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Kaufman, Christopher – Brookes Publishing Company, 2010
Students with strong executive function skills hold the keys to school and social success--from attention and impulse control to time management and organization. Now K-12 teachers have a practical, highly readable guide to enhancing these critical skills for "all" students, with and without learning disabilities. Through the author's memorable…
Descriptors: Learning Problems, Socialization, Self Control, Learning Disabilities
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Kaplan, Carey; Kuntz, Susan – Feminist Teacher: A Journal of the Practices, Theories, and Scholarship of Feminist Teaching, 2008
Getting old is scary; getting old in the classroom is also scary. In this article, the authors, both beginning their seventh decade and have been connected to St. Michael's College for more than thirty years, inscribe themselves and others like them within a narrative of aging and pedagogy that mitigates the terror by contesting and refuting…
Descriptors: Stereotypes, Aging (Individuals), Women Faculty, Older Adults
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Butler, Christopher S. – Language Sciences, 2008
This paper discusses the role played by cognition in three linguistic theories which may be labelled as "structural-functional": Functional (Discourse) Grammar, Role and Reference Grammar and Systemic Functional Grammar. It argues that if we are to achieve true cognitive adequacy, we must go well beyond the grammar itself to include the processes…
Descriptors: Psycholinguistics, Neurolinguistics, Neurology, Cognitive Psychology
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Connell, J. Diane – Educational Horizons, 2009
Brain-Based Learning (BBL) can be viewed as techniques gleaned from research in neurology and cognitive science used to enhance teacher instruction. These strategies can also be used to enhance students' ability to learn using ways in which they feel most comfortable, neurologically speaking. Jensen (1995/2000) defines BBL as "learning in…
Descriptors: Multiple Intelligences, Brain, Educational Strategies, Learning Strategies
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Greene, John Richard T. – Anatomical Sciences Education, 2009
This article discusses factors in the design, commissioning, project management, and intellectual property protection of developments within a new clinical anatomy facility in the United Kingdom. The project was aimed at creating cost-effective facilities that would address widespread concerns over anatomy teaching, and support other activities…
Descriptors: Workstations, Pathology, Neurology, Physiology
Henderson, Nancy – Exceptional Parent, 2008
In this article, the author profiles Dr. Jack Kessler, chair of the Department of Neurology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Dr. Jack Kessler is a renowned stem cell expert and researcher. For years, Dr. Kessler had been researching ways to repair damage to the nervous system. It was not until his own daughter became…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Role Models, Daughters, Medical Schools
Abrahamson, Stephen; Barrows, Howard S. – 1969
This report describes a curriculum development project aimed at improving the teaching of neurology to undergraduate medical students; and providing more effective instruction in neurology for the practicing physician. The project involved: (1) development of a balanced presentation of neurological teaching from undergraduate medical education…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Higher Education, Instructional Innovation, Medical Schools
American Neurological Association, Miami, FL. – 1977
The three-year neurology manpower study reported here was directed toward (1) identifying the presently available neurological manpower and the demographic and professional characteristics of neurologists and neurologists-in-training in the United States as of 1971; (2) determining the current and emerging patterns for utilizing neurological…
Descriptors: Health Needs, Health Occupations, Health Personnel, Labor Needs
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Filipek, Pauline A.; Accardo, Pasquale J.; Baranek, Grace T.; Cook, Edwin H., Jr.; Dawson, Geraldine; Gordon, Barry; Gravel, Judith S.; Johnson, Chris P.; Kallen, Ronald J.; Levy, Susan E.; Minshew, Nancy J.; Prizant, Barry M.; Rapin, Isabelle; Rogers, Sally J.; Stone, Wendy L.; Teplin, Stuart; Tuchman, Roberto F.; Volkmar, Fred R. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 1999
This paper presents detailed recommendations for diagnosis of autism established by a multidisciplinary panel of the Child Neurology Society and the American Academy of Neurology. The paper offers dual-level (general development and specific symptoms) guidelines for diagnosis of autistic disorder, Asperger disorder, childhood disintegrative…
Descriptors: Autism, Clinical Diagnosis, Disability Identification, Early Identification
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Juul, Dorthea; Winstead, Daniel K.; Sheiber, Stephen C. – Academic Psychiatry, 2005
OBJECTIVE: To report the assessment of psychopharmacology on the certification and recertification exams in general psychiatry and in the subspecialties administered by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN). METHODS: The ABPN's core competencies for psychiatrists were reviewed. The number of items addressing psychopharmacology or…
Descriptors: Psychiatry, Pharmacology, Neurology, Certification
Roberts, David; Strickland, James – 1982
The 24 entries in this annotated bibliography are designed to introduce teachers and researchers to the major studies in the field of neurology as it relates to the composing process. Entries in the first section are of works that explain the complex processes and physiology of the brain, while those in the second section are of works attempting…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Cognitive Processes, Language Research, Neurolinguistics
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Kaufman, David M.; Kaufman, Rita G. – Journal of Medical Education, 1983
Videotape instruction produced better performance in identification in only certain areas in a neurology clerkship: neuropsychologic phenomena, disorders with subtle or unique movements, and seizures. The choice and cost of equipment and some professional assurances are discussed. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: Clinical Experience, College Instruction, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Media
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Derouesne, C.; Salamon, R. – Medical Education, 1977
Ways in which teaching neurology can be simplified for the nonspecialist practitioner are addressed in this assessment of the state-of-the-art in France. The hypothesis implies simplifying both the diagnoses and symptomatology. (LBH)
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Educational Assessment, Family Practice (Medicine), Higher Education
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Wilson, Frank R. – Music Educators Journal, 1991
Explores how the body's biological clock affects the way musicians practice and perform. Delineates questions concerning this phenomenon. Discusses the implications for music teaching and focuses on areas for collaborative research between neurology researchers and music educators. (NL)
Descriptors: Conceptual Tempo, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Human Body
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Leung, Danny C. K. – Annals of Science, 2008
This paper reconceptualizes Thomas Clifford Allbutt's contributions to the making of scientific medicine in late nineteenth-century England. Existing literature on Allbutt usually describes his achievements, such as his design of the pocket thermometer and his advocacy of the use of the ophthalmoscope in general medicine, as independent events;…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Pathology, Foreign Countries, Scientists
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