VIROLOGY: Doing Triple Duty

Virology

This volume of the Handbook of Behavioral Neurobiology contains a wealth of information on the neural control of movement. Overall, the approach of the authors is to stress basic experimental data. Therefore, the book will be an excellent reference source for basic scientists as well as clinicians. The first chapters of the book examine the role of muscle in movement. These chapters discuss rec...

Virology.

Doing One’s Duty: Chronological Age, Felt Autonomy, and Subjective Well-Being

Existential, psychosocial, and organismic theories propose that human beings tend towards greater autonomy over the lifespan, and that greater autonomy is associated with greater happiness. We tested these two ideas in the under-studied domain of social duties by examining the associations between chronological age, felt autonomy while engaging in various social duties, and subjective well-bein...

Virology Discovery

Introduction: The Ramsay Hunt syndrome is characterized by herpetic lesions combined with peripheral facial nerve palsy. The disease is caused by a reactivation of the varicella zoster virus and can be deceiving since the herpetic lesions are not always present (zoster sine herpete) and might mimic other severe neurological illnesses. This article reviews the various forms of Ramsay Hunt syndro...

General Virology

"Should I just reminisce?" So wondered Dr. M. Ralph Kaufman, an elderly participant in the April 1973 conference after which this book is titled (p. 347). The number and quality of some of the historical papers presented surprised him and he wondered how formal or spontaneous his own contribution should be. Kaufman's puzzlement-recollections or research-reveals the tension of the conference and...