Every time you run a Google search, you make its brain a little more powerful.
Take a look at your spice cabinet and get your brain a-thinking and your palate a-tasting.
Plus, socializing while playing cards adds a level of unpredictability that gives your brain a charge--something solo games don't offer.
For every 10 men, six will have a male brain, two will have a balanced brain, and two will have a female brain.
The skin not only protects the body, the senses in it also tell the brain a lot about what is going on in the outside world.
To process the MRI data, a computer overlaid on Pickens' brain a virtual three-dimensional grid of 50, 000 cubes called voxels (a word hinting at volume and pixels).
Going in with the fastest time in the world you think you are ahead of the field and everybody but I've got to use my brain a little bit smarter about how I approach this situation.
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Karsch talks about how he was able to solve a left-brain problem with a right brain approach in his previous job as CMO at the Las Vegas Sands.
The researchers noted, however, that "the direction of causation is unclear, " meaning they couldn't tell if a healthier brain was a result of physical activity, or if people showing signs of cognitive decline weren't able to exercise.
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Roughly 25, 000 Americans are stuck in a vegetative state as a result of suffering brain damage from a car accident or other trauma, or after their brain has been deprived of oxygen following a stroke or heart attack.
There was a problem: T67 passed easily into the brain, a fact that was great for treating brain cancer-- but one that also caused the drug to have toxic neurological side effects at high doses.
One of the main ways schizophrenia drugs differ is in how they inhibit a brain receptor for dopamine, a key neurotransmitter that is overactive in some parts of a schizophrenic's brain.
"This could lead to a brain drain and a youth drain, " says deputy general secretary Patrick Itschert.
In particular, Parkinson's is associated with a lack in the brain of a messenger molecule called dopamine.
It will simulate the hidden injuries, ones that involve a torn aorta, a bruised kidney or a brain jostled inside a skull.
You used to have to have a brain to be a cashier.
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Dr Denk (or, rather, his graduate students) are thus able to load the machine with a chunk of plasticised brain and a slicer.
Jurors have failed to reach a verdict on whether a student who suffered a brain injury at a university fees protest was guilty of violent disorder.
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Two of the deaths, a brain trauma and a case of rheumatoid arthritis that worsened after treatment was stopped, are clearly not linked to the drug.
Three days later, Kennedy's doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston said preliminary results from a brain biopsy showed a tumor in the left parietal lobe was responsible for the seizure.
Marco Iacoboni, a lab director at the UCLA Brain Mapping Center, says when people see a smile, so-called mirror neurons fire in their brain and evoke a similar neural response as if they were smiling themselves.
There is, however, a third possibility--generating replacement cells from a patient's own brain in a tissue culture.
David Eagleman talked to the BBC's Tom Bateman about the various theories of what forms consciousness - whether it is a property of the human brain or a "property of the universe".
Even better is that this state of consciousness can be witnessed in EEG recordings of the brain as a heightened, synchronous pattern of brain waves (called gamma synchrony).
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Boyden and Forest, working with Forest's graduate student Suhasa Kodandaramaiah, developed a robotic system to record activity of a single neuron in the living brain using a tiny glass tube.
This follows the same logic as beta blocker use: Alcohol blocks stress pathways in the brain (which is why it relaxes people), so people who were drunk were in a condition in which the terrible event couldn't register fully in the brain in a way that would lead to PTSD.
That began to change in the 1980s when a group of scientists examined the entire brain of a man with autism who had died at age 29.
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