Word: braining
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This gave scientists a target on which to focus their research. They began scanning that part of the brain with MRI technology, which uses subtle magnetic changes to capture the internal structure of organs in exquisite detail. To their surprise, they discovered that there was on average 39% to 48% less brain tissue in the affected region of depressed patients. Drevets speculates that the deficit may result from the catastrophic loss of a particular subset of brain cells, which his co-workers are trying to identify...
...moment there's no way doctors can use the new research to identify people at risk of mental illness. There is just too much normal variation in the sizes of the structures within the brain. But this latest finding should help researchers understand exactly what goes wrong when the brain is overwhelmed by hopelessness and, perhaps one day, help prevent the millions of Americans who may have inherited a propensity to depression from falling into the downward spiral of despair...
...killer headache may actually kill. Middle-age migraine sufferers may have twice the risk of STROKE compared with their headache-free peers--even when there's no other predisposing factor, like hypertension or smoking. Why? Researchers suspect that the same brain chemicals may be at work in both migraine and stroke...
When one of our babies woke up before dawn, did I recite The Canterbury Tales to her in a way that stimulated the bejesus out of her brain circuitry, or did I just mutter unintelligibly, "Where the hell did she throw the bottle now?" At this point, it isn't even easy to remember precisely what I said to my kids when they were teenagers. Just last month I got in touch with both of my daughters to make sure we'd remembered to tell them not to join any cults...
...important to try to remember what I said in those first months. One scientific report quoted at the White House Conference on Early Childhood Development and Learning concluded that brain synapses--connections between brain cells--are formed before the age of 3, and that those unformed by then are eliminated. As I interpreted that finding, my daughters could be walking around with less than their fair share of brain synapses simply because I was too tired some nights to manage at least a simple "Hiya, kid. What...