Glossary D
Glossary D
Dopamine hypothesis of Schizophrenia refers to the proposal that Schizophrenia is due to excess activity at certain Dopamine synapses.
Dorothea Lynde Dix (1802 to 1887) refers to an American social reformer who had caused several states (and foreign countries) to reform their facilities for treating mental illness by making them more available to those needing them and more humane in their treatment.
Dorsal column medial lemniscal pathway refers to a pathway that carries information pertaining to touch and vibration. It is so named because it is routed up the dorsal aspects of the spinal cord to a white matter tract termed the medial lemniscus that courses through the contralateral side of the brainstem through the medulla, pons, and midbrain to be routed up through the Thalamus (ventral posterior nucleus ) and on to the primary somatosensory cortex.