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...during sleep or sedation. "That was the same here," says Jarup of the current study, suggesting that the human body's response may be similarly automatic. "It's not that you're annoyed and that's why your blood pressure goes up. It's something that's in the brain, and we really don't know what the mechanism is.... It could well be some kind of stress reaction, which is recorded subconsciously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nighttime Noise and Blood Pressure | 2/13/2008 | See Source »

Tope Lanre-Amos ’09, fresh out of an all-girls high school, came to Harvard with great expectations. Besides looking forward to living in the historic freshman yard and taking classes with renowned professors, Lanre-Amos had boys on her brain...

Author: By Sarah B. Schechter, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Love, Actually | 2/13/2008 | See Source »

...including breast and prostate cancer, early puberty, miscarriage, low sperm count, and immune-system changes. Critics also claim that in developing infants, such sex-hormone effects may come into play at exposure levels far below what health authorities have deemed safe for adults. "The reproductive system is developing, the brain is developing, the immune system is developing," David Carpenter, director of the Institute for Health and the Environment at the University at Albany, told a news conference Thursday on behalf of the environmental agencies. Knowing that, he said, it is "absolutely obscene" to expose infants to the compound. Legislation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are Plastic Baby Bottles Harmful? | 2/8/2008 | See Source »

While the research dealt with only one form of the learning disorder, the study’s authors wrote that their findings could have broader applications as a potential model for investigating other brain function disorders...

Author: By Clifford M. Marks, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Scrambled Brains Linked to Dyslexia | 2/7/2008 | See Source »

Employing cutting-edge imaging techniques, the study investigated the altered brain structure for those who suffer of dyslexia, a learning disability that hinders reading comprehension.The researchers focused on a genetic mutation of developmental dyslexia and found the organization of nervous tissue scrambled, with support cells underdeveloped and often unable to fully assist nerve cells...

Author: By Clifford M. Marks, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Scrambled Brains Linked to Dyslexia | 2/7/2008 | See Source »

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