Brain plasticity, the field that Merzenich helped pioneer, is now one of the hottest areas in medicine, one with hugely positive implications for an aging society.
The technology allows researchers to measure magnetic-field changes around the brain while a baby sits under what looks like a beauty-salon hair dryer.
"There was not anything more extraordinarily complex about these issues, as to the extent of injuries, than in many other brain damage baby cases, a field of specialization that this attorney is particularly expert at, " Judge Schlesinger wrote.
But this concept has been lower to take hold in brain imaging, and the associated emerging field of neuroinformatics.
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The Swedish study builds off the established idea in the field that stress actually harms the brain.
Enter a nascent but fast-growing field called neuromarketing, which uses brain-tracking tools to determine why we prefer some products over others.
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To Coach Shanahan, hopefully you can also recover from the brain cramp which America witnessed on Sunday at FedEx Field.
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Dr. Wendy Wright, a neurologist who has not been involved in my care, said the medical field is still evolving in treating mild traumatic brain injuries such as concussions.
Two of our young experts have played a role in the hot field of using high tech methods to understand the brain.
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In addition, brain conferences will be held every year to discuss advancements in the field.
It is not just the brain that may be damaged after a long career on the playing field.
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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Jones said he hopes that research will help bring more understanding of the brain disease so future football players are informed when they decide to take the field.
Not all of us will grow up to be brain surgeons, but if you'd like a peek into the frontiers of the field, just hop the break.
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In a study on confidence and accuracy, Lewis Goldberg asked experienced neurologists and their administrative assistants to diagnose brain damage among patients as being organic or non-organic damage using a standard protocol in the field.
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Likening plaque deposits to "tombstones, " she says the field historically has been too focused on autopsy findings like plaques rather than on whatever is killing brain cells while people are still alive.
In my book, I argue that we should instead grasp the neuroethical nettles that threaten to choke the growth of the new field neurocriminology, recognize that there is more to crime than bad environments, and attack the brain basis to violence.
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