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Organization Of Brainstem Nuclei, George Paxinos, Xu-Feng Huang, Gulgun Sengul, Charles Watson
Organization Of Brainstem Nuclei, George Paxinos, Xu-Feng Huang, Gulgun Sengul, Charles Watson
Xu-Feng Huang
This chapter describes human homologs of nuclei identified in the brainstem of other mammals and attempts to extend to the human the overall organizational schemata that have been proposed for the brainstem of other mammalian species. We present herein updated diagrams of the Atlas of the Human Brainstem (Paxinos and Huang, 1995). The diagrams have been thoroughly revised in light of our recent work on the rat (Paxinos and Watson, 2007) and rhesus monkey (Paxinos et al., 3rd ed, in BrainNavigator, Elsevier, 2010) as well as our work on the marmoset (Atlas of the Marmoset Brain in Stereotaxic Coordinates, Paxinos …
Reaching To Multiple Targets When Standing: The Spatial Organization Of Feedforward Postural Adjustments, Julia Leonard, Ryan Brown, Paul Stapley
Reaching To Multiple Targets When Standing: The Spatial Organization Of Feedforward Postural Adjustments, Julia Leonard, Ryan Brown, Paul Stapley
Dr Paul J Stapley
We examined the spatial organization of feedforward postural adjustments produced prior to and during voluntary arm reaching movements executed while standing. We sought to investigate whether the activity of postural muscles before and during reaching was directionally tuned and whether a strategy of horizontal force constraint could be observed. To this end, eight human subjects executed self-paced reach-to-point movements on the random illumination of one of 13 light targets placed within a 180° array centered along the midline of the body. Analysis was divided into two periods: a first corresponding to the 250 ms preceding the onset of the reaching …
Better Learning In Schools To Improve Attitudes Toward Abstinence And Intentions For Safer Sex Among Adolescents In Urban Nepal, Rachana Manandhar Shrestha, Keiko Otsuka, Krishna C. Poudel, Junko Yasuoka, Medin Lamichhane, Masamine Jimba
Better Learning In Schools To Improve Attitudes Toward Abstinence And Intentions For Safer Sex Among Adolescents In Urban Nepal, Rachana Manandhar Shrestha, Keiko Otsuka, Krishna C. Poudel, Junko Yasuoka, Medin Lamichhane, Masamine Jimba
Krishna C. Poudel
Background: School-based sex education is an effective medium to convey health information and skills about preventing sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and unwanted pregnancies among adolescents. However, research on school-based sex education is limited in many developing countries, including Nepal. This study thus had two main objectives: (1) to assess students’ evaluation of school-based sex education, and (2) to examine the associations between students’ evaluations of school-based sex education and their (a) attitudes toward abstinence and (b) intentions for safer sex. Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted among 634 students from six schools in the Kathmandu Valley during May–June 2010. We …