Word: braine
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...letter to John Feussner, chief researchand development officer for the VA headquarters,Frank wrote "it is my impression that Ms. Bodkinand Ms. [Danielle] Brain [executive director ofthe PGO] make a persuasive case that theDepartment ought to conduct an investigation intothe project in question...
...standout in a very strong cast is Reihan Morshed Salam '01 as Ira. He provoked laughter from the first moment he stumbled onstage as the hysterical, perpetually tardy hypochondriac of the group. Whether throwing shoes out the window after a contest with Brian (Daniel Brunet), writing "I have a brain tumor" on the wall as "proof" of his illness or fighting with Max over a line, Salam stole the show whenever he got a chance. He had quite a bit of competition from Milt (Geoff Oxnard '99), the womanizing flashy dresser, and Val (Fred Hood '02), the choleric Russian head...
...scientists plan to expand the computer's recognition skills by teaching it to identify all 46 muscle actions in the Ekman catalogue. They will then program the computer to recognize the various combinations of these movements, pouring live video images of human volunteers directly into the machine's brain. Eventually, the research at Sejnowski's and other labs could lead to a working lie detector, one that would be far more reliable and much less intrusive than existing polygraphs, which measure such reactions as heartbeat and sweating that clever subjects can control. Says Bartlett: "It would spot in an instant...
That's what makes a report in the current Nature so promising. U.S. and European scientists have shown that patients can learn, by trial and error, to control a type of brain waves called slow cortical potentials. By hooking the patients up to a computer via an electroencephalogram, the researchers taught two ALS sufferers to mentally signal the computer to pick out letters on a screen, spelling out messages. The process is agonizingly slow--the average pace is about two characters a minute--but it should eventually improve. And compared with utter silence, it must seem blistering...
...Scientists discover a natural opiate, now known as an endorphin (endogenous morphine), in the brain...