Integrative Physiological and Behavioral Science articles from January 2000

Integrative Physiological and Behavioral Science archives from January 2000

Cholesterol's Role in Atherosclerosis.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... A LONG TIME thoroughly fixed medical dogma declares that dietary cholesterol is the primary cause of atherosclerosis. This firm conviction has recently been challenged by a scholarly member of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada, Dr. Sean...

A Pavlovian in Spirit: Richard Annells Champion (1925-1999).
January 1, 2000... RICHARD (DICK) CHAMPION'S student and faculty positions were all at the University of Sydney, and he was never a member of the Pavlovian Society. On any measure of contemporary scholarly influence such as citation indices, the current impact of...

Revisiting the Learning-Without-Awareness Question in Human Pavlovian Autonomic Conditioning: Focus on Extinction in a Dichotic Listening Paradigm.
January 1, 2000... JOHN J. FUREDY [1] BORIS DAMKE [2] WOLFRAM BOUCSEIN [2] Abstract--Numerous studies have indicated that, consistent with current "cognitive" accounts of information processing, human Pavlovian autonomic discrimination acquisition...

Theory of the Organism-Environment System: IV. The Problem on Mental Activity and Consciousness.
January 1, 2000... Abstract--The present article is an attempt to bring together the development of mental activity and consciousness in the framework of the organism-environment theory (Jarvilehto, 1998a. 1998b, 1999); the main question is how the development of...

Interdisciplinary Research: A Philosophy, Art Form, Artifact or Antidote?
January 1, 2000... Abstract--Interdisciplinary research has many faces--a philosophy, an art form, an artifact, and an antidote. It is all of these things because interdisciplinary research attempts to ask questions in ways that cut across disciplinary...

Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention.(Review)
January 1, 2000... By: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Harper Perennial Publishers, 1997. This is the author's reflections on his past experiences as a creative scientist. He enhances his perception of the guideposts that guided him in his own work by...

Cardiac Electrophysiology.(Review)
January 1, 2000... By: Douglas R Zipes and Jose Jalife W.B. Saunders Company, 1990. This large multi-authored book deals primarily with the technical (molecular, cellular, pumps, and channels) aspect of cardiology rather than clinical features. More...

Science and Human Transformation: Subtle Energies, Intentionality, and Consciousness.(Review)
January 1, 2000... By: William Tiller, Ph.D. Pavior Publishers, California, 1997. The distinguished author of this book aims to encourage the reader to realize his or her full potential. He deals with the potentials from a sociological perspective...

The Theoretical Foundation of Dendritic Function: Selected Papers of Wilrid Rail with Commentaries.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Edited by: Idan Segev, John Rinzel, and Gordon M. Shepherd MIT Press, 1995. Pages 424. $55.00. This is a very timely and thoroughly explanatory text of the complex functions of neural; dendrites. It relies heavily on the pioneering...

Woodrow Wilson: A Psychological Study.(Review)
January 1, 2000... By: Sigmund Freud and William C. Bullitt Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, NJ, 1999. Pages 307. $24.95. Bullitt, the statesman, and Freud, the psychiatrist, had been friends for some years when Bullitt decided to write a critical...

A Compendium of Neuropsychological Tests: Administration, Norms, and Commentary.(Review)
January 1, 2000... By: Otfried Spreen and Esther Strauss Oxford University Press, 1991. Tests designed to evaluate various intellectual capacities are tricky indeed because testing the subject's collection of information rarely throws light on his or her...

Development of the Cerebellar System in Relation to its Evolution, Structure, and Functions.(Review)
January 1, 2000... By: Joseph Altman and Shirley Bayer CRC Press, 1997. This is an extremely well written account of the development of the cerebellum in man by evolution and otherwise. Although the cerebellum is not involved in thinking or planning,...

Physiological Basis of Aging and Geriatrics: Second Edition.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Edited by: Paola S. Timiras CRC Press, New York, 1994. Pages 326. $99.95 This is a valuable book. It is focused on an important clinical issue, aging and how to deal with aging patients. The author first addresses in an enlightening...

Costs of War.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Edited by: John V. Denson Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, NJ, 1999. $29.95. The author has brought forward a powerful sociological expose of disastrous international judgements of the 20th century and a severe critique of the...

Patterns of Human Growth.(Review)
January 1, 2000... By: Barry Bogin Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pages 455. $39.95. This book is about us, human beings. It is clearly the work of a distinguished scholar. This book explores many kinds of growth. Although the main emphasis of the...

A Guide for Authors.(Review)
January 1, 2000... By: Payne E.L. Thomas Charles C. Thomas Publishers, 1972. 87 pages. This book provides immense help and encouragement to new authors of scientific books. The book begins with helpful advice on how to present a new book to a potential...

Choices in Healing.(Review)
January 1, 2000... By: Michael Lerner MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1994. 667 pages. $17.50 This is an immensely encouraging book by a very wise man, widely educated, but not a physician. The book was written to guide and encourage patients with cancer. ...

Deceits of the Mind: And Their Effects on the Body.(Review)
January 1, 2000... By: Jane G.Goldberg Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, London, 1991. 297 pages. Anyone who observes the effects of life experiences and their psychological interpretation in the brain will acknowledge that even if the event had...

How Musical is Man?(Review)
January 1, 2000... By: John Blacking University of Washington Press, 1974. 116 pages. $6.95 This fascinating little book emerges from the author's John Danz lectures at the University of Washington, Seattle. His emphasis is on the social significance of...