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Surgery Is Controlled Trauma

The title of this post is a quote from this very enjoyable and easy to read book, Another Day in the Frontal Lobe: A Brain Surgeon Exposes Life on the Inside, written by Katrina Firlik. Ive already loaned the book to my daughter, so I cant go into too much...

Tags: General, Investment, Blogging, surgery, Brian Berliner, neurosurgeon, Katrina, Frontal Lobe, Katrina Firlik, venture capital, Closest

Blog posts 2006-12-21

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MRI Study of Caudate Nucleus Volume and Its Cognitive Correlates in Neuroleptic-Naive Patients With Schizotypal Personality Disorder

"Cognitive" circuits anatomically link the frontal lobe to subcortical structures; therefore, pathology in any of the core components of these circuits, such as in the caudate nucleus, may result in neurobehavioral syndromes similar to those of the frontal lobe. Neuroleptic medication, however, affects the size of the caudate nucleus. For...

Tags: President, Harvard College

White papers 2002-07-01

Visual Perception and Working Memory in Schizotypal Personality Disorder

Patients affected by schizophrenia show deficits in both visual perception and working memory. The authors tested early-stage vision and working memory in subjects with schizotypal personality disorder, which has been biologically associated with schizophrenia. These data suggest that subjects with schizotypal personality disorder, unlike patients affected by schizophrenia, have relatively...

Tags: Memory, American Psychiatric Association, Flash Memory

White papers 2000-05-01

The kids are not all right: family values via the V-chip

Are we really ready for the "V-chip" -- V as in "violence"? The microchip is being hustled as a solvent in the squabble about violence and sex on the tube. If its use becomes law, the chip would be surgically implanted in the right frontal lobe of all infants --...

Tags: HARDWARE, microchip, Semiconductors, TVs, U.S. Senate, violence

Research articles 1995-08-21

fMRI of Triggerable Aurae in Musicogenic Epilepsy

This paper provides information on a patient with musicogenic epilepsy triggered by one specific musical piece using 3D PRESTO fMRI. During epileptic aurae initiated by the stimulus, signal increases were found in the left anterior temporal lobe, correlating with ictal EEG and SPECT showing a left anterior temporal focus, and...

Tags: Music, American Academy Of Neurology

White papers 2003-02-03