Communication: The Language of Science

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Tests

1) Greenfield

2) Zamyatin

►Test prep: Susan Greenfield / Zamyatin

►Zamyatin: We

Zamyatin's We (criticism :  1 2)

►Argumentation & Structure new ►spliced commas ►Kurt Vonnegut ►Greenfield on genes & environment ►brain
 

GK 2004

● fictional

● non-fictional

Alzheimer's

Alois Alzheimer
 Marks of Alzheimer's Seen in Last Murdoch Novel
 Healthy Aging
03-07-03 NPR
Changing Face of Alzheimer's NPR Nov 03
Encarta online
Alheimers.org.uk
pbs.org: forgetting

Young Man, Old Body

BBC Radio 4, 9/03
LONI (neuro imaging)
 Learning to Speak Alzheimer's Oct 03
Talk of the nation

Parkinsons
Parkinson's Disease
Parkinson's Disease Society
Neurosurgery.org
Wikipedia

 Iris Murdoch (Movie)
Iris Murdoch 1919-1999

Internet Movie Database

Iris Murdoch resources

alternative movie:

A Beautiful Mind

M. Stotz on Murdoch
 

Neuro Sciences
Neuromarketing and Mind Machines
Neuromarketing overview
The Word Spy: Neuromarketing
Why We Prefer Pepsi and Drink Coke Anyway
Neuroscience for kids
Mind Wide Open
 
Drugs
Andro / NPR Search
 

 

Navigation / Overview [under construction]     [Copenhagen]
Susan Greenfield Medical Aspects Alzheimer Patients Fictional Approach

LONI

 Charlton Heston

Susan Greenfield

Biography Susan Greenfield was both an undergraduate and graduate at Oxford, but has subsequently spent time in postdoctoral research at the College de France, Paris, with Professor J Glowinski and at the New York University Medical Centre, New York, with Professor R Llinas.

As a consequence of working in both biochemical and electrophysiological environments she has developed a multidisciplinary approach to exploring novel neuronal mechanisms in the brain that are common to regions affected in both Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease.  more ....

Brain Story Author/Presenter: Professor Susan Greenfield

The human brain remains the last great unconquered frontier of science. Somehow, that mass of grey sludge locked inside our skulls creates a whole inner world heaving with emotions, memories, ideas and desires. Everything we see, touch, hear and feel - the illusion of reality - is generated by this inscrutable organ. more ...

TRACKING MEMORY'S DECLINE

Powerful imaging techniques can detect changes, over time, in parts of the human brain linked to Alzheimer's and related disorders.

Target Areas: Frontal, Parietal, Temporal Areas

Important centers for a variety of memory functions: verbal, visual, new memory, working memory, etc. PET scanners can detect levels of glucose metabolism in areas of the brain that are important for memory.

WSJ

1. The hippocampus - Deep inside the brain, the hippocampus is important for learning and short-term memory. Believed to be the site where short-term memory is converted to long-term for storage elsewhere in the brain. Repeated MRI scans over time can reveal volume loss.

2. Entorhinal cortex - Scientists believe that Alzheimer's dementia begins here. It's an area with direct connections to the hippocampus. Degeneration can interfere with the ability of the hippocampus to get information from the rest of the brain. This region begins to atrophy or shrink, probably 10 to 20 years before any visible signs or symptoms appear.

Sources: National Institute on Aging; New York University School of Medicine (PET, MRI images)

tau and neurofibrillary tangles

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entorhinal cortex + hippocampus

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neuron = nerve cell

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synapse + neurotransmitter

Famous Alzheimer's Patients

List of famous Alzheimer patients: Ronald Reagan, Rita Hayworth, Iris Murdoch, Winston Churchill, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Ford, Maurice Ravel ..... (read more)

Did you know that Alzheimer’s disease can affect even the rich and famous?

Former President of USA, Mr Ronald Reagan, has Alzheimer’s disease.

Many myths and misconceptions prevail about Alzheimer’s disease. It is not only the common man but some physicians too who lack a proper understanding of this disease.

http://w3.whosea.org/alzheimer/myths.htm

Why We Dig Charlton Heston

Charlton Heston, simply put, is the greatest leading man in film history. The charisma, dignity, grace and strength he conveyed on the silver screen define what it is to be a leading man. Heston has screen presence in biblical proportions, and its appropriate that his prime came about while Hollywood had an obsession with making epics -- the gravitas he embued in his characters made him a perfect fit in Tinsel Town's Golden Era. There has never been anyone else quite like him before or since and there may never be.

Charlton Heston Online Shrine

Fictional Approach: Evgeny Zamyatin
Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin (Евге́ний Ива́нович Замя́тин sometimes translated into English as Eugene Zamyatin) (February 1, 1884 - March 10, 1937) was a Russian author, most famous for his novel We, a story of dystopian future which influenced Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and Ayn Rand's Anthem. more ....
We (Мы, 1920) is a novel by Yevgeny Zamyatin. The title is the Russian third person plural pronoun, transliterated phonetically as "My". It was written in response to the author's personal experiences with the Russian revolutions of 1905 and 1917, as well as his life in the Newcastle suburb of Jesmond, and work in the Tyne shipyards (1916-17), where he observed the rationalisation of labour on a large scale. more....

Zamiatin’s "Letter to Stalin"

In 1931, after a long campaign against him by the Soviet cultural establishment, Zamiatin has decided to make a desperate move and request a foreign passport by turning to Stalin himself (perhaps, encouraged by Maxim Gorky). surprisingly, permission was granted, and Zamiatin soon departed for the West as a Soviet citizen on an extended tour. Although Zamiatin never returned to Russia, his activities in the West suggest that he was careful not to burn his bridges. The letter below paints a vivid picture of the literary politics in Russia at the outset of the Stalin revolution. more...
Novel download

 

Work Sheets
Communication Skills

pdf / htm
annotated extract from Iris pdf / htm
BBC Obituary

Alzheimer's - cloze exercise
Two Case Studies

Alzheimer's disease
 

Stem cells