Do we really have the brain capacity to generate and retain such structures in our heads?
Clearly when it comes to making decisions, it is better to have the brain activated, rather than not.
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This is a reminder to get your affairs in order while you still have the brain to do so.
In contrast, for every 10 women, four will have the female brain, four will have the balanced brain, and two will have a male brain.
Imaging studies show that the best readers have the most brain activity in the rear, instant-word-forming area when they read.
While every sports fan appreciates the power of hope, few comprehend the zombie-like power variable rewards can have on the brain.
"If you had a smoker compared to a nonsmoker and were able to do imaging study of the brain, the smoker would have billions more of the receptors in areas of the brain that have to do with pleasure and reward, " says Richard Hurt, an internist who heads the Mayo Clinic's Nicotine Dependence Center.
About half of the nerve cells created in a developing brain have died by the time that brain has formed.
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This was intervened and prevented by a relative who happened to be a physician, or else the flood gates would have opened in the brain.
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One Aventis entry could become the first chemotherapy effective against tumors that have traveled to the brain.
Michael Studdert-Kennedy, a psychologist at the Haskins Laboratory, in New Haven, Connecticut, and one of the most vigorous critics of the approach, argues that other studies have shown that the brain processes speech sounds completely differently from non-speech sounds, and that the hearing problem identified by Dr Merzenich's group thus has nothing to do with dyslexia.
In the case of Fullerenes, an overzealous regulator could potentially have used the fish brain damage finding to shut down Buckyball production.
Many of the visitors have been active in the brain trust of the Summit Series.
Investors that are cerebrally driven (i.e. have a GTB biased to the brain side) have market views and resulting portfolios that are too conservative.
After the Dubai Ports World fiasco lawmakers have harbor protection on the brain. (When the United Arab Emirates-owned company took over six U.S. ports, it touched off a political firestorm and was forced to put them up for sale.) Congress is turning its attention to the screening of seaborne cargo.
Moser have been researching the brain since 1988, and in 2005 they announced the discovery of so-called grid cells.
As an individual continues to walk, studies have shown, the brain eventually self-corrects errors and evens out the gait.
Psychiatrists have long trained the brain's pre-frontal cortex to fight against acute conditions like anxiety, post-traumatic stress and attention-deficit disorder.
"In many ways, neurosurgeons have been viewing the brain between the mouth and the nose for quite a long time, " he said.
On that note, scientists have learned that the brain finds it easier to process information presented as an image rather than as words or numbers.
Researchers at the Allen Institute For Brain Science have completed their four year task of mapping the brain based on all known parts of the genome.
Dr Eden and Dr Zeffiro have also compared the brain activity of dyslexics and readers who were given a task that has nothing to do with reading.
Neuroscientists have concluded that the brain networks that are used for basic survival are the same ones that insure that we can breathe air and that we have food and water.
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For the first time, a drug appears to have prevented some of the brain damage and disability associated with the most common type of stroke.
But researchers at the Centre for the Developing Brain have found ways to counter the effects of these movements, building up full three-dimensional pictures while the foetus is in motion.
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Sacks spoke to the BBC about his life and how much we still have to learn about the brain.
It provides more evidence that what's going on in the rest of the body, from inflammation to belly fat, can have major effects on the brain, he added.
And long-term brain studies have demonstrated that the structure of the brain can change based on behavior and environment.
Dr Gerome Breen, from the Institute of Psychiatry in London, said that the differences found in the rats were very likely to have their equivalent in the human brain.
Some studies have found that people with internet addiction have fewer dopamine receptors in certain areas of the brain, and others have suggested additional ways in which dopamine function might be impaired.
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