PRECEDENT PHENOMENA IN A NEWSPAPER MACROTEXT: FUNCTIONAL PECULIARITIES

Functional Peculiarities of Hippocampal Theta-rhythm

The phenomenon of disappearance of the theta rhythm after lesioning of the septum and fornix has in its time stimulated a series of reports describing attempts to understand the roles of various structures in determining the electrical activity of the hippocampus and the functional significance of the theta rhythm. In chronic experiments with rabbits have shown that electrical destruction of do...

Precedent in the Making

Functional Phenomena in Organic Disease

ONE of my treasured possessions is a notebook, the clinical lectures of a very great teacher who had a clear, and one might say, a classifying mind. He dearly loved tables of contrast between the various forms of disease, and a classical example is his table of the points of difference-fifteen in number-between functional and organic nervous disease. I suppose it was my own fault, but certain m...

Unit precedent

Precedent and Doctrine in a Complicated World

Courts resolve individual disputes and create principles of law to justify their decisions and guide the resolution of future cases. Those tasks present informational challenges that affect the whole judicial process. Judges must simultaneously learn about (1) the particular facts and legal implications of any dispute; (2) discover the doctrine that appropriately resolves the dispute; and (3) a...