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- American College of Physicians [r]: American organization of doctors of internal medicine (internists), and physicians. [e]
- Arrhythmia [r]: Any variation from the normal rhythm or rate of the heart beat. [e]
- Brain evolution [r]: The process by which the central nervous system changed over many generations. [e]
- Brain [r]: The core unit of a central nervous system. [e]
- Christianity [r]: The largest world religion which centers around the worship of one God, his son Jesus Christ, and his Holy Spirit. [e]
- Clinical practice guideline [r]: Document with the aim of guiding decisions and criteria regarding diagnosis, management, and treatment in specific areas of healthcare. [e]
- Clinical prediction rule [r]: Study in which researchers try to identify the best combination of medical sign, symptoms, and other findings in predicting the probability of a specific disease or outcome. [e]
- Cogito ergo sum [r]: René Descartes' most famous catchphrase: "I think, therefore I am". [e]
- Coma [r]: A profound state of unconsciousness associated with depressed cerebral activity from which the individual cannot be aroused (National Library of Medicine). [e]
- Death [r]: State of thermodynamic equilibrium achieved after the end of life. [e]
- Digital object identifier [r]: Unique label for a computer readable object that can be found on the internet, usually used in academic journals. [e]
- Dissociative disorder [r]: A class of diagnoses that involve a disruption of memory, awareness, identity and/or perception. [e]
- Dizziness [r]: A sense of spatial disorientation, motion of the environment, or lightheadedness. [e]
- Human [r]: Bipedal mammalian species native to most continents and sharing a common ape ancestor with chimpanzees, gorillas and orang-utans; notable for evolving language and adapting its habitat to its own needs. [e]
- Journal of Scientific Exploration [r]: Semiannual journal of the Society for Scientific Exploration, devoted to advancing the study of anomalous phenomena, first published in 1987. [e]
- Life extension [r]: Medical and non-medical attempts to slow down or reverse the processes of aging, to extend both the maximum and average lifespan. [e]
- Neocortex [r]: The six-layered outer layer of the mammalian brain. [e]
- Neurobehavioral manifestation [r]: Signs and symptoms of higher cortical dysfunction caused by organic conditions. These include certain behavioral alterations and impairments of skills involved in the acquisition, processing, and utilization of knowledge or information (National Library of Medicine). [e]
- Orch-OR [r]: A theory of consciousness, put forth in the mid-1990s by British theoretical physicist Sir Roger Penrose and American anesthesiologist Stuart Hameroff, postulating a specific form of quantum computation underlying neuronal synaptic activities occuring in cytoskeletal structures of neurons called microtubules. [e]
- Paranoid personality disorder [r]: a Behavioral disorder characterized by an exaggerated sensitivity to rejection, resentfulness, distrust, and an inclination to distort experiences and events [e]
- Parasympathetic nervous system [r]: Motor division of the autonomic nervous system, which has cholinergic nerve endings, which inhibits the heart, contracts the pupils, and produces a vagus-insulin axis of activity. [e]
- René Descartes [r]: French 17th-century philosopher, mathematician and scientist, author of the Discourse on Method. [e]
- Sri Aurobindo [r]: (1872–1950) Influential Indian philosopher, yogin and nationalist, developer of Integral consciousness theory and the Integral movement. [e]
- Syncope [r]: Transient loss of consciousness and postural tone caused by diminished blood flow to the brain (i.e., brain ischemia) (National Library of Medicine). [e]
- Transient neurological attack [r]: Multiple, acute disturbances involving changes to visual perception, lack of muscle strength, and amnesia. [e]
- Unconsciousness [r]: Loss of the ability to maintain awareness of self and environment combined with markedly reduced responsiveness to environmental stimuli (National Library of Medicine). [e]
