Word: braining
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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According to Burke-White, Krueger's parents chose to take their son off life-support yesterday afternoon when doctors told them he was clinically brain dead...
GABA, which binds to the GABAc receptor, is a major inhibitory substance in the brain. If GABA is impaired, the result is an over excitation of retinal cells, which could result in glaucoma...
...first nothing happened. My mood stayed bright. I slept. I concluded that I had a soul after all and that my moods weren't merely molecular. Then the inevitable slippage started. With plottable predictability, as if my brain were a slowly draining beaker, my sense of well-being sank and sank until I felt lower and darker than ever before. I went back to a doctor--a specialist this time--and asked flat out for Prozac, by then the subject of books and articles. One week later I felt fully restored and resigned myself to a humbling new self-image...
...MADELEINE NASH, our senior science correspondent, reported on the brain's chemical pathways for our cover story on serotonin, a complex substance that influences a wide range of emotion and behavior. She knows the routes well, having written a cover story on another brain chemical, dopamine, and its role in addiction. Last week she looked at the natural antidepressant St. John's wort. Nash brought her usual clear-sightedness to the murky workings of serotonin and the trial-and-error science that brought forth beneficial--and potentially deadly--serotonin-enhancing drugs such as fen/phen. Nash's work...
...BIRTH-WEIGHT BABIES Those with abnormalities suggestive of inner-brain white-matter injury have a much greater risk of suffering some childhood psychiatric disorders...