The immediate reaction is the old brain, and the old brain functions in its own traditional, accepted, reactionary, animalistic sense.
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As patients age, genetic mutations or unknown environmental factors may boost the production of deformed proteins, or old brain cells simply may become less able to dispose of debris.
On January 20th Mrs Inglis was convicted of murdering her 22-year-old, brain-damaged son, Thomas.
Scientists have recently discovered a 520 million-year old insect brain.
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Sanchez also referred to a chart showing the typical weight of a 7-year-old's brain: 1, 200 grams.
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Professor Michael Kopelman, a neuropsychiatrist, told the Old Bailey that brain scans of Mr George had produced "severely abnormal" results.
Herberman demonstrated a model showing that the radiation from cell phones would penetrate far deeper into a 5-year-old's brain than an adult's.
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The 15-year-old's brain swelled dangerously days after the shooting, so doctors in Pakistan extracted a section of her skull about the size of a hand.
One of the first children Nares helped was a 1-year-old boy with a brain tumor who required frequent chemotherapy treatments.
Dr. CAMELIA KUHNEN (Assistant Professor of Finance, Kellogg School of Management): It's a very, very old part of the brain.
The 18-year-old suffered a severe brain injury and died two days later.
The 66-year-old had an incurable brain condition called cerebellar ataxia.
This is a 70-year-old technique that records brain activity.
Memories are not held in their entirety in the brain like old movie clips, but are maintained as a kind of chemical residue of the original perception, which could be thought of as a hash value or remainder, but not a one-way algorithm at all.
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And contrary to the old dogma that the brain is genetically fixed in form and function, he says, the new understanding of "neuroplasticity" means the brain has the ability to change in significant ways throughout life, not only as a result of experiences but also by our own mental activity.
And although imaging studies show that middle-aged people may use different brain regions to do the same old tasks, cognitive tests show that apart from brute speed, the brain's abilities are not diminished in middle age.
Fifteen-year-old Michael McIlveen died from brain injuries the day after he and two friends were attacked in 2006.
It is in this process that the brain jumbles around old ideas with new images to create new syntheses.
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We prefer to avoid awkward scientific findings on the biology of violence that question our concepts of free will and punishment and harken back to the bad old days of eugenics and brain lobectomies.
This unfortunate 28 year old has a tumor of the brain stem that cannot be cured.
Dr Loucas Kartsounis, an expert in brain and behaviour from Old Church Hospital, Romford, Essex, UK, said emotion was a complex concept, which was difficult to study.
The 55-year-old SNP politician was diagnosed with a brain tumour in March 2012 and underwent surgery.
Tributes have been paid to an 11-year-old boy who has died from a brain tumour after raising thousands of pounds for charity.
He knows little about his donor, except that his heart and lungs came from a 27-year-old Welsh man who had suffered a brain haemorrhage.
Unfortunately he died in August 2007 from a brain aneurysm at just 45 years old.
The music that springs from the brain of 21-year-old Beirut mastermind Zach Condon continues to defy categorization.
Laxmi Saman Muran's one-year-old son is suffering from tuberculosis of the brain.
"After a while it gets old and not so fulfilling to take the brain out when (an athlete) is dead, " said Bailes, a neurosurgeon and director of the Brain Injury Research Institute, which focuses on the study of traumatic brain injuries and their prevention.
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