Jackson started this lab in 1998 to look at methods of brain control that didn't involve surgery.
Samuels, director of neuroscience critical care at Emory University in Atlanta, said portions of the left brain control speech and understanding language.
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"We could look at identical sections in the autistic brain and in the control brain, and we could look at them side by side, " Bauman says.
Nicolelis and colleagues have shown that a rhesus monkey in North Carolina could, using only its brain, control the walking patterns of a robot in Japan.
Valerenic acid, an ingredient of the root, acts on chemical pathways in the brain that control a person's level of anxiety or relaxation, according to scientific literature.
Unlike Xenical, previous diet drugs, such as Redux and Phenfluramine, best known as the "phen" in Fen-Phen, worked on the brain to control the body's feeling of "fullness".
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The urge to drink or take drugs is, neurochemically speaking, linked to endorphins (natural morphine-like molecules) or dopamine, a neurotransmitter that is involved in bits of the brain that control reward behaviour.
At the same time, over-sensitivity sets in because the brain's control mechanisms are weak.
Both drugs helped patients lose weight by elevating brain chemicals that control appetite.
Bundles of nerve fibers connecting our "thinking" brain with ancient regions that control our primeval "feeling" brain make up two sides of our emotional mind.
"Since Neanderthals evolved at higher latitudes, more of the Neanderthal brain would have been dedicated to vision and body control, leaving less brain to deal with other functions like social networking, " she told BBC News.
As it would turn out, those two brain regions happen to control how we perceive risk.
Many investors saw Arena's pill, which affects a part of the brain involved in appetite control, as safer than rival drugs.
Lorcaserin works by stimulating a serotonin receptor in the hypothalamus, a part of the brain linked to the control of satiety and metabolism.
"The connections between the brain's executive control centers and emotional centers are weak in people with severe anger problems, " explains Gonzalez-Heydrich, chief of Psychopharmacology at Boston Children's and senior investigator on the study.
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"This was not, we think, a psychiatric problem or a characterological defect because there is substantial evidence that during this same time, there was a tumor growing in her brain, in the centers of the brain that affect and control, logic, reasoning and, most importantly, judgment, " attorney Eugene Iredale said at a news conference Thursday.
He said the brain areas involved, which control decision making such as how to consciously move the body, might be important.
Patients then perform various tasks that trick the brain into thinking it can control the missing limb, something earlier studies suggested would help alleviate the often unbearable pain.
Their theory is that this variety of receptor might help, in normal circumstances, to keep control over the brain's response to huge hormonal changes during and immediately after pregnancy.
Dr Roi Cohen Kadosh, study author from the department of experimental psychology at the University of Oxford, said the noise stimulation group showed improvements in cognitive and brain functions compared with the control group.
That might sound drastic, but in 5-year-olds, whose brains are still actively growing, the remaining part of the brain can reorganize itself to control some functions that the missing half would have governed, although the child will probably not be completely neurologically normal, Gupta said.
Extraordinarily for a man who seems barely in control of his own brain and limbs, Nel is a qualified accountant.
Perhaps for similar reasons, the control system of the brain, which includes areas like the left lateral prefrontal cortex, gets particularly good press.
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Conducted under the auspices of the World Health Organization, it interviewed more than 5, 000 people afflicted with glioma or meningioma brain tumors, along with a control group, from 13 countries.
"The brain is organised into multiple levels of control including the spinal cord at the low level to the neocortex at the high level, " he said.
It sounds unbelievable, but the technology actually relies on understood phenomena, exploiting the electrical signals produced by the brain as well as eye movement to control electronic devices.
Such second-hand signals are not as precise as ones collected directly from the brain itself, and probably could not control the complex movements required of an arm and a hand.
The brain cells have been taught how to control the robot's movements so it can steer round obstacles and the next step, say its creators, is to get it to recognise its surroundings.
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