Japan didn't legalize organ transplants from brain-dead donors until 1997, according to the Japan Organ Transplant Network, a non-governmental group.

CNN: Spain leads the way in organ donation

Apparently, a 14-year old teenager in New Zealand doesn't visit Engadget (or use his brain) a whole lot -- you'd think that team of crooks who swiped a PlayStation, only to return for the power cord and eventually end up in police custody might have swayed him from doing the exact same thing.

ENGADGET: New Zealand teen jacks Xbox 360, divulges credentials to Microsoft

T-shirts stamped with a scan of her brain.

ECONOMIST: New Orleans

The challenge for our workshop is remove from the students the common 'I am a left-brain person, I can't be creative!'

CNN: Learning to be creative

In other words, not just going for the t-bone or the, you know - but eating the heart, eating the liver, eating the brain, eating, you know, any part of the animal that is safe to eat, which is most of the animal.

NPR: Former Vegetarians Start Magazine About Meat

So, we don't know how the long-term use of benzodiazepines changes the brain, nor do we know how long it would take for all effects of these medications to go away.

CNN: What are the long-term brain effects of Xanax?

Plus, socializing while playing cards adds a level of unpredictability that gives your brain a charge--something solo games don't offer.

CNN: Helpful ways to boost your memory

Of the four million Americans who suffer this brain-destroying malady, the large majority don't develop symptoms until they are well past 60, and many not until they reach their 90s.

WSJ: A Gene Gives a Hint Of How Long a Person Might Hope to Live

Several years ago he read a paper in a scientific journal by a Japanese scientist who had discovered D-serine in key areas of the brain but didn't know why it was there.

FORBES: Repairing The Brain

Several years ago he read in a scientific journal a paper by a Japanese scientist who had discovered D-serine in key areas of the brain but didn't know why it was there.

FORBES: Repairing The Brain

When that happens, the brain's built-in alarm to breathe doesn't go off, despite a lack of oxygen.

CNN: Water safety expert: 'Drowning doesn't just happen'

But a problem with brain-training games is that people often get bored and don't continue with them.

WSJ: When Computer Games May Keep the Brain Nimble

If your body and brain don't register something as a terrible threat, it doesn't cause stress-related problems later.

CNN: Have you heard of a heart drug that also helps PTSD?

This Schumpeter fellow--I didn't even know he was dead--must be one nasty guy, I mused in my Carter-era addled brain.

FORBES: Digital Rules

"You don't have to restore brain cells to restore sleep, " said Dr Walker who described their aim as "jump-starting" the system.

BBC: Boosting sleep 'may slow memory rot'