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Periphery : How Your Nervous System Predicts and Protects Against Disease / Moses V. Chao.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chao, Moses V., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Disease susceptibility.
- Health risk assessment.
- Nerves, Peripheral.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (193 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [2023]
- Summary:
- Moses Chao argues that activity in the peripheral nervous system predicts the onset of neurological and psychiatric conditions such as Parkinson's disease, autism, and dementia. Responsible for regulating a range of involuntary bodily processes and for detecting smells, sounds, and touch, the peripheral system may also be a key to better health.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. The First System
- Chapter 2. A Gut Reaction
- Chapter 3. Pain Perception
- Chapter 4. A Proneness to Trembling
- Chapter 5. More Than a Glue
- Chapter 6. A Lack of Tears
- Chapter 7. The Power of Touch
- Chapter 8. Plasticity in the Periphery
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Credits
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 0-674-29470-X
- 0-674-29471-8
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