Title of Dissertation: Sleep alterations in a progressive, environmental neurotoxininduced model of parkinsonism Kimberly A. McDowell, Doctor of Philosophy, 2011 Dissertation Directed by: Dr. Paul J. Yarowsky, Associate Professor Department of Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics Parkinson‘s disease (PD) is classically defined as a motor disorder resulting from decreased dopamine production...

A computational theory of selection by consequences [McDowell, J.J, 2004. A computational model of selection by consequences. J. Exp. Anal. Behav. 81, 297-317] was tested by studying the responding of virtual organisms that were animated by the theory on random interval schedules of reinforcement. The theory generated responding by applying principles of selection, reproduction, and mutation to...

From the Departments of Neurology and Pathology, Cornell University Medical College, New York, N. 1. Supported in part by Research Grants HE-04872 and NB-03346, NB-04161 from USPHS and from the Winthrop Laboratories. Dr. Kutt is a recipient of a Research Career Development Award JKO 3 NB 35003, NINDB, USPH. First submitted October 2, 1968; accepted for publication December 13, 1968. KARL VEREBE...

Pituitary adenomas (PA) constitute about 10% of intracranial neoplasm. Most of them have its origin in adenohypophysis (Cury et al., 2009; Rosai, 1989). They occur most often in adults between the ages of 30 and 60 years, and may have slightly higher incidence in females in early life (20-45 years) and in males in later life (35-60 years) (Davis et al., 2001; McDowell et al., 2011). The majorit...

Sagar N. Doshi, Ian F.W. McDowell, Stuart J. Moat, Nicola Payne, Hilary J. Durrant, Malcolm Largely Independent of Homocysteine Lowering Folic Acid Improves Endothelial Function in Coronary Artery Disease via Mechanisms Print ISSN: 0009-7322. Online ISSN: 1524-4539 Copyright © 2002 American Heart Association, Inc. All rights reserved. is published by the American Heart Association, 7272 Greenvi...

This paper is a defense of Reformed Empiricism, especially against those critics who take Reformed Empiricism to be a viable account of empirical rationality only if it avails itself of certain rationalist assumptions that are inconsistent with empiricism. I argue against three broad types of criticism that are found in the current literature, and propose a way of characterising Gupta’s constra...