There are more than 100 types of brain cancer and of the approximately 600, 000 Americans with brain or nervous system tumors about 124, 000 have malignant brain cancers.
Windows is the operating system--the brain and central nervous system--of 90% of the world's PCs.
The same receptor helps regulate satiety and plays a part in a multitude of cravings in the brain and endocrine system.
The modest lobby opens up into a pristine production lab filled with skilled glassblowers, blue-flaming torches and dazzling glass models of the human heart, brain and vascular system.
The illness is identified as the consequence of multiple "biological alterations" affecting the brain and nervous system. iReport.com: Do you know someone affected by Gulf War illness?
After an initial evaluation, your doctor may refer you to a doctor who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of conditions that affect the brain and nervous system (neurologist).
Of the 241 cases reported so far this year, 144 were severe cases in which the virus spread to the brain and nervous system and caused encephalitis or other problems.
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The outbreak is of fungal meningitis, an inflammation in the brain or central nervous system.
In 2010, there were 13, 140 deaths from brain and other nervous system cancers in the United States.
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The goal is to prevent the degeneration of the nervous system and brain that is caused by the disease.
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He developed a system called Brain Gate that was implanted in four patients.
First of all, the brain is a complex system that develops, in a very large part, through its interactions with the environment.
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Its onset probably has to do with significant changes in the neuroendocrine (brain-hormone) system leading up to and occurring just after birth.
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Prosecutor Joe Boyd said Twin M had suffered numerous injuries, including fractures to the ribs, legs and arms and skull damage affecting the brain and central nervous system.
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.
The brain's normal pain-sensory system, in which nerve endings send messages to the brain about a threat, goes awry in migraines.
My first suggestion is for anyone associated with the educational system to read Brain Rules.
Future studies will investigate how obesity affects the same system in the brain.
For the first four months the brain was monitored so the system could learn a patient's brainwaves before a seizure.
Some of these chemicals are already in all our brains, cannabis smokers or not, as the brain has its own endocannabinoid system.
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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They focused their work on a chemical messaging system in the brain already known to play a key part in the regulation of mood and anxiety.
Seizures occur when the electrical system of the brain malfunctions.
They have developed a program that filters out the noise in much the same way that the human brain's reticular activating system filters out most of our sensual stimuli, and only passes on the information we need to function and survive.
The answer, he said, was to tap into the brain's "hierarchical" system used to control the body.
This happens because the human brain contains a giant pattern recognition system.
The two boxes form the alternative nervous system's alternative brain.
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