Abstract：
:The rise of anatomical realism in sculpture with the Classical Greeks puzzles art historians. Recently, it has been discovered that the motor cortex perceives motor actions. I argue that Classical artists discovered a new aesthetic based on using art to stimulate not just, as previously, the visual cortex, but also the motor one.
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Med Hypothesesjournal_title
Medical hypothesesauthors
Skoyles JRdoi
10.1016/s0306-9877(98)90257-2subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1998-07-01 00:00:00pages
69-70issue
1eissn
0306-9877issn
1532-2777pii
S0306-9877(98)90257-2journal_volume
51pub_type
历史文章,杂志文章abstract：:Recent studies have shown that increased hepatic gluconeogenesis is the predominant contributor to fasting hyperglycemia - the hallmark of type 2 diabetes. Although it has been known for a long time that over-supply of fat is able to stimulate gluconeogenesis both in-vitro and in-vivo, neither the leading substrate no...
journal_title：Medical hypotheses
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1054/mehy.1999.0943
更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Medical hypotheses
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.mehy.2006.06.062
更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Medical hypotheses
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.mehy.2018.10.014
更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Medical hypotheses
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.mehy.2019.109264
更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Medical hypotheses
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.mehy.2006.07.056
更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The accepted paradigms of mainstream neuropsychiatry appear to be incompletely adequate and in various cases offer equivocal analyses. However, a growing number of new approaches are being proposed that suggest the emergence of paradigm shifts in this area. In particular, quantum theories of mind, brain and consciousn...
journal_title：Medical hypotheses
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.mehy.2017.02.013
更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Medical hypotheses
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.mehy.2019.01.016
更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Medical hypotheses
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1054/mehy.2000.1103
更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00
abstract：:For many years, the ketogenic diet, including recent variants such the medium-chain triglyceride (MCT) diet, has been used with good clinical results in the management of refractory epilepsies, particularly in children. The antiepileptic effects of the diet, like the antiepileptic effects of starvation, have been attr...
journal_title：Medical hypotheses
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.mehy.2007.05.054
更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Medical hypotheses
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0306-9877(80)90102-4
更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Medical hypotheses
pub_type： 历史文章,杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.mehy.2011.10.005
更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Medical hypotheses
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0306-9877(03)00103-8
更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) is a novel technique of non-invasive brain stimulation which has been used to treat several neuropsychiatric disorders such as major depressive disorder, chronic pain and epilepsy. Recent studies have shown that the therapeutic effects of rTMS are associated with pla...
journal_title：Medical hypotheses
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.mehy.2008.02.011
更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Medical hypotheses
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1054/mehy.1997.0008
更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Deciding for an amputation in case of complex regional pain syndrome type I (CRPS-I) is controversial. Evidence for favorable or adverse effects of an amputation is weak. We therefore follow a careful and well-structured decision making process. After referral of the patient with the request to amputate the affected l...
journal_title：Medical hypotheses
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.mehy.2018.08.026
更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Medical hypotheses
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.mehy.2012.04.019
更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Medical hypotheses
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1054/mehy.1999.0797
更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Medical hypotheses
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.mehy.2020.109724
更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Medical hypotheses
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.mehy.2020.110043
更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Medical hypotheses
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.mehy.2020.110038
更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Medical hypotheses
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0306-9877(97)90081-5
更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Medical hypotheses
pub_type： 历史文章,杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0306-9877(92)90079-r
更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Medical hypotheses
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.mehy.2017.11.009
更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Medical hypotheses
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.mehy.2007.07.050
更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Medical hypotheses
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0306-9877(79)90041-0
更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Medical hypotheses
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.mehy.2018.01.014
更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：:A model of human language requires a theory of meaningful marks. Humans are the only species who use marks to think. A theory of marks identifies children's scribbles as significant behavior, while hypothesizing the importance of rotational systems to hominid brain evolution. By recognizing the importance of children'...
journal_title：Medical hypotheses
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.mehy.2004.09.002
更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:We describe a six-month-old girl with microcephaly, developmental delay, truncal hypotonia, left pyramidal signs, partial seizures and myoclonic spasms, born to a feverish mother. MRI showed bilateral vascular lesions in the territory of the middle cerebral arteries, prevalent in the right hemisphere, together with hy...
journal_title：Medical hypotheses
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.mehy.2011.04.023
更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Medical hypotheses
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.mehy.2017.10.015
更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Several disorders or abnormalities observed in medicine and psychology are not explicable (or not fully explicable) by genetics and environmental influences, either alone or together. These include phobias and philias observed in early infancy, unusual play in childhood, homosexuality, gender identity disorder, a chil...
journal_title：Medical hypotheses
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1054/mehy.1999.0920
更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00
