthe cortex (Matsumoto, et al., 2005) Also, microstimulation of sites in the lower bank ofthe STS ... to the current state of knowledge about the properties and speed of object processing in the brain, from biology, through molecular and cognitive neuroscience to psychology Multiple brain imaging ... is also called the ―where‖ pathway The ventral stream on the other hand is primarily engaged in recognition of objects; hence it is also called the ―what‖ pathway The existence of these pathways...
... a sample of 439.1 Table summarizes the sociodemographic and psychological characteristics ofthe sample at the time ofthe first interview The majority ofthe sample was White (83%; the remainder ... in the composition of social networks over time could alter the relative availability and efficiency of different types of support because of changes in the availability of certain types of ties ... may change (e.g., according to the social convoy model), both theories lead us to the hypotheses that the quality of support in networks of older adults remain the same or actually increase over...
... 77 FIVE The Mommy Brain 95 SIX Emotion: The Feeling Brain 117 SEVEN The Mature Female Brain 135 EPILOGUE The Future ofthe Female Brain 159 vii C o n t e n ts APPENDIX ONE: The Female Brain and ... displays of status They often express agreement with a partner’s suggestions And when they have ideas of their own, they’ll put them in the form of questions, such as “I’ll be the teacher, okay?” Their ... created The boys pushed the girls around, refused to take turns, and would ignore a girl’s request to stop or give the toy back By the end ofthe morning, Leila had retreated to the other end of the...
... to aging However, the medical relevance of such interventions merits their careful analysis, so they are the topic ofthe remainder of this section One possibility is selectively to inhibit the ... inconsistent with the retention of essentially undiminished bioenergetic capacity [25], but they ostensibly supported the Ôtip ofthe icebergÕ hypothesis [26] that the low levels of deletion-bearing mtDNA ... present in tissue [27,28] Another possibility is that the deleted mtDNA found in the earlier studies [23,24] was in the process of being degraded: the finding [29] that most ofthe oxidized bases in...
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... The rectangular part ofthe plot extends from the lower to the upper quartile; the centre lines within each box show the location ofthe sample medians; the crosses within each box indicate the ... 1990) The present work aims to study the reproductive biologyofthe marbled goby in the Aegean; more specifically to study the sex ratio, time of spawning, fecundity, and size at maturity ofthe ... goodness -of- fit test was undertaken to compare the sex ratios at each monthly sampling or within the size groups with the hypothesized sex ratio of 1:1 The gonadosomatic index (GSI), which describes the...
... and Björn Malmqvist TheBiologyof Mangroves Peter F Hogarth TheBiologyof Soft Shores and Estuaries Colin Little TheBiologyofthe Deep Ocean Peter Herring TheBiologyof Lakes and Ponds, ... habitat TheBiologyof Rocky Shores Colin Little and F A Kitching TheBiologyof Polar Habitats G E Fogg TheBiologyof Lakes and Ponds Christer Brönmark and Lars-Anders Hansson TheBiologyof Streams ... Glacier Bay, on the coast of southeast Alaska, is one ofthe 12 THEBIOLOGYOF SOIL best known places for research on soil and ecosystem development because ofthe continuous retreat ofthe glaciers...
... race against the media and surely also against other people The future ofthe adapted mind is the creation of artificial people 401 XIII THE FUTURE OFTHE ADAPTED MIND A feature ofthe adapted ... kind of average representation of stimuli of one class There are some hints that our brain solves the problem of storing faces with the help of prototypes We seem to build facial prototypes and then ... Brennan & Carey, 1987), where averaging a large number of faces in thebrain derives the norm The second hypothesis is the ‘density alone hypothesis’, where the Gestalt is a pointby-point representation...
... log of this ratio, we find that the rate of change in this share equals the rate of change of P L , which is the rate of population a care expenditures on the elderly is: aging, and the rate of ... after the start of mortality decline, leading to a decline in the number of children and in the percentage of population in the child ages The large birth cohorts generated by the onset ofthe ... ―quantity-quality tradeoff‖ This tradeoff can mitigate the adverse effects of population aging on the economic support ratio by raising the quality and productivity ofthe smaller workforce Although the quantity-quality...
... The larval development ofthe prawns Macrobrachium equidens and Macrobrachium sp (Decapoda : Palaemonidae), reared in the laboratory Journal of Zoology Proceedings ofthe Zoological Society of ... der Wissenschaften Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe Wien 45: 389426 Holthuis, L B (1950) The Decapoda ofthe Siboga Expedition Part 10 The Palaemonidae collected by the Siboga and Snellius ... Decapoda) from the Xishuangbanna region of Yunnan province, southern China Hydrobiologia, 400: – 41 Cai, Y & P K L Ng (2001) The freshwater decapod crustaceans of Halmahera, Indonesia Journal of Crustacean...
... eight to eighty five and yet the favorite of each age group, N7, had a waist to hip ratio of or 70% So here is the definition of beauty as portrayed by the article The ideal man should be above ... psychologist at the University of Texas studying the attractive traits ofthe female figure His survey on attractive female figures gives an outlook on what men find most attractive According to the results ... waist-hip ratio of or 90% The ideal woman, on the other hand, should have large eyes, a small jaw, chin, and nose, full lips, firm, symmetrical breasts, unblemished skin, and a waist-hip ratio of or 70%...
... mitochondria, in the presence ofthe other members ofthe apoptosome, is a direct signal to apoptosis Apart from the mitochondrion as a key player in the apoptosis of neurons, the endoplasmic ... and clinicians, offering a fresh look at many (certainly not all) ofthe highly intertwined processes that determine the fate of CNS neurons in the face of acute or chronic insults The book is written ... oligonucleosomal DNA damage.275,276 Further evidence of apoptosis in excitotoxicity came with the examination ofthe activation of caspases in animal models of stroke 277 Inhibition of caspases in general by...
... area in the dorsal region ofthe cranial wall ofthe third endodermal pouch while the caudal portion ofthe very same pouch develops into the thymus which is involved in the maturation ofthe immune ... from the human PTH cDNA sequence15 and later confirmed by the determination ofthe structure ofthe human gene.16 The amino acid sequence ofthe rat pre-peptide was derived from the sequence ofthe ... over 200 bp ofthe intron, similar to the homology in the other non-translated regions ofthe genes The rat intron A is only 55-57% homologous to the other species The sequences of introns are...
... the number of founder cells, the time of onset of corticogenesis, the duration ofthe cell division cycle, the duration ofthe period of neurogenesis, the modes of cell division, the number of ... much less than the rest ofthe body The variety of face shapes in the diĂerent breeds of dog, which are all members ofthe same species, also provides a good example ofthe eĂects of diĂerential ... membrane) to the inner ear In the reptilian ancestors of mammals, the joint between the skull and the lower jaw was between the quadrate bone ofthe skull and the articular bone ofthe lower jaw,...
... swelling at the ventromedial side ofthe mesonephros Proliferation ofthe coelomic epithelium results in the generation ofthe gonadal primordium, which due to the presence or absence ofthe SRY ... either the HMG box or the C-terminal activation domain On the other hand, the extent of non-synonymous versus synonymous changes in the non-box regions of SRY, as well as the non-uniform rate of ... di¡erentiation ofthe testis as they participate with the Sertoli cells to form the epithelial testis LOVELL-BADGE ET AL cords The endothelial cells contribute to the characteristic vasculature ofthe testis,...
... scientists are often interested in the activity ofthe cortex The cortex is the thin layer of gray matter encasing the rest ofthebrain (or cerebrum) Thanks to its familiar folds and grooves, the cortex ... ages of man, the seven levels of hell, the seven primary colours, the seven notes ofthe musical scale, and the seven days ofthe week?” Miller’s idea is illustrated in Figure 1.1, where the xaxis ... stimulate the imagination, as Miller describes at the end: “What about the seven wonders ofthe world, the seven seas, the seven deadly sins, the seven daughters of Atlas in the Pleiades, the seven...
... is the foveal blind spot The wiring ofthe photocells ofthe vertebrate eye exit the cells on the inner face, not the exterior, ofthe retina Where they converge and together exit the eye, they ... their ratings ofthe pleasantness ofthe scent of a T-shirt, ofthe attractiveness of a person’s face (as presented in a photograph), or ofthe attractiveness of a person’s voice These “self-reports” ... that there was evolutionary maintenance ofthe glands during the evolutionary history of mammals Some kind of evolutionary mechanism must account for the retention ofthe glands in the Tree of...