> My name is Joe Hsu and I'm a undergrad student at Stanford Univeristy
> studying Neuroscience (a specialization under Psychology.) I'm
> currently researching about the pausible causes and mechanisms of
> nausea and vomiting. So far I have tried looking through neuroscience
> texts to find any mentioning of nausea and vomiting, but the results
> have not been satisfactory.
>> So a general question to the readers of this newsgroup. Do you know of
> anything about nausea and vomiting? I'm especially interested in the
> neurosciences/ anatomy viewpoint. However, any other information would
Joe, an excellent place to start might be Carrieri-Kohlman et al.,
_Pathophysiological_Phenomena_in_Nursing_ (2nd ed.), Saunders, 1994.
There's a long chapter about mechanisms of nausea.
Jane Harper, MS, RN, CCRN
University of California, San Francisco School of Nursing