Dr. Patricia B Porter PHD
Speech-Language Pathologist
505 OAK TREE DR CHAPEL HILL NC, 27517About
Dr. Patricia Porter is a speech language pathologist practicing in CHAPEL HILL, NC. Dr. Porter specializes in speech, language and swallowing disorders in patients. As a speech language pathologist, Dr. Porter evaluates, diagnoses and treats patients with communication and swallowing troubles. These conditions may be due to developmental delay, brain injury, hearing loss, autism, stroke or other diseases and injuries. Dr. Porter helps patients make sounds and improve their voices through various methods. Speech language pathologists also work with patients to strengthen muscles used to speak and swallow, and work with individuals and families to help cope with their conditions.
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Psychology at the University of Deseret (Utah): a century of progressive struggle.
- Need reduction and primary reinforcement: maze learning by sodium-deprived rats for a subthreshold saline reward.
- Beta brain waves as an index of alertness.
- The effect of amphetamine upon cats with lesions in the ventromedial hypothalamus.
- Self-stimulation of the caudate nucleus by instrumentally naive cats.
- Visual deficit in albino rats following fetal x irradiation.
- ANOTHER HOLDER FOR CHRONICALLY IMPLANTED ELECTRODES.
- ANTICONVULSANT DRUGS AND SELF-STIMULATING BEHAVIOR.
- FEEDING AND METABOLIC DIFFERENCES BETWEEN TRYON BRIGHT AND DULL RATS.
- INTRACRANIAL REINFORCEMENT COMPARED WITH SUGAR-WATER REINFORCEMENT.
- ELECTRICAL INTRACRANIAL STIMULATION AS A PRIMARY REINFORCER FOR CATS.
- OVERNIGHT PERFORMANCE DECREMENT WITH INTRACRANIAL REINFORCEMENT.
- Subcortical conditioning, generalization, and transfer.
- Behavioral assessment of glutamic acid metabolism with observations on pyridoxine and folic acid deficiencies.
- Effects of glutamic acid on maze learning and recovery from electroconvulsive shocks in albino rats.
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