The group's latest effort is the Brain Education School Project, which has kids using physical and cognitive exercises to supposedly improve their attention and confidence.
Research, such as a study done by Boston University School of Medicine, has identified serious brain damage, or CTE -- chronic traumatic encephalopathy -- not only in the autopsied brains of professional football players but in at least one high school player's brain as well.
He would, however, like to donate his brain to Boston University and its School of Medicine and Sports Legacy Institute, which studies brain disease and head trauma.
They read that there are over 2 million brain injuries a year among high school athletes.
That side of my brain had begun to develop in high school, largely because I was a competitive runner who read books on training and learned to coach myself.
He has done research at the Harvard School of Public Health on the brain drain of doctors out of India.
But my Intuition is a wellspring of wisdom so far beyond the halls of law school and the walls of my brain.
The current criteria on brain death were set by a Harvard Medical School committee in 1968, at a time when organ transplantation was making great strides.
Though we aren't likely to return to an agricultural life or to stop feeding our children well and sending them to school, the very flexibility of the developing brain points to solutions.
Some experts estimate that there are four billion devices connected to the internet but, according to researchers at the Stanford School of Medicine, a typical healthy human brain contains about 200 billion nerve cells, or neurons, linked to one another via hundreds of trillions of tiny contacts called synapses, that function like microprocessors.
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But something chemical had happened in my brain when I saw Elizabeth Taylor while I was in grade school.
"They are trying to bring something new and a little different to the understanding of how the brain works, " said neuroscientist Stephen Smith at Stanford University Medical School.
He can now move his fingers and toes again, and last month doctors at Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis, US, discovered his brain has maintained a near-normal ability to detect feeling and movement.
"It revolutionized research, " said Harvard Medical School researcher Wim Vanduffel, who uses optogenetics to study the primate brain.
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Their project was inspired by introductory neurobiology school lessons that ascribed different activities to the two hemispheres of the brain.
It also belongs to John Medina, noted molecular biologist and author of Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home and School.
Cesar had played quarterback for his high school football team and knew that through practice and repetition the human brain can learn almost any skill.
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In high school, Hotz built the Neuropilot, a sort of Segway controlled by brain waves, which you could drive around by thinking about it.
The brain clearly showed itself as Quinones-Hinojosa's destiny one Friday night in medical school when the hospital was near-empty.
Dr. CAMELIA KUHNEN (Assistant Professor of Finance, Kellogg School of Management): It's a very, very old part of the brain.
However, even if you didn't finish high school or have other factors you can't change, you can still challenge your brain to preserve mental function, Fiocco says.
Bradford Dickerson, a neurology professor at Harvard Medical School, and colleagues have shown in studies that the size of certain parts of the brain important to emotional processing is associated with how many friends we have.
Two years after his brain-cancer diagnosis, he recently ran a sub-five-minute mile for the first time since high school.
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