Word: braine
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This technique uses slightly radioactive dyes, which are injected into the bloodstream and then tracked in the blood by special rotating cameras. A three-dimensional image of blood flow is created, which doctors use to diagnose diseases of the brain, heart and other vital organs...
Holman gained renown in radiology circles in 1986 for his application of SPECT to identify brain activity associated with Alzheimer's disease...
Holman was perhaps best known, however, for his study of cocaine's effects on the brain. Using three-dimensional scans of brain activity, he and his colleagues at Brigham and Women's discovered that cocaine impedes blood flow to the brain and other parts of the body...
...laboratory specifically studies how the vertebrate retina takes in visual information, processes and transforms this information and then processes electrical signals which serve as input to the brain...
They are currently trying to figure out how the features of a visual image are encoded in the spike trains that retinal ganglion cells send to the brain...