Haussler suggests that slight differences in the way in which HAR1F works in the brains of people and those of primates would translate into major differences in brain anatomy.

Brain research and learning style theory relate that there are twenty strategies that all trainers should use when presenting to adult audiences.

Animal studies demonstrate conclusively that nicotine damages the developing brain by altering the formation, survival, and differentiation of brain cells, eliciting deficits in structure, synaptic function, and behavioral performance (Levin and Slotkin 1998; Slotkin 1998, 2004; Walker et al.

Next, eight of the volunteers went through brain training.

Students use scientific data to draw conclusions about the effects of toluene (a toxic component of many inhalants) on brain chemistry, behavior, and motor activity; students learn that the chemicals in inhalant vapors can lead to addiction.

Methamphetamine tricks brain cells into pumping out very high, unnatural levels of dopamine.

This view holds that the mind is fundamentally a computer program implemented in the brain's hardware--one which could be replicated in a different physical substrate.

This was the third year I had attended the annual meeting to promote the work in brain science being conducted at RIKEN Brain Science Institute in Saitama, north of Tokyo.

The children's brain scans showed increased activity in the men that controls language recognition, the study says.

Children with Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) have an acquired open or closed injury to the brain from an external physical force that results in a functional disability or psychosocial impairment, or both, that adversely affects educational performance.

In a study that hasn't been published yet, Kramer and his colleagues compared the brain scans of 55 people who were middle-aged and older.

The New England Journal of Medicine of April 19, 2001, published an article which stated that the consensus in regard to the equation of "brain death" with death is not free of metaphysical, cultural, legal, and medical controversy.

Any possibility of conflict between personal privacy and the development of technology for brain investigations is an extremely important concept in a free society, and we must take it very seriously and examine it carefully.

SPECT also scanned a group of Franciscan sisters at prayer and found they, too, experienced a calming of this "orientation area" of the brain, which gave them a "tangible sense of proximity to and merging with God."

Although the overall incidence of traumatic brain injury is difficult to determine, perhaps as many as 7-10 million new cases of traumatic brain injury are reported each year (Berker, 1996: Conboy, Barth, & Boll, 1986).