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Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family is a 2020 non-fiction book by Robert Kolker.The book is an account of the Galvin family of Colorado Springs, Colorado, a mid 20th-century American family with twelve children (ten boys and two girls), six of whom were diagnosed with schizophrenia (notably all boys).
He was born in Newbury, Berkshire the son of John Langley, the local schoolmaster, and his wife, Mary Groom. He was educated at Exeter Grammar School in Devon.In 1871 he won a place at St John's College, Cambridge, where he graduated MA before continuing multiple postgraduate studies, gaining several doctorates.
A Manual of Diseases of the Nervous System, also known as the ‘Bible of Neurology’, is a medical textbook by William Gowers. It was first published in 1886 by P. Blackiston & Son. A second volume appeared in 1888. [1] [2] [3] [4]
The following diagram is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the human nervous system: Human nervous system. Human nervous system – the part of the human body that coordinates a person's voluntary and involuntary actions and transmits signals between different parts of the body. The human nervous system consists of two main parts ...
The enteric nervous system functions to control the gastrointestinal system. Nerves that exit from the brain are called cranial nerves while those exiting from the spinal cord are called spinal nerves. The nervous system consists of nervous tissue which, at a cellular level, is defined by the presence of a special type of cell, called the ...
The book attempts to at least introduce every aspect of our most modern understanding of the brain. The sixth edition is divided into sixty-four chapters, organized into nine parts: Part I: Overall Perspective; Part II: Cell and Molecular Biology of Cells of the Nervous System; Part III: Synaptic Transmission; Part IV: Perception; Part V: Movement
Nervous system diseases, also known as nervous system or neurological disorders, refers to a small class of medical conditions affecting the nervous system.This category encompasses over 600 different conditions, including genetic disorders, infections, cancer, seizure disorders (such as epilepsy), conditions with a cardiovascular origin (such as stroke), congenital and developmental disorders ...