Meanwhile the Human Brain Project will attempt to simulate the trillions of neural connections that make up a human brain in an effort to comprehend how the organ functions.

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Bundles of nerve fibers connecting our "thinking" brain with ancient regions that control our primeval "feeling" brain make up two sides of our emotional mind.

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Recent research by the Eating Disorders Research Unit at the Institute of Psychiatry in London found that eating disorders could be due to the physical or genetic make-up of the brain.

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Hemorrhagic strokes, which involve bleeds in the brain, make up the remainder.

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Lots of junk food, the theory went, can mess up your brain and make you depressed.

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It isn't at all clear that Merck's brain drugs will come soon enough, and be successful enough, to make up for the expiration of the Zocor patent.

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He said brain scanning techniques and medication had advanced, and treatments based on a patient's genetic make-up were being tested.

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