FNR 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Lycopene, Paradigm Shift, Cognitive Test

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Nutrition and Food
• Course: FNR 100
• Professor: Dan Mahoney

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The donation and arrival of the brains of the nuns to markesburys lab marks an important methodological shift in the nun study. A shift from the ethnographic to the science pathology and actual physical evidence attributed to alzheimers disease. At first snowdon wanted to find out about the nuns and get to know them. Now, hes actually perfoming experiments on their brain and analyzing their brain. He shifted from ethnographic to the science of pathology. The science of the causes and effects of diseases. In the cause of the nun study, making some connection between the physiological alterations in the brain to the behavioural and cognitive changes in the nuns. Illumination connection and relationship (cid:862)illu(cid:373)i(cid:374)ati(cid:374)g the (cid:396)elationship between the symptoms of the disease the progressive, devastating loss of function and the damage to the brain that (cid:272)auses those s(cid:455)(cid:373)pto(cid:373)s (cid:863)