In the United States alone, more than five million people are said to suffer from this slowly increasing brain disorder.

VOA: special.2009.09.15

OK. The process of writing is exercising both halves of your brain, and it's actually helping you learn, and so taking notes is really valuable thing.

好的，记笔记的过程同时锻炼了,你的左右脑，而且实际上帮助了你的学习，所以记笔记真的是一件特别有价值的事情。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

So imagine that over the weekend, the mad scientist copied my memories, beliefs,desires,fears,ambitions,goals, intentions and imprinted that on somebody else's brain.

想象一下一个周末，某个疯狂科学家复制了我的记忆，信仰，欲望，恐惧，野心，目标，以及意向，并植入另一个人的大脑。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The researcher said that before the body begins to freeze, cold can cause changes in brain chemistry which lead to hallucinations.

VOA: special.2010.02.24

And we develop methods to measure the visually responsive parts of cortex and how the world is mapped onto the brain.

我们开发出一些方法，来测量大脑皮层的视觉反应部分,以及外界的事物如何绘制与大脑当中。

斯坦福公开课 - 7个颠覆你思想的演讲课程节选

Studies have shown that activation of the trigeminal nerve may come from a part of the brain called the hypothalamus.

VOA: special.2011.05.03

Somebody with a severe and profound loss of mental faculties-- the deficit will be shown correspondingly in her brain.

对于严重丧失心理官能的人来说,我们可以看到她在大脑相应部位的损伤

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

"We looked at a very high resolution picture of the brain, where we can actually measure what's called cortical thickness.

VOA: special.2011.07.29

Only cells in your brain make the enzymes that produce certain neuron transmitters that are responsible for brain function.

只有脑细胞产生,促进神经传导的相关酶,由此维持大脑功能

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

For example, a person who speaks and reads fifteen languages, or a medical doctor who operates on the brain.

VOA: special.2010.06.27

Some people can train themselves to do it, but it's contrary to the way the brain wants you to behave.

一些人可以训练自己做到这些,但这违背了大脑的意愿

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Clots can block the flow of blood to the heart or brain and cause a heart attack or stroke.

VOA: special.2009.10.20

Does anyone have that in their brain somewhere for ready use? I don't, in fact, so it's actually okay if you don't know all your common ions, if you missed that part.

你们有谁有印象它们有什么用吗？,我当时是不知道，所以如果你们不记得,这部分也没有关系。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

They showed that patients who received deep brain stimulation had better control of their symptoms than those who only took medicine.

VOA: special.2009.02.03

I think we can see demonstrative from these charts, that man has done a rather admirable job of imitating the human brain.

我觉得我们可以从这些图表中看到一些说明，人们做了一个非常令人钦佩的工作,来模仿人类的大脑。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

There is a risk that giving a patient a strong blood thinner during a stroke can cause bleeding inside the brain.

VOA: special.2009.09.22

that these questions would come to the Council my brain is actually too small to process such questions.

这些问题都会摆在委员会面前,我的头脑实际上太小，因而无法思考这些问题。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

But the wiring,the cables between the points in the brain, one to another, may be disrupted in some way."

VOA: special.2010.12.21

Now, these comments, frankly, are brain-damaged, or computationally challenged if you prefer.

现在，这些注释，实在点说，没什么用，或者说是对计算有挑战的,如果你喜欢这么说的话。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

When it reaches the brain, levodopa is changed into dopamine, the chemical that is lacking in people with the disease.

VOA: special.2009.04.07

So the research I am going to share with you-- some of it is taken using the brain scans, other is self-evaluation.

我卢和大家讨论的各种研究-,有些使用大脑扫描，其他是自我评估。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Nothing happened when they turned on the light in cells in an area of the brain called the subthalamic nucleus.

VOA: special.2009.04.07

What did you hear that allowed your brain to instantly go to that decision, make that correct decision?

你听到了什么,让你的大脑做出了,正确的决定

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

The brain also needs a "cognitive rest," they say, by restricting activities like video games, texting and watching TV.

VOA: special.2009.10.28

And if that's right,shouldn't we say-- Remember,the best form of the body view, I argued previously,was the brain version.

如果那是正确的，我们是不是该说…,别忘了，肉体理论的最佳描述，如我之前主张的，就是大脑理论。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Their central nervous system may tell the brain that there is pain even when there is no cause for the pain.

VOA: special.2011.07.26

In fact, it's a specific person's brain, and what's interesting about the brain is that little white mark there.

实际上这是个特殊人物的大脑,有意思的是,大脑上有个白色的小标记

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

The Cleveland Clinic says the cause of cluster headaches is in a brain area known as a trigeminal-autonomic reflex pathway.

VOA: special.2010.03.30

What happens is a negative symptoms are alleviated, and we start to resurrect the signal in this part of the brain.

结果阴性症状得到了缓解，而大脑中这一部分区域的信号,也开始得到恢复。

斯坦福公开课 - 7个颠覆你思想的演讲课程节选

So it's important, in particular, to understand that from the physicalist's point of view, the mind is not the brain.

因此,从物理主义的,角度理解这一点尤为重要,心灵并不是大脑

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选