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Source: The Anatomical Record Part B: The New Anatomist - November 16, 2006 Category: Anatomy Authors: Andrea Pendleton Source Type: journals

In memoriam: Mark Alan Nathanson, 1947-2006Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: The Anatomical Record Part B: The New Anatomist - November 16, 2006 Category: Anatomy Authors: Kathy Svoboda Source Type: journals

Should we continue teaching anatomy by dissection when [hellip]?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The central role that human dissection has long held in clinical education is being reevaluated in many institutions. Despite the impression that many institutions are abandoning dissection, very few have and most of those have reinstated dissection within a few years. What are the inherent qualities that lead institutions back to dissection? In our efforts to redesign a shortened dissection course, our consultations with a broad range of clinicians lead us to understand how the rhythms of clinical practice are modeled and developed in the small-group setting of the dissection laboratory. Following further consultation wit...
Source: The Anatomical Record Part B: The New Anatomist - November 16, 2006 Category: Anatomy Authors: Lawrence J. Rizzolo, William B. Stewart Source Type: journals

Reflections on eponyms in neuroscience terminologyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Eponyms have played a very significant linguistic role in technical and scientific terminology. They are an important feature of language that have contributed for a long time to engraving in history the names of those researchers who have devoted their lives to scientific discovery. In the field of medical terminology, they are an asset, although their semantic effectiveness has constituted a long-standing debate. We will analyze how language contributes to the advance of science and technology and the current position of eponyms in the health sciences. Eponymy in neuroscience has been used for a long time as a way to ide...
Source: The Anatomical Record Part B: The New Anatomist - November 16, 2006 Category: Anatomy Authors: Jorge Eduardo Duque-Parra, J. Oskar Llano-Idárraga, Carlos Alberto Duque-Parra Source Type: journals

Race and the odd history of human paleontologyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Although the late 17th century witnessed the recognition of fossils as the remains of extinct organisms - because they could be incorporated into the creation story embodied in the Great Chain of Being - acceptance of human antiquity through the indisputable demonstration of the contemporaneity of human bones, stone tools, and accepted fossils was not forthcoming for nearly 2 centuries thereafter. When it did occur, however, ancient humans were not seen as presenting a pattern of diversity similar to that seen in the fossil records of nonhuman organisms. Instead, human evolution then, as now, has typically been interpreted...
Source: The Anatomical Record Part B: The New Anatomist - November 16, 2006 Category: Anatomy Authors: Jeffrey H. Schwartz Source Type: journals

Anatomy meets architecture: Designing new laboratories for new anatomistsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
General notions of architecture are familiar to anatomists, and they frequently use the word in describing the functional structures of cells, tissues, and whole organisms. Beyond concepts relating to orderly structure, anatomists infrequently encounter the profession of architecture and practicing architects. Significantly, anatomists can work with architects in the design and building of laboratories and classrooms, efforts that can have sustained effects on the practice of anatomy. In this paper, we consider cooperative interactions between anatomists and architects in designing new laboratories that accommodate educati...
Source: The Anatomical Record Part B: The New Anatomist - November 16, 2006 Category: Anatomy Authors: Robert B. Trelease Source Type: journals

Anatomy of learning: Instructional design principles for the anatomical sciencesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Teaching anatomy is becoming increasingly challenging due to the progressive evolution of university teaching missions, student populations, medical and undergraduate curricula, coupled with a paucity of empirically tested evidence-based instructional practices in the anatomical and medical education literature. As a mechanism to confront these pedagogical challenges, recent advances in educational psychology are analyzed for developing a framework to guide educational reform efforts. Extensive research in educational psychology over the last 100 years has resulted in four major theories on human learning that have facilit...
Source: The Anatomical Record Part B: The New Anatomist - November 16, 2006 Category: Anatomy Authors: Mark Terrell Source Type: journals

Anatomy of reflux: A growing health problem affecting structures of the head and neckEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) and laryngopharyngeal reflux (LPR) are sibling diseases that are a modern-day plague. Millions of Americans suffer from their sequelae, ranging from subtle annoyances to life-threatening illnesses such as asthma, sleep apnea, and cancer. Indeed, the recognized prevalence of GERD alone has increased threefold throughout the 1990s. Knowledge of the precise etiologies for GERD and LPR is becoming essential for proper treatment. This review focuses on the anatomical, physiological, neurobiological, and cellular aspects of these diseases. By definition, gastroesophageal reflux (GER) is the...
Source: The Anatomical Record Part B: The New Anatomist - November 16, 2006 Category: Anatomy Authors: Michael J. Lipan, Joy S. Reidenberg, Jeffrey T. Laitman Source Type: journals

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Source: The Anatomical Record Part B: The New Anatomist - November 1, 2006 Category: Anatomy Authors: Mark H. Paalman Source Type: journals

Diffusion of innovations: Anatomical informatics and iPodsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
We report on the results of a small experiment in applied diffusion, the development and Internet-based distribution of learning resources for a popular, widely distributed personal media player. With these wearable microcomputer devices already in use by a variety of students, new opportunities exist for widespread dissemination of anatomical information. The continuing evolution of wearable computing devices underscores the need for maintaining anatomical information transportability via standardized data formats. Anat Rec (Part B: New Anat) 289B:160-168, 2006. © 2006 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
Source: The Anatomical Record Part B: The New Anatomist - September 29, 2006 Category: Anatomy Authors: Robert B. Trelease Source Type: journals

Trends in histology laboratory teaching in United States medical schoolsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Owing to competition for faculty time among the three major missions of today's academic medical centers, as well as the rapid development of computer-based instructional technologies, laboratory instruction in medical schools in the United States has been undergoing dramatic change. In order to determine recent trends in histology laboratory instruction at U.S. medical schools, a detailed Web survey was administered to histology course directors, with about two-thirds of schools responding. The survey was designed to identify trends in the number of hours of histology laboratory instruction that each medical student recei...
Source: The Anatomical Record Part B: The New Anatomist - September 29, 2006 Category: Anatomy Authors: Robert A. Bloodgood, Robert W. Ogilvie Source Type: journals

Design and implementation of a web-based, database-driven histology atlas: Technology at workEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
At Vanderbilt University, the "Human Cell and Tissue Biology" course is a required lecture and laboratory course with 2 full-time instructors and 106 students. To address demands placed on faculty for individual attention, an interactive Web-based histology atlas was developed and implemented in January 2005. This atlas was specifically designed to complement the existing laboratory manual and to transform the manual into an interactive educational tool whereby students could view high-resolution images of histological specimens online. By utilizing a computer scripting language, interactive highlighting of histological st...
Source: The Anatomical Record Part B: The New Anatomist - September 29, 2006 Category: Anatomy Authors: Sanjay G. Patel, Benjamin P. Rosenbaum, Davin W. Chark, H. Wayne Lambert Source Type: journals

Functional morphology of the first cervical vertebra in humans and nonhuman primatesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The cervical vertebral column bears or balances the weight of the head supported by the nuchal muscles that partly originate from the cervical vertebrae. The position of the head relative to the vertebral column, and consequently locomotion and posture behavior, could thus be associated with the form of the cervical vertebrae. In spite of this assumption and some empirical indications along these lines, primate vertebral morphologies have been reported to be very similar and not clearly related to locomotion. We therefore study the relationship between the morphology of the first cervical vertebra, the atlas, and the locom...
Source: The Anatomical Record Part B: The New Anatomist - September 29, 2006 Category: Anatomy Authors: Evelyn Manfreda, Philipp Mitteroecker, Fred L. Bookstein, Katrin Schaefer Source Type: journals

Damage to the human cerebellum from prenatal alcohol exposure: The anatomy of a simple biometrical explanationEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Since 1973, it has become clear that exposure of otherwise normal human fetuses to high levels of alcohol damages a substantial number of the exposed brains in a wide variety of ways nowadays referred to collectively as the fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASDs). Averages of images and measurements of brains with these disorders are quantitatively different from normal, and the cerebellum is one of the structures at which differences are typically noted. The present article extends these techniques to a simple, practical, and enlightening detection rule for fetal alcohol damage in adolescents and adults known to have bee...
Source: The Anatomical Record Part B: The New Anatomist - September 29, 2006 Category: Anatomy Authors: Fred L. Bookstein, Ann P. Streissguth, Paul D. Connor, Paul D. Sampson Source Type: journals

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Source: The Anatomical Record Part B: The New Anatomist - September 1, 2006 Category: Anatomy Authors: Andrea Pendleton Source Type: journals