Word: braine
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...next time you wake up after a good night's sleep. you might want to give your brain a rest. Researchers at Harvard Medical School have found that during certain phases of the human sleep cycle, the mind is more active than it is during waking hours...
...interesting thing was that before, nobody had known that the brain was always active. People couldn't figure out where dreams came from--were they angels or signs from the supernatural? No one knew. People in the nineteenth century thought they came from the outside or from something like your stomach. What we found out was that the brain itself was causing dreaming, sending signals to itself...
...detect brain activity during REM sleep in his laboratory at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Hobson uses electroencephalograms (EEG). He says measurements of the brain's electrical output, made by attaching electrodes to the head, show that the brain is almost 90 percent more active during REM sleep than at any other slumber time. The normal human passes through five distinct stages of sleep, with the REM stage following the lighter, first two stages. Sleep stages three and four--following REM chronologically--are deep sleep periods...
...secular terms too, Superman represents something quite special. "It's very hard for me to be silly about Superman," says Christopher Reeve, who plays the role in the movies, "because I've seen firsthand how he actually transforms people's lives. I have seen children dying of brain tumors who wanted as their last request to talk to me, and have gone to their graves with a peace brought on by knowing that their belief in this kind of character is intact. I've seen that Superman really matters. It's not Superman the tongue- in-cheek cartoon character they...
Eleven seconds after UVM's Toby Ducolon was sent to the box for interference, Lappin took a pass from defenseman Brain McColgan and drilled a slapshot past Cat goalie Mike Milham...