It's like the brain's chief executive officer, responsible for long-term planning, focusing, monitoring and distraction-squelching (and apparently PR too).
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Melon's an EEG headband that taps into your brain's inner workings to show you how well you maintain mental focus.
Research suggests some connection between low numbers of synapses in a person's brain and Alzheimer's symptoms such as memory impairment and language deterioration.
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But the team of medical researchers from Israeli and U.S. institutions used recently developed methods to assess his brain's responsiveness at Soroka University Medical Center in Beersheba.
It's great, as far as I'm concerned my brain's in outer space anyway.
It's wired to remember negative moments most keenly, which is your brain's way of teaching you not to do something potentially harmful again.
Pfizer's goal was to turn cytisine into a compound that would outsmart the brain's nicotine receptors.
They combined conventional PET imaging, which requires a radioactive tracer to highlight the brain's metabolic activity, with other recent advances in the genetic engineering of brain cells that allows them to target specific brain circuits in lab animals.
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The brain's normal pain-sensory system, in which nerve endings send messages to the brain about a threat, goes awry in migraines.
Researchers at Stanford University and MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory had activated light-sensitive neurons in the brain's hippocampus involved in the memory of fright.
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Ms. Giffords's immediate responsiveness to commands, such as squeezing a doctor's hand, suggests that she wasn't in a coma and that her brain stem and the brain's core structures had relatively little damage.
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All of the companies vying to emerge in the brain-wave market are using electroencephalograph, or EEG, technology, which measures the brain's electrical impulses in the forehead and has long been used to diagnose epilepsy and other brain disorders.
So the idea behind beta blockers for preventing PTSD is that if you can prevent the body's stress system from reacting strongly to a trauma, you might be able to reduce the brain's fear and horror response.
Dr Studdert-Kennedy maintains that speech moves in a fluid stream of sound that has little resemblance to the discrete tones used in Dr Merzenich's hearing tests, and that dyslexia probably stems from a high-level problem in the brain's language system that is simply not yet understood.
Herberman demonstrated a model showing that the radiation from cell phones would penetrate far deeper into a 5-year-old's brain than an adult's.
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Prof Bullmore expects to see changes in the brain's wiring that gradually bring impulsive behaviour under control.
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Serotonin is one of the brain's messenger molecules, and is particularly involved in establishing mood.
Now, it appears more likely that migraines "hijack" the brain's normal pain circuitry, says Dr. Dodick.
Physical touch of any kind drives up the brain's oxytocin levels, for both men and women.
In the new technique, the brain's three-dimensional circuits and their molecular structure stay intact.
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The conductor in our heads lives in the brain's frontal lobes, basically above our eyes.
At the same time, over-sensitivity sets in because the brain's control mechanisms are weak.
Dopamine cells, for example, are involved in the brain's reward systems, generating feelings of pleasure.
So far, it has been adopted by 4, 000 scientists to probe the brain's biology.
However, other researchers questioned how pollution could alter the brain's development and lead to autism.
Previous studies of novelty-seeking behaviour suggest that it is managed by the brain's right frontal lobe.
The researchers used brain scans to trace the brain's pain responses in 29 volunteers.
Naltrexone impacts the brain's opioid receptors, which are involved in feelings of pleasure and reward.
When they twitch useful information about the brain's intentions can be extracted from them.
The disease hinders development of the myelin sheath, a fatty covering that protects the brain's nerve fibers.
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