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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The branch of anatomy that deals with the nervous system.
- noun The neural structure of a body part or organ.
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- noun anatomy The
anatomy of thenervous system - noun anatomy The
structure of thenerves of a specificorgan ororganism
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- noun the anatomy of the nervous system
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Snow (UID#1832) on September 6th, 2009 at 3: 29 pm ok fair point but if they are still finding evidence of the mind and thought in neuroanatomy via chemical reactinos within the brain, whats to stop them finding evidence somewhere further down the track of a supernatural fingerprint? it was once widly thought that the world was flat.
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Doesn't it feel like we've been transported to the surface of some strange planet where, due to a local quirk in neuroanatomy, the inhabitants find the subjective/objective distinction to be as arcane as string theory is on Earth?
Carry-Over Thread 2007
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Regarding these two threads: Doesn't it feel like we've been transported to the surface of some strange planet where, due to a local quirk in neuroanatomy, the inhabitants find the subjective/objective distinction to be as arcane as string theory is on Earth?
Carry-Over Thread 2007
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Regarding these two threads: Doesn't it feel like we've been transported to the surface of some strange planet where, due to a local quirk in neuroanatomy, the inhabitants find the subjective/objective distinction to be as arcane as string theory is on Earth?
Carry-Over Thread 2007
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Walle Nauta in neuroanatomy, Joseph Brady and Murray Sidman in experimental psychology and John Mason in chemistry.
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One example I shall give you -- it is in neuroanatomy -- the physician must be able to locate and bring to mind the names of the nerves that run directly from the brain.
Message of Munich 1972
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In vertebrates it consists of the brain, spinal cord, nerves, ganglia and parts of the receptor and effector organs. neuroscience Any of the sciences, such as neuroanatomy and neurobiology, that deal with the nervous system. proteins Molecules that contain carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen and usually sulfur.
Science News / Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, News Items and Book Reviews 2009
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Nor have we needed the finer developments of functional neuroanatomy to tell us that brain damage causes changes in behaviour, thus undermining simplistic notions of free will or criminal culpability.
Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain by David Eagleman – review 2011
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Belief is the appropriate term, because Incognito isn't precisely an examination of neuroanatomy or neurological case histories; nor is it an exploration of the philosophical struggle involved in explaining the relationship between brain and mind.
Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain by David Eagleman – review 2011
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But before readers can profitably learn about the connections, they need to understand something about neural physiology, neurotransmitters, synapses and neuroanatomy.
The Ultimate Brain Quest Daniel J. Levitin 2012
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