More important still, states like North Carolina, Virginia and Texas continue to grow more rapidly than the older brain-center states.
To truly understand how the brain operates in both healthy and diseased states, scientists will map out the brain's neural networks and unravel how they interrelate.
Likewise, a reductionist who identifies conscious states with states of the brain is not eliminating consciousness, but rather telling you something about its nature.
Meningiomas represent about one-third of all primary brain tumors and are most frequently found in middle-aged women, the American Brain Tumor Association's website states.
According to the National Cancer Institute, each year about 19, 000 people in the United States are diagnosed with primary brain cancers.
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Looking at 90 brain regions, the researchers created maps of brain activity during each of the four mental states.
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Keynote speakers include American economist Jeffrey Sachs (by video) who will present the investment and productivity argument for ECCE, Jack Shonkoff, professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and Chair of the National Scientific Council on the Developing Child in the United States, who will speak on brain research and child development, and Danny Faure, Vice-President of the Seychelles.
In 2010, there were 13, 140 deaths from brain and other nervous system cancers in the United States.
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In 1981, the Uniform Determination of Death Act made brain death a legal form of death in all 50 states.
The Agriculture Department confirmed the first case of mad cow disease in America on December 23, 2003, in a cow born in Alberta, Canada, in April 1997, only four months before the United States and Canada began banning the use of brain and spinal cord tissue in cattle feed.
While the drug industry has tested dozens of compounds to treat the acute phases of stroke and brain trauma, only a few medicines for lifting patients out of vegetative states have been brought into large-scale trials.
For this amount of brain-power and strategic and tactical thinking to be lost to the United States because of an affair with his biographer will no doubt seem to many in Europe and the rest of the world to be completely disproportionate.
Dr. Boustani, who is also associate director of the Healthy Aging Brain Center, says he is working with health-care systems in other states to duplicate the program, with an aim to affordably scale up the model to a national level.
She has used brain scans to track the activity of chemicals in the brains of people in various states of romantic agitation.
Mr Bush's decision to intervene in the Schiavo case annoyed both defenders of states' rights and the business lobby, which regarded the battle over the dying brain-damaged woman in Florida as a distraction.
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Approximately 400, 000 people in the United States have MS, marked by an abnormal immune system that attacks and kills a person's own brain cells.
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