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The major senses - Dana review
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- 2243. Taste, gustatory gatekeeper - review
- We spend much of our lives eating, view our sense of taste primarily as a source of pleasure—and perhaps a lamentable temptation to excess. Taste is also a vigilant gatekeeper of the body, evolved to reject what is harmful.
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- 2238. Perception
- A overview of perception-related content on Genes to Cognition Online.
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- 2071. The chemical senses
- Professor Pierre Lledo introduces the two main chemical senses - smell (olfaction) and taste.
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- 10484. The exhibit of the Third International Congress of Eugenics (2)
- The exhibit of the Third International Congress of Eugenics (2)
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- 2242. Balance and coordination - review
- Reaching for a pencil, grasping a doorknob, skiing, and tightrope walking—to name but a few physical actions—all involve well-coordinated movements made with well-balanced postures.
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- 1434. Do Flies Have Cognition?
- Doctor Josh Dubnau discusses some remarkably sophisticated behaviors in fruit flies that suggest that they do have cognition.
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- 2245. Hearing and hearing problems — review
- Sound is a mechanical energy, meaning it depends on something moving—in most cases, the air. That energy is transmitted to your inner ear through the ear canal and middle ear components.
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- 2179. Alzheimer's disease neuropathology - stages
- Professor Donna Wilcock describes the neuropathology of Alzheimer's disease as it progresses from the hippocampus to other brain areas.
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- 1118. Hallucinations - Olfactory, Visual, and Somatic
- Dr. Sukhi Shergill describes the different types of hallucinations schizophrenic patients can experience.
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- 2234. Dyslexia
- Dyslexia is a brain disorder that primarily affects a person’s ability to read and write. In fact, the word’s Greek roots simply mean "language problems."
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