In the United States,Parkinson's patients can receive deep brain stimulation at about three hundred medical centers.

VOA: special.2009.02.03

But imagine that what's gone on is there's been decay of the brain structures that underwrite the cognitive functioning.

但这样设想一下,大脑的结构正在败坏,破坏了认知能力。

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It's a device called a deep brain stimulator, developed by a company called Medtronic, and it looks like a pacemaker that's implanted inside your body.

这个装置叫做深部脑刺激器,由美敦力公司研发,看上去像一个植入体内的起搏器

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Doctors do not know exactly how the brain stimulation works to help patients with Parkinson's.

VOA: special.2009.02.03

If there's enough redundancy in the brain so that even if your right hemisphere got destroyed, your left hemisphere,you still have all the same memories,desires,beliefs.Good enough.

如果大脑拥有足够冗余,导致即便右脑被破坏掉，左脑依然拥有，所有的记忆，欲望和信仰，这就够了。

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A surgical operation called deep-brain stimulation also is used to treat Parkinson's disease.

VOA: special.2010.11.02

Imagine a virus, for instance, that captured an animal's brain and then modified the animal's brain such that the animal would run out and bite other animals so as to pass on the virus.

想象一个病毒，例如，控制动物大脑，然后修改大脑,这个动物会跑出去咬其他动物,以传播病毒。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Deep brain stimulation is not the answer for all Parkinson's patients.

VOA: special.2010.11.02

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

It doesnt matter whether they are at great elevation or at sea level. John Geiger suggests that the brains effort to create a Third Man is not an accident of human brain structure, or a sign of injury in extreme conditions.

VOA: special.2010.02.24

I think it's in your brain, the back of your head.

应该是在大脑中，后脑勺那里。

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It's a total mystery,". He says brain studies are shedding light on the pieces of the puzzle and might one day solve the mystery.

VOA: standard.2010.01.15

Now today I'm gonna focus on is what is happening in the center's posterior in your brain, and can it help us to predict what you're about to choose.

今天我的重点,是大脑中央后回中的活动，及其能否帮助我们对受试者的选择作出预测。

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"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

I think it's the left side-- The left side of the brain.

我想是左边,大脑的左侧

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

The only way to be sure a person has Alzheimer's is to examine the victim's brain after death.

VOA: special.2009.09.15

But it's worked on your brain to the point where you get to that sort of what I like to think of that bar room militancy, whereby if a guy says, "would you pass the peanuts," you say, "oh yeah!"

这会作用于你的大脑,让你达到一种,我认为的,在酒吧里准备打架的状态,就像如果有人说,"请你把花生递给我",你会说,"哦耶"

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Doctor McCarron says the worldwide similarity suggests that a persons brain might decide how much salt to eat.

VOA: special.2010.03.03

Further down this line here are embryonic or let's say adult brain stem cells.

沿着这条线再往后一些就是胚胎,或者就说是成人脑中的干细胞吧

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

He had Huntington's Chorea, the same disease of the brain and nervous system that had killed his mother.

VOA: special.2010.06.20

And so then we get a new personality and you say, Oh look,that's going to be you,your body,your brain.

然后得到新的人格，你会说，看着，这就是你，你的身体和大脑。

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For example, genes direct formation of the fetus's brain at set times in a woman's pregnancy.

VOA: special.2010.03.23

And so that's the part of the brain that's the key part of a body for the purpose of personal identity.

所以大脑,这个身体最关键的部位,就是人格统一性的关键。

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She says her hope comes from her belief in four things: the human brain,the human spirit, nature's strength and the energy of young people.

VOA: special.2009.11.18

The way to read this diagram is it's as if it were my brain and I am facing this way.

查看这张示意图的方法是,设想这是我的大脑,面朝这个方向

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Often,the brains response is to create its own input, in the form of a hallucination.

VOA: special.2010.02.24

There's other viruses that infect cells of the brain, of the kidney, of the liver.

另外还有能感染脑细胞,肾细胞和肝细胞的病毒

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Researchers say they observed shortages in the brain's reward system in patients with A.D.H.D.

VOA: special.2009.09.29

They're producing electrical signals in the brain they're not recording from the brain, but it's not that big of a difference.

它们只能向大脑发出信号,而不能记录反馈大脑的信号,但是这两者技术要求差别不大

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What's really going on is you're floating in the psychologist's tank in their lab with the electrodes hooked up your brain.

真实的情景是你飘浮在,实验室里的心理学研究容器里,电极连接着你的脑袋。

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