Publications by authors named "Pil B"

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  • Humans and animals use active touch to identify objects, which involves coordinating movement and sensory feedback based on their goals.
  • * Researchers created a task for mice to distinguish between concave and convex shapes, finding that behavior varied based on whether the task was shape discrimination or detection.
  • * Recordings from the barrel cortex revealed that neurons encoded information differently depending on the task, emphasizing the importance of relevant whiskers during shape discrimination, suggesting sensory processing is tailored to specific behavioral needs.
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The article presents the data on 57 schizophrenic and 26 neurotic patients investigated by computerized tomography (CT). Only 4 of the neurosis patients (15.4%) displayed minor CT changes.

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The study is based on a clinical and X-ray examination of 481 patients where in 270 cases different forms of neuroses were found and in 211--neurotic-like conditions of an organic character (arachno-encephalitis, cerebral arachnoiditis, diencephalitis). Craniograms depicted changes only in 18% of the patients with neuroses while in organic brain lesions in 52% of the cases. In the group of patients with neuroses there were no convincing changes in the pneumoencephalograms.

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