Researchers discovered reduced activity in a part of the cerebral cortex of the brain called the "fusiform gyrus".

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In her left brain, the mathy part of her cerebral cortex, lay the calculations that caused her to derive that 5% estimate.

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They concentrate on the hippocampus -- part of the cerebral cortex which sits deep in the brain -- where short-term memories become long-term ones.

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The language centres of the brain, known as Broca's area and Wernicke's area, after the 19th-century researchers who discovered them, are part of the cerebral cortex on the left-hand side of the organ.

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It is surely no coincidence that much of the activity Dr Okubo found is in that characteristically human part of the brain, the enlarged cerebral cortex, rather than in the limbic system.

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The Russian move is no doubt part of the psychological warfare integral to this cerebral exercise.

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For its part, Merck notes that its BACE inhibitor recently demonstrated a reduction in cerebral spinal fluid, or CSF, a biomarker, in a Phase I study.

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There was a cancer patient recovering from surgery to remove part of his lung, and a patient who had had surgery to repair a cerebral aneurysm.

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