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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.two...
Lake denies he cut his old friend out of the foreign policy brain trust, saying he had left town when the spoils of election victory were being divided. But the friendship seemed severed and now, with Lake serving as top foreign policy adviser to Barack Obama and Holbrooke a front runner for Secretary of State under Hillary Clinton, the two men find themselves in one of the most high-stakes competitions of their careers...
...Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, a former Democratic presidential candidate, had his brain picked by Institute of Politics fellow David Yepsen and members of the Harvard community yesterday afternoon, answering questions on issues ranging from why he supports Senator Barack Obama to U.S. policy toward dictators. Yepsen, a columnist for The Des Moines Register, hosted Richardson as part of his study group on “Picking Presidents,” which was moved from its usual location to accommodate the larger crowd. Richardson arrived over a half hour late for the talk, slated to start at noon, and quickly told...
Entity is the third panel in a triptych of pieces examining the relationship between the brain and the creative processes involved in dance. In 2002, McGregor's fascination with this topic led him to set up a research project entitled Choreography and Cognition with a team of five neuroscientists; the project was backed by a fellowship at the Department of Experimental Psychology at Cambridge University. The first product of this research was AtaXia (2004), named after the disabling physical condition. Partly inspired by a real ataxia sufferer, the piece examined the frailty of the brain-body connection. By forcing breakdowns...
...neurotic, the steely calligraphy of the limbs. Few choreographers make more extreme physical and mental demands on their dancers. "He likes brave people who have a willingness to try, and aren't precious," says Royal Ballet principal Edward Watson, who performed in Chroma. "Afterward you feel like your brain's been rewired." Jessica Wright, a dancer with Random, knows this sensation well: "Some of the work is mind-boggling. I love it. He's asking us to be thinking dancers, not just bodies...