But Merck doesn't have much experience in central nervous system drugs, whose success is more difficult to judge than heart drugs like Mevacor, Prinivil and Zocor.

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Now she doesn't need the machine but meditates, more in tune with her nervous system, able to calm herself through concentrated thought.

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The field is so new that it didn't have a name until 1995, when Indiana University neuroscientist Olaf Sporns dubbed the nervous system's tangle of cells and synapses the "connectome" (pronounced connect-tome).

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