Word: brained
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Like many drugs that affect the nervous system, nicotine at once stimulates and relaxes the body. Because it is inhaled, it takes only seven to ten seconds to reach the brain -- twice as fast as intravenous drugs and three times faster than alcohol. Once there, it mimics some of the actions of adrenaline, a hormone, and acetylcholine, a powerful neurotransmitter that touches off the brain's alarm system, among other things. After a few puffs, the level of nicotine in the blood skyrockets, the heart beats faster and blood pressure increases. Result: smokers become more alert and may actually even...
...they probe the intricate workings of the immune system, scientists are awestruck. "It is an enormous edifice, like a cathedral," says Nobel Laureate Baruj Benacerraf, president of Boston's Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. The immune system is compared favorably with the most complex organ of them all, the brain. "The immune system has a phenomenal ability for dealing with information, for learning and memory, for creating and storing and using information," explains Immunologist William Paul of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Declares Dr. Stephen Sherwin, director of clinical research at Genentech: "It's an incredible system. It recognizes molecules...
...President Derek Bok's words -- has been controversial. To the tweedy professors at the university who like their professions traditional and their academics pure, the new training ground smacks of a trade school for bloodless bureaucrats. To those who think governing emanates as much from the heart as the brain, the Kennedy School is, like Dukakis, too systematic and process-oriented. It is politics for non- emoters comfortable with decision trees and regression analyses...
...Khoshbin, who taught Currier 127, "Disorders of the Brain and Behavior," the seminars exemplify one of the few ways the house system fulfills its original intellectual mission. Meeting with tutors in the communal environment of a residential house "increases the collegiate aspect of the course," he says...
Khoshbin, who has taught painting, drawing, and calligraphy at Currier House in addition to his seminar, says his course attempted to integrate art and science by studying the links between the brain and creativity. His course on disorders of the brain is designed to give all students a good conceptual background in both arts and sciences, as is the Core, he says...