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  • Autonomic Nervous System

    Basic and Clinical Aspects

    Series series Medicine (R0)
    A traditional view of the Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) considers only its peripheral part: the sympathetic and parasympathetic systems. However, this view misses to consider the most important ANS function: the maintenance of homeostasis. This term is used today to define not only the strategies that allow the body proper response to changes in the environment (reactive homeostasis), but also ... Read more

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  • Ma Vie en Noir

    Fifty Years with Melatonin and the Stone of Madness

    Series series Medicine (R0)
    I wrote this book urged by the overwhelming desire that arises towards the end of life to recapitulate the past. My goal was to summarize my experience of practicing science at the end of the 20th and early 21st centuries in Argentina, a country located far away from the world’s leading scientific centers. In the book, I summarize the intricacies of the pineal gland (“the stone of madness”) as ... Read more

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  • Cultural and Environmental Change on Rapa Nui

    Series series Routledge Studies in Archaeology
    Rapa Nui, one of the world’s most isolated island societies and home to the notable moai, has been at the centre of a tense debate for the past decade. Some see it as the site of a dramatic cultural collapse occurring before Western contact, where a self-inflicted ecocide was brought on by the exhaustion of resources. Others argue that the introduction of Western pathogens and the slave raids of ... Read more

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  • The Statues that Walked

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    A Natural History

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