Word: braining
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...said the sanctions are destroying Iraq'seducated middle class. According to Halliday,there is a severe "brain-drain" within Iraq as amajority of the country's educated elite has fledoverseas...
...Part of Your Brain...
...based upon trying to be a detective when you're reading the book, but trying to really understand what you're reading," says Anand Acharya '99, who is taking the course this semester. "It's like using a whole new part of your brain that hasn't gotten any use at Harvard...
Doctors used to think eating disorders were purely psychological. Now they realize there's some wayward biology as well. In a study published in the Archives of General Psychiatry this month, researchers found abnormal levels of serotonin, a neurotransmitter in the brain, in women who had been free of bulimia for at least a year. That may help explain why drugs like Prozac and Zoloft, which affect serotonin, have allowed a lot of bulimics to stop bingeing. Unfortunately, the pills don't work as well for anorexia. Nor do they offer a simple one-stop cure. Health-care workers must...
...healed by the knowledge of trained physicians and nurses, by drugs discovered and developed by scientists and by each individual's own immune system. If the body is strengthened by the belief in recovery, that does not prove the efficacy of prayer; it proves the power of the brain and its connection with all other parts of the body. VICTORIA D. MCCOY Glen Haven, Colo...