Word: braine
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...your Zoloft? Unsatisfied by your Xenical? Help may be on the way. A new technology has emerged that may take the edge off depression (or appetite). The treatment, called vagus nerve stimulation, consists of mild electric shocks from an implanted generator that are fed into the depths of the brain via a nerve in the neck. The current travels from the pacemaker-like gadget in the patient?s chest, through wires to the vagus nerve, and delivers the "feel good" or "I?m full" message to the brain every few minutes. While the precise connection between the treatment...
AILING. DUDLEY MOORE, 64, puckish composer and star of Arthur; of progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), an incurable brain disorder similar to Parkinson's disease; at a rehabilitation center in West Orange...
...Bronx Zoo, however, pathologist McNamara was becoming increasingly concerned that the coincidence was too unlikely to ignore. Over the Labor Day weekend, several rare birds in the zoo's collection had suddenly died, and her autopsies showed heart and brain damage. She promptly sent tissue samples to a U.S. Department of Agriculture veterinary lab in Ames, Iowa. Finding no evidence of equine encephalitis or other suspected pathogens, the lab forwarded her samples to a CDC lab in Fort Collins, Colo., for further study...
...hefty linebacker. "They shouldn't fire her." Sophomore Kevin Owen agreed: "It's not his fault he has a disease." And Gentry Stroud, a 16-year-old basketball star, lamented the departure of "a cool teacher. Just because you change how you look, it doesn't change your brain...
...strictures. "I liked the idea of it being a rescue action from the elevation of cosmetics," he says, "the idea of not hiding behind the trickery." Bremner found that the stripped-down system let him focus on his craft: "I don't have to reserve a portion of my brain to monitor the on-set mechanics--lighting rigs, camera tracks, field of focus. I can dedicate myself fully to realize what I want...