Clio in the Clinic: History in Medical Practice. Edited by Jacalyn Duffin. (Toronto. University of Toronto Press, 2005. xxii + 334 p., ill. isbn 0-8020-3854-9 hc. $65 0-8020-3798-4 pb. 35$)

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Background: Freezing of gait (FOG) is a common, poorly understood, parkinsonian symptom interfering with daily functioning and quality of life. Assessment of FOG is complex because of the episodic nature of this symptom, and the influence of mental and environmental factors on it. Objective: To design a self-reportable reliable questionnaire for FOG. Method: A questionnaire consisting of 16 ite...

3 Review of “ Knots ” by Alexei Sossinsky , Harvard University Press , 2002 , ISBN 0 - 674 - 00944 - 4

”Butterfly knot, clove hitch knot, Gordian knot, hangman’s knot, vipers’ tangle knots are familiar objects, symbols of complexity, occasionally metaphors for evil. For reasons I do not entirely understand, they were long ignored by mathematicians. A tentative effort by Alexandre-Th[e]ophile Vandermonde at the end of the eighteenth century was short-lived, and a preliminary study by the young Ka...

Pii: S1353-8020(00)00044-4

Like the striatum, the frontal motor cortices receive dopaminergic ®bers from midbrain dopamine cells and contain high levels of dopamine receptors. Among frontal cortical areas, the dorsolateral PFC (PFd1) and the dorsal premotor cortex (PMd) have strong neural connections and play a major role for working memory-guided directional movements. To reveal the role of dopamine in this cognitive mo...

Critical Readings in Translation Studies, Edited by M. Baker (2010), Routledge, ISBN 978-0-415-46955-5

The Physiological Basis of Medical Practice: A University of Toronto Text in Applied Physiology

Best, IVI.A., IV!.D., D.Sc. (Lond.), F.R.S., F.R.C.P. (Canada), and W. B. Taylor, 1V1.D., F.R.S. (Canada), F.R.C.S. (Edin.), F.R.C.P. (Canada), M.R.C.S. (Eng.), L.R.C.P. (Lond.). Second Edition. 1939. Baiiliere, Tindall and Cox, London. Pp. xvi plus 1872. Illustrated. Price, 55s. The fact that this book, which was first published in 1937, was reprinted four times is in itself a sufficient proof...