X-Nico

unusual facts about nervous system



André Leroi-Gourhan

What characterises humanity in its distinction from animals is thus the fact that tools and technology are a third kind of memory (in addition to the genetic memory contained in DNA and the individual memory of the nervous system), and thus a new form of anticipation, or programming.

Connectomics

Because these structures are extremely complex, methods within this field use a high-throughput application of neural imaging and histological techniques in order to increase the speed, efficiency, and resolution of maps of the multitude of neural connections in a nervous system.

Electrophysiological techniques for clinical diagnosis

The demyelination and scarring of axons in the neurons of the nervous system can affect their conduction properties and seriously harm the normal communication of the brain with the rest of the body.

European Society for Neurochemistry

The European Society for Neurochemistry (ESN) is a professional society for neurochemists and neuroscientists from Europe whose research concerns the role and interactions of small molecules in the function, and pathology of the nervous system.

Heinrich Wilhelm Gottfried von Waldeyer-Hartz

Heinrich Wilhelm Gottfried von Waldeyer-Hartz (6 October 1836, Hehlen an der Weser, Braunschweig, Germany – 23 January 1921, Berlin) was a German anatomist, famous for consolidating the neuron theory of organization of the nervous system and for naming the chromosome.


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Acetylcholinesterase

In the central nervous system it is associated with PRiMA which stands for Proline Rich Membrane anchor to form symmetric form.

Alphabet für Liège

Johannes Kneutgen, who performed situation 11 at the Liège premiere, was a scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Behavioral Physiology in Seewiesen, conducting research on the physiological effects of music or rhythm on the body and nervous system.

Angélique Arvanitaki

She was married to Nick Chalazonitis, who was also a neurophysiologist; they both explored the methodology of electrophysiological activity of the nervous system of the sea hare genus Aplysia.

Arachnoid

Arachnoid mater, a layer of the meninges, membranes that contain the central nervous system

Brown-Séquard syndrome

French physician, Paul Loye, attempted to confirm Brown-Séquard's observations on the nervous system by experimentation with decapitation of dogs and other animals and recording the extent of each animal's movement after decapitation: Death by Decapitation journal The American Journal of the Medical Sciences in the year 1889, Volume 97, Issue 4, Page 387.

Charcot disease

Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease, an inherited demyelinating disease of the peripheral nervous system

Clinical neurophysiology

Evoked potentials: Diagnostic test evaluating specific tracts of the central and peripheral nervous system.

Constantin von Economo

In Nancy, he was introduced to hypnosis (under Hippolyte Bernheim), in Strasbourg he got in contact with methods of microscopic research of the nervous system (under Albrecht von Bethe).

Controversies related to chronic fatigue syndrome

In a letter to the Lancet in 1993, psychiatrists David and Wessely contested the WHO classification of CFS under diseases of the nervous system, arguing that it was a form of neurasthenia to be classified as a psychiatric condition.

Crying

T. Berry Brazelton has suggested that overstimulation may be a contributing factor to infant crying and that periods of active crying might serve the purpose of discharging overstimulation and helping the baby’s nervous system regain homeostasis.

D33

the ICD-10 code for a benign neoplasm of brain and other parts of central nervous system

D43

the ICD-10 code for a neoplasm of uncertain or unknown behaviour of brain and central nervous system

Familial amyloid neuropathy

Alternatively, a European Medicines Agency approved drug Tafamidis or Vyndaqel now exists which stabilizes transthyretin tetramers comprising wild type and different mutant subunits against amyloidogenesis halting the progression of peripheral neuropathy and autonomic nervous system dysfunction.

Fear and the Nervous System

In early 2008, Korn guitarist James "Munky" Shaffer announced plans to release a new project entitled Fear and the Nervous System (probably a reference to Michael Powell's 1960 film "Peeping Tom").

Frédéric Labadie-Lagrave

Labadie-Lagrave translated the first American treatise about neurology, W. A. Hammond's Diseases of the nervous system, C. A. Wunderlich's pioneer German book on body temperature Das Verhalten der Eigenwärme in Krankheiten and Siegmund Rosenstein's Die Pathologie und Therapie der Nierenkrankheiten.

Gabrielle Upton

She was also a board member of Neuroscience Research Australia, one of Australia's largest research centres on the brain and nervous system, from 2007 to 2011 and a Fellow of the Law Faculty at the University of New South Wales.

History of pain theory

Filippo Pacini had isolated receptors in the nervous system which detect pressure and vibrations in 1831.

Interleukin 13

The eggs of the parasite Schistosoma mansoni may lodge in a variety of organs including the gut wall, liver, lung and even central nervous system, inducing the formation of granulomas under the control of IL-13.

Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine

Dedicated to finding a cure for paralysis resulting from spinal cord injury, researchers at the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis found the first direct evidence of successful regeneration of adult human central nervous system tissue.

Lockjaw

Tetanus, an infectious disease of the central nervous system.

Ludwig Büchner

From 1842 to 1848 he studied physics, chemistry, botany, mineralogy, philosophy and medicine at the University of Giessen, where he graduated in 1848 with a dissertation entitled Beiträge zur Hall'schen Lehre von einem excitomotorischen Nervensystem (Contributions to the Hallerian Theory of an Excitomotor Nervous System).

Michael Taussig

He argues that we live in a state of emergency, citing Walter Benjamin, that is not ‘an exception but the rule.’ To show the universality of the nervous system he takes his reader through the heights of Macchu Picchu, the world of Cuna shamans, and the pale world of New York’s hospital system.

Nerve induction

Other similar devices include Long Range Acoustic Devices which use painful directed sound waves, and electroshock weapons such as Tasers, which deliver an incapacitating shock to the nervous system.

Nervous System Checking

Nervous System Checking is a 4-track EP, released in 2007 from Infernal Poetry.

Oneironautics

Simstim, a technology in William Gibson's Sprawl trilogy of science fiction novels, whereby a person's brain and nervous system is stimulated to simulate the full sensory experience of another person.

Paraphasia

The term was apparently introduced in 1877 by the German-English physician Julius Althaus in his book on Diseases of the Nervous System, in a sentence reading, "In some cases there is a perfect chorea or delirium of words, which may be called paraphasia".

Parkinson

Parkinson's disease, degenerative disorder of the central nervous system

Paul Knoepfler

Knoepfler did his postdoctoral studies at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in the laboratory of Bob Eisenman, studying Myc regulation of chromatin in stem cells and cancers of the nervous system.

Protective autoimmunity

The term ‘protective autoimmunity’ was coined by Prof. Michal Schwartz of the Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel), whose pioneering studies were the first to demonstrate that autoimmune T lymphocytes can have a beneficial role in repair, following an injury to the central nervous system (CNS).

Reticular theory

W. His in Leipzig studied the embryological development of the central nervous system and concluded that his observations were consistent with the classic cell theory (that nerve cells were individual cells), and not the reticular theory.

Revolt of the Muckers

Jacobina Mentz, a local inhabitant, suffered from epileptic attacks, since childhood, then she was seen as the victim of a disorder of the nervous system, aggravated by elements of religious nature.

Rick Shapiro

On April 25, 2013, Shapiro was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, a degenerative disorder that attacks the central nervous system.

Roach bait

The active ingredient Fipronil .05% disrupts the insect central nervous system, leading to the cockroach’s death in 6 to 24 hours.

Secretin

In 1902, William Bayliss and Ernest Starling were studying how the nervous system controls the process of digestion.

SEMA4D

By binding plexin B1 receptor it functions as an R-Ras GTPase-activating protein (GAP) and repels axon growth cones in both the mature central nervous system.

Urofacial syndrome

The HPSE2 gene is expressed in both the central nervous system as well as the bladder.

W. H. Gaskell

In 1889 he won their Royal Medal for his contributions both to cardiac physiology and to the anatomy and physiology of the sympathetic nervous system.