Motion Pictures as Topic
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

[Taxi driver--film portrait of the insomniac]

8 Sep 2009 Martin Scorsese's film "Taxi Driver" from 1976 is a cinematic masterpiece. The main character cannot sleep. His condition is caused by inner restlessness and external commotion. The film shows us New York City's brutal nightlife through the ... Read more...

Patients as teachers, medical students as filmmakers: the video slam, a pilot study.

30 Aug 2009 In 2006-2007 and 2007-2008, the authors pilot-tested a filmmaking project, (medical students filmed patients) to assess the project's potential to teach about the challenges of living with serious chronic illness. Two years of second-year medical ... Read more...

Effects of emotionally contagious films on changes in hemisphere-specific cognitive performance.

30 Jul 2009 In the framework of models on the lateralized involvement of the cortical hemispheres in affect and psychopathology, the authors examined whether cognitive processes associated with the left and the right prefrontal cortex varied as a function of ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Motion Pictures as Topic'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Rosenow's rabbits and postencephalitic parkinsonism. 11 Oct 2009
• Knighting immunology. 29 Sep 2009
• [Medical art column. Dream-like metamorphosis] 21 Sep 2009
• [Taxi driver--film portrait of the insomniac] 8 Sep 2009
• Patients as teachers, medical students as filmmakers: the video slam, a pilot study. 30 Aug 2009
• Temporal transformations in cinema and psychoanalysis: on Philip Groenig's Into Great Silence. 30 Jul 2009
• Why do we watch it? 30 Jul 2009
• Effects of emotionally contagious films on changes in hemisphere-specific cognitive performance. 30 Jul 2009
• High-speed cinematographic evaluation of claw-ground contact pattern of lactating cows. 30 Jul 2009
• A hybrid random field model for scalable statistical learning. 29 Jun 2009
• Core temperature responses and match running performance during intermittent-sprint exercise competition in warm conditions. 29 Jun 2009
• Doctors in the movies: a user's guide to teaching about film and medicine. 29 Jun 2009
• Watching and drinking: expectancies, prototypes, and friends' alcohol use mediate the effect of exposure to alcohol use in movies on adolescent drinking. 29 Jun 2009
• Counsellors are human. 29 Jun 2009
• Movie character smoking and adolescent smoking: who matters more, good guys or bad guys? 29 Jun 2009
• Disability care brought to life. 29 Jun 2009
• The effect of prevention messages and self-efficacy skill building with inner-city women at risk for HIV infection. 29 Jun 2009
• Sexual health of adults working in pornographic films. 29 Jun 2009
• Dermatology at the movies. 29 Jun 2009
• Partners in thought: a clinical process theory of narrative. 29 Jun 2009

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Technical information about 'Motion Pictures as Topic'

Definition: The art, technique, or business of producing motion pictures for entertainment, propaganda, or instruction.

Descriptor UI: D009040

Alternative terms: Motion Pictures as Topic; Motion Pictures; Motion Picture; Picture, Motion; Pictures, Motion; Films as Topics; Films as Topic; Films; Film;

Related Mesh Headings: Cineangiography; Cineradiography;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; standards; supply & distribution; trends; utilization; statistics & numerical data; ethics; instrumentation;

Tree Number: J01.897.280.500.598; L01.178.590.500; L01.178.820.090.598;

History Note: 2008(1963)

Technical Notes: IM; docudrama if a motion picture goes here; do not confuse with Publication Type DOCUMENTARIES AND FACTUAL FILMS