Word: braine
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crowing glory of a successful imitation of the human body would certainly be duplication of the thought processes of the human brain. Professor Carl E. Hewitt is exploring possibilities in this area...
...people who smoke want to, but Skinner would ask, why do they want to? Since Pasteur, we no longer believe in the spontaneous generation of life, yet we still believe in the spontaneous generation of thoughts and feelings. Thoughts and feelings, though, have a physical basis--the brain. And the brain is changed by our every interaction with the environment. We want to, then, because of some unique personal history of interaction with the environment...
...procedure involves injecting radioactive material into the brain of the suspected Alzheimer's victim and then taking photo-like images which record the pattern of blood flow in the patient's brain...
Alzheimer's victims have a decreased blood supply to certain brain areas, said Dr. B. Leonard Holman, the hospital's director of nuclear medicine. Holman and a team of doctors found that many of the disease's victims have identical brain "signatures," or blood flow patterns...
Holman said additional research will focus on related forms of dementia and the development of "brain signature" patterns in Alzheimer's disease...