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Stephen A. Benton, a pioneer of holography whose discoveries are now commonly used to protect against credit card fraud, died of brain cancer Nov. 9 at Massachusetts General Hospital...
...been 50 years since we discovered that the human brain does not lie dormant at night, but instead cycles through organized, discrete sleep stages. Yet we are only now getting close to understanding the function, or functions, of sleep. This evolving understanding, particularly of the interaction of sleep with learning and memory, holds important insights for students—and even for educators...
...singing birds and flowers in Disneyland's Enchanted Tiki Room that opened in 1963), Lucky wanders on his own, untethered by any wires and cables. He can laugh, sneeze, smile, yell and sign autographs, and once in a while, he gets the hiccups. What's his secret? His brain resides not in that cute little head of his but in the flower cart he's pulling behind him. INVENTOR Walt Disney Imagineering AVAILABILITY Currently being play-tested TO LEARN MORE disneyland.com
...doctors initially thought. Four months and four brain operations later, Big is in a coma in a Bangkok hospital. The odds are that he will die?not from injuries sustained in the car crash but from an infection by a lethal fungus that blooms in Bangkok's klongs. The fungus entered Big's bloodstream when his heart stopped and his lungs filled with water. Undetected, it attacked blood vessels in Big's brain, causing a massive hemorrhage two weeks after the crash...
...mental disorders may be misunderstood, seen as frightening, belittled or treated as a moral taint rather than an illness. Such stigmatizing attitudes are entirely wrong. Modern science makes it quite clear that depression, anxiety disorders, eating disorders, ADHD, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and other mental disorders are diseases of the brain. Just like diabetes or heart disease, mental disorders have their roots in the interaction of genetic and non-genetic risk factors. Just like these other medical disorders, the symptoms reflect abnormal physiology—in the case of mental disorders, abnormal physiology of the brain. Just like diabetes or heart...