I wrote this book urged by the overwhelming desire that arises towards the end of life to recapitulate the past. My goal was to summarize my experience of practicing science at the end of the 20th and early 21st centuries in Argentina, a country located far away from the world s leading scientific centers. In the book, I summarize the intricacies of the pineal gland ( the stone of madness ) as historical, mystical and medical entity and its entry in contemporary medicine with the description of melatonin. I also reflect on how being associated with an unexplored subject at the beginning of...
I wrote this book urged by the overwhelming desire that arises towards the end of life to recapitulate the past. My goal was to summarize my experienc...
This book will discuss the autonomic nervous system (ANS) from both an enlarged and a timed perspective. First, it presents how the organization of the ANS is hierarchical into different levels. Following that, the book discusses how the ANS changes functionally in the three-body configurations (wakefulness, slow sleep, rapid eye movement sleep) found in a 24-hour cycle. Finally, the most important clinical implications of this enlarged and timed vision of ANS will be discussed.
The ANS, in charge of the innervation of smooth muscle of all organs and of the heart, immune tissue and...
This book will discuss the autonomic nervous system (ANS) from both an enlarged and a timed perspective. First, it presents how the organization of...
