These technologies will open new doors to explore how the brain records, processes, uses, stores, and retrieves vast quantities of information, and shed light on the complex links between brain function and behavior.

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It uses a different part of the brain and it means by working on that side of the brain it helps them build up their speech function.

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But he said the detrimental effect on cognition could be due to be attributable to poor heart and lung function affecting the brain, or directly harmful effects of smoking on brain - as well as lung - tissue.

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The researchers compared the results of tests of brain function on 33 amateur football players with those from 27 middle-distance runners and swimmers.

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The researchers hardest hit are those who rely on animals for the better part of their experiments, such as Dr. Gordon Fishell, the associate director of the NYU Neuroscience Institute, whose work focuses on connecting brain function to disease.

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Scientists will also focus on how the brain records, stores and processes information, and investigate how brain function is linked to behaviour.

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