Vold og politikk i Iran

Glutamat og GABA: Hovedaktører i nevronal metabolisme

Cultures of dissociated cerebella from 7-day-old mice were maintained in vitro for 1–13 days. GABA biosynthesis and degradation were studiedduring development in culture and pharmacological agents were used to identify the enzymes involved. The amount of GABA increased, whereasthat of glutamate was unchanged during the first 5 days and both decreased thereafter. The presence of aminooxy...

Norway , Mental Health and WHO Gunnar Vold

Optimal Policy in OG Models

In the present paper general stationary overlapping generations economies with many commodities in every period and many different consumers in every generation are considered. A government maximizes a utilitarian social welfare function, which is the sum of weighted averages of utilities for generations, through fiscal policy, i.e., monetary transfers and taxes. Situations both with and withou...

Placebo. Historie, biologi og effekt

Since 1950 or so, placebos and their effect have generated a considerable interest in certain medical communities, in particular among psychiatrists and the designers of clinical trials, yet the only significant external study of this phenomenon to appear has been Howard Brody's doctoral investigation, Placebos and the philosophy ofmedicine, published in 1980. In 1997, however, three book-lengt...

Og y OF C Og NI TI ON 156 Reflections on My Collaboration with Francisco

> Context • Francisco Varela and Humberto Maturana worked closely together for several short episodes and wrote joint publications during the 1970s and 1980s. After that their respective paths in life diverged. > Problem • What is the common ground and what are the differences between these two authors with respect to their lives and aims? > Method • The author reconstructs their common history...