Greenfield; The Human Brain
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Greenfield; Human Brain 4 Greek physician Galen (A.D. 129 -- 199)
Greenfield; Human Brain 12 Paul Maclean in the 1940s and 1950s. 8
Greenfield; Human Brain 15 Cortex is about 2 mm thick. 3
Greenfield; Human Brain 18 Phineas Gage. 3
Greenfield; Human Brain 22 Parkinson's disease was originally named after James Parkinson, who first reported the condition and 1817. 4
Greenfield; Human Brain 30 Magnetoencephalography (MEG) measures they magnetic field generated by differential electrical activity of the brain. 8
Greenfield; Human Brain 33 From the subtleties of body language to the precision of the spoken word to the unambiguity of a simple hug, virtually all communication relies on movement. 3
Greenfield; Human Brain 42 The generation of movement is the net result of many brain regions acting together. 9
Greenfield; Human Brain 43 The hands and the mouth have an enormous, vastly disproportionate representation in somatosensory cortex. 1
Greenfield; Human Brain 46 All bird eyes are fixed in their sockets.  In order to turn their eyes, birds have to turn their entire head and neck. 3
Greenfield; Human Brain 48 The thalamus occupies a substantial part of the middle section of the brain (diencephalon). 2
Greenfield; Human Brain 51 Syndromes reported as a result of the head wounds in World War I were later named Blindsight in the 1970s. 3
Greenfield; Human Brain 52 Prosopagnosia -- Greek meaning "failure to recognize faces." 1
Greenfield; Human Brain 52 Whereas Blindsight entales recognition without awareness, Prosopagnosia entails awareness without recognition. 0
Greenfield; Human Brain 52 Perceptions are unified wholes, shot through with memories, hopes, prejudices, and other internalized cognitive idiosyncrasies. 0
Greenfield; Human Brain 54 Arousal is an important consideration in our prevailing state of mind. 2
Greenfield; Human Brain Psychologists have long ago found that we are most efficient in performing tasks when we are in the middle range level of arousal. -54
Greenfield; Human Brain 56 Four stages of sleep, distinguished by different patterns of electricity recorded from the scalp. 56
Greenfield; Human Brain 57 Humans can spend a total of 1 1/2 to 2 hours dreaming. 1
Greenfield; Human Brain 57 The longest recorded single period of continuous REM sleep is about two hours. 0
Greenfield; Human Brain 60 Pineal gland is important in regulating sleep and wakefulness. 3
Greenfield; Human Brain 63 It was one of the greatest recent discoveries in neuroscience, in the early 1970s, that the brain possesses its own morphine like substance, enkephalin. 3
Greenfield; Human Brain 89 Many antidepressants act by enhancing the availability of serotonin. 26
Greenfield; Human Brain 89 The most popular antidepressant to date, Prozac. 0
Greenfield; Human Brain 121 Identical twins are clones of each other; they are two people with identical genes, because this single fertilized egg split into two. 32
Greenfield; Human Brain 122 Experience is a key factor in shaping the microcircuitry of the brain. 1
Greenfield; Human Brain 122 The process of evolving a unique brain is perhaps most dramatic up to and including the teenage years. 0
Greenfield; Human Brain 122 Octopus has one of the largest brains of all invertebrates. 0
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