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Is there a sex difference in the course following traumatic brain injury?

Females age 30 years or older had poorer outcome than either males or younger
females.
More info:
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=A15068659&lis\
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Minds Behind the Brain: A History of the Pioneers and Their Discoveries
by Stanley Finger
Neuroscience is steadily replacing psychology, philosophy, and even religion as
a model of self-understanding -- here are the pioneers, from Cajal, Sperry,
Galen, to Descartes.
More info:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/019508571X/top100
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Theophylline compared to methylphenidate for ADHD in children
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15068402

Children on the borderlands of autism
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15070548

Autistic disorder in nineteenth-century London
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15070544

The broad autism phenotype
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15070545

Stroke and neurodegenerative disorders. 2. Stroke
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15034851

Transient high altitude neurological dysfunction
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15072718

Endocrine abnormalities in critical care patients with moderate-to-severe head
trauma
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15069597

Is there a Sex Difference in the Course Following Traumatic Brain Injury?
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15068659

Patterns of use--alternative health care practitioners.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15069805

Cognitive tasks for driving a brain-computer interfacing system
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15068187

Plasticity in the human cerebral cortex
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15070490

Neuronal synchronization and selective color processing in the human brain.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15072684

The role of actin in the regulation of dendritic spine morphology and
bidirectional synaptic plasticity.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15073524

Spike-timing-dependent plasticity
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15070504

On the neurobiological investigation of language understanding in context.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15068912

Language reorganization in children with early-onset lesions of the left
hemisphere
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15069021

Sources of information about MDMA (3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine)
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15072806

Alcohol, nutrition and health maintenance
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15070441

The role of pharmacoepidemiology in pharmacovigilance
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15073887

Gender-specific vulnerability for rCBF abnormalities among cocaine abusers.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15073517

Cocaine self-administration produces a progressive involvement of limbic,
association, and sensorimotor striatal domains.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15071103

Effectiveness of the community reinforcement approach in alcohol, cocaine and
opioid addiction.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15072802

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