Word: pathways
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...there, it is relayed in a bewildering flurry of chemical messages to the brain, first to the thalamus, where sensations like heat, cold, pain and touch first become conscious. Then on to the cerebral cortex, where the intensity and location of pain are recognized. This final stretch of the pathway is the great terra incognita in pain research. Says Fields...
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...report praised an alternative program the Medical School has been developing, designed to alleviate pressure on pre-meds and to integrate humanities and basic sciences. The "New Pathway," which will accept 25 students on an experimental basis in the fall of 1985, is a five-year program, extending into the first year of residency. Modeled on the progressive system at the McMaster University Medical School in Toronto, the program will be case-based, emphasizing the study of specific incidents rather than broad-based disease analysis, with lectures limited...
...faith-an offshoot of Shi'ism, which is itself a minority branch of Islam-asserts that two prophets came after Muhammad. To Muslims this constitutes a new, perverted faith. The first prophet was Mirza 'Ali Muhammad, who declared in 1844 that he was the Bab (gate), the pathway to God. He was executed in 1850 as a heretic. When Persian authorities tried to wipe out his disciples, the Babis fought back; as many as 20,000 were slain...
...called "New Pathway" is a five-year program extending through medical school and into the first year of residency. Applications are due October 15 for the class entering in the fall...