Wat elke professional over het geheugen moet weten geeft een overzicht over de vele verschijnselen, ideeën en verklaringen over aspecten van het geheugen. Men kan daarbij denken aan het langetermijngeheugen voor gebeurtenissen en kennis, maar ook het werkgeheugen en het leren van vaardigheden en andere vormen van leren zoals het conditioneren. De relatie met slaap en emotie, het fotografisch geheugen en ‘geheugenwonders’ komen aan de orde, evenals de jaarlijks terugkerende vraag h...

Franz Joseph Gall (1758-1828) was always a controversial figure, as was his doctrine, later called phrenology. Although often portrayed as a discredited buffoon, who believed he could assess a person's strengths and weaknesses by measuring cranial bumps, he was, in fact, a serious physician-scientist, who strove to answer timely questions about the mind, brain, and behavior. In many ways a remarkable visionary, his seminal ideas would become tenets of modern behavioral neuroscience. Among ...

Summarises the current advances in IWM, such as the use of technology to allow for more informed decision making (e.g. decision support systems (DSS) and sensor technology)Discusses the challenges continually faced by the sector, including herbicide resistance, invasive species, climate change and how best to deploy the range of non-chemical control methods availableProvides examples of the practical application of IWM and its optimisation in the field on differen...

Connections define the functions of neurons: information flows along connections, as well as growth factors and viruses, and even neuronal death can progress through connections. Accordingly, knowing how the various parts of the brain are interconnected to form functional systems is a prerequisite for properly understanding data from all fields in the neurosciences.Clinical Neuroanatomy: Brain Circuitry and Its Disorders bridges the gap between neuroanatomy and clinical ne...

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During the 1790s in Vienna, German physician Franz Joseph Gall (1758-1828) came forth with a new doctrine dealing with mind, brain and behavior—one that could account for individual differences. He maintained that there are many independent faculties of mind, each associated with a separate part of the brain. He fine-tuned his ideas and published two sets of books presenting them after he and his assistant, Johann Gaspar Spurzheim, settled in Paris in 1807.Gall's ideas had many sup...