Brain organization

The website continues, "The use of animal models to study neuro-developmental disorders has also been expanding, particularly here at UC Davis, which has schools of medicine and veterinary medieine, as well as a primate research center. Monkeys and other nonhuman primates have brains organized comparable to humans, making them ideal research models for the study of neuro-developmental disorders."... 

Goldman-Rakic PS Cortical locahzation of working memory, in Brain Organization and Memory Cells, Systems, and Circuits. Edited by Gaugh JL, Weinberger NM, Lynch G. New York, Oxford University Press, 1990... 

The endocannabinoid system plays a relevant role in brain organization during pre- and post-natal life. Cannabis sativa preparations are among the illicit drugs most commonly used by pregnant women in Western countries. Developmental exposure to cannabis is a major health problem due to its harmful effects, which are subtle and often long-lasting. The few clinical studies available... 

The pineal is one of the least understood of the brain organs until re-... 

McGaugh, J.L., N.M. Weinberger, and G. Lynch, eds. Brain Organization and Memory Cells, Systems and Circuits. New York Oxford University Press, 1992. 

Silver SM. Cerebral edema after rapid dialysis is not caused by an increase in brain organic osmoiytes.JAmSocNephrol. 1995 6 1600-... 

Enhancer regulation in the brain heralds a new line of research. It brings a different perspective to brain-organized, goal-oriented behavior since it seems to represent the device in the mammalian brain that operates as the... 

It seems reasonable to assume that, from a functional point of view, the appearance of species with the ability to acquire drives for unnatural goals was the last radical turning-point in the development of brain organization. In the animal kingdom the new mechanism reached its functionally most sophisticated level in the group of anthropoid apes, but it reached perfection in Homo sapiens only. The new mechanism culminated in the development of speech - the classic, human-specific instrument that made interpersonal communication possible by capturing reality in the form of symbols - and thus opened the way for the operation of an unrestricted variety of acquired drives. 

Ultimately, the current view of both American psychiatry and the World Health Organization is the soundest public statement yet about sexual orientation that bisexuality and homosexuality are natural sexual variations, that individual sexual orientations lie on a continuum, and that they are based on gene and/or environment-dependent neuroendocrine alterations of sexual brain organization. This set of ideas derives from... 

Dorner, G., Gotz, F., Rohde, W., Plagemann, A., Lindner, R., Peters, H., Ghanaati, Z. (2001). Genetic and epigenetic effects on sexual brain organization mediated by sex hormones. Neuro. Endocrinol. Lett. 22 403—409. 

Lacalli, T.C. (1996) Frontal eye circuitry, rostral sensory pathways and brain organization in amphioxus larvae evidence from 3D reconstructions . Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B, 351, 243-63. 

These latter two studies suggest that fetal lead exposure during the critical period of brain development may cause perturbations in brain organization that are expressed later in mental retardation syndromes, and they raise for careful scrutiny the issue of postnatal risks associated with intrauterine exposure to lead. Long-term prospective studies of the type described later are beginning to produce results which address that issue. 

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