Schizophrenia before 1800

Exchange among Native Americans and Europeans before 1800 Strategies and Interactions

The prospect before her: a history of women in western Europe, volume one, 1500–1800

struggle of medical practitioners to assert their new authority as scientific professionals between 1870 and 1930. The shift towards the hiring of physicians rather than midwives, however, had little to do with an improved scientific training of physicians. As Borst points out in the case of Wisconsin, medical school training in childbirth was often no more "scientific" than, and indeed was fre...

Op-brai150137 1776..1800

The basal ganglia control body movements, value processing and decision-making. Many studies have shown that the inputs and outputs of each basal ganglia structure are topographically organized, which suggests that the basal ganglia consist of separate circuits that serve distinct functions. A notable example is the circuits that originate from the rostral (head) and caudal (tail) regions of th...

Synch before you speak: auditory hallucinations in schizophrenia.

OBJECTIVE Synchronization of neural activity preceding self-generated actions may reflect the operation of the forward model, which acts to dampen sensations resulting from those actions. If this is true, pre-action synchrony should be related to subsequent sensory suppression. Deficits in this mechanism may be characteristic of schizophrenia and related to positive symptoms, such as auditory h...

Cancer risk before schizophrenia diagnosis in Taiwan, 1995-2009.

The debate on whether schizophrenia precipitates or prevents cancers has lasted for over 1 century. 1 Earlier researches almost focused upon the crude cancer risk after schizophrenia diagnosis. Inconsistent and even conflicting cancer incidence ratios were published. The inconsistency could be due to various sources of confounding. Until 1994, Mortensen was the first to take into account differ...