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...stroke patients can help them to regain lost motor skills. The non-invasive therapy, called transcranial magnetic simulation (TMS), uses a figure eight-shaped coil to deliver weak, pulsating electrical currents to specific areas of the brain. When the therapy is applied for 10 to 20 minutes to the brain??s motor cortex, the magnetic field generated by the electrical currents “improved motor functions in stroke patients,” Fregni said. When healthy, the two sides of the brain communicate with each other. After a stroke, when one side of the brain becomes damaged...
...youth, which many people outgrow,” says Labrie, one of four authors who analyzed data from a 2001 national study of college student gambling habits conducted by the Harvard School of Public Health. “It may have something to do with development of the brain??the superego, the part that makes decisions, grows a little more slowly...
Less than an hour before game-time, the Harvard team jogged around the lower level of the Dunkin’ Donuts Center. The inner workings of my mind requested the Rocky theme from my brain??s jukebox...
...turn that story around, Hauser is now gathering some of the first empirical data ever collected about the processes of human thought, much of which comes straight from Harvard’s monkey lab. He’s found that morality may be hard-wired into the human brain??and missing from the minds of animals...
Evidence shows that contamination from mercury is extremely dangerous. Mercury poisoning can cause severe neurological and developmental damage as it affects the way information is processed by the brain??sensory perception in particular. Moreover, this type of poisoning is especially harmful to children and pregnant women yet, sadly, such a danger is not far removed...