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 Glossary - K  

This glossary comes from False Messengers: How Addictive Drugs Change the Brain, by David Friedman, PhD, and Sue Rusche, Harwood Academic Publishers, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1999.

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Kinesthetic information Information from our muscles and joints that tells us where our body is in space and how its various parts are oriented in relation to each other. Kinesthetic information is crucial for making accurate movements.

 

Korsakoff's syndrome See Wernike-Korsakoff's syndrome.



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