Azerbaijan-born American Allen Oldfather died 60 years ago. He's well known for the pancreatic cancer operation as well as the triad which bear his name.

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Dr. Norman M. Dott was a pioneer of in the UK.
In 1931 he treated an on the proximal part of a middle cerebral in a patient by wrapping the lesion with a muscle.

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The diagram of the trigeminothalamic system.

Source: Peer Assessment of the Medical Neuroscience course

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Diabetic retinopathy occurs when high levels of blood sugar lead to damage of the blood vessels within the retina, the light-sensitive tissue at the back of the eye.

Source: Choate Eye Associates

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Neural model of resilience to trauma—pre-trauma factors, peri-trauma predictors of resilience, and recovery factors.

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The core brain system that mediates past and future thinking.

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Threat regulatory neurocircuitry across species.

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Achilles tendinopathy is an injury to the band of tissue (tendon) that connects the muscles in your lower leg to your heel bone.

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Just realised that while I've drawn a fair few ancient dogs, it's not nearly enough!!!🐺🐕💗

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Pain, visceroceptive and spinothalamocortical pathways.

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The sensory homunculus is a map along the cerebral cortex of where each part of the body is processed.

Source: Neurociencias de Cajal

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A cross-section showing the anatomy of the human brain.

Source: Sobotta's Human Anatomy

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Two main types of stroke and their causes.

Credits: Mahdad Jafarzade Esfahani/University of Twente

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Representation of limbic circuitry, with tentative localization of functions involved in drug addiction.

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The thalamocortical machinery for the generation of oscillatory rhythms of NREM sleep and associated plasticity processes.

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Functional areas of the cerebral cortex.

Credits: Kayt Sukel

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