Word: brains
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...raised last month when a congressional-subcommittee hearing learned that DTP, a combination vaccine for diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis (whooping cough), is still on the market. As far back as 1994 the Institute of Medicine and the National Academy of Sciences warned that DTP was responsible for cases of brain inflammation and permanent brain damage. A safer version, called DtaP, is now recommended...
...just for the sake of argument, suppose raising IQ didn't require any permanent, expensive genetic engineering at all. Scientists are studying brain-boosting compounds. Suppose they found something as cheap and easy as aspirin; one pill and you wake up the next morning a little bit brighter. Who could argue with that...
...Stanford University neuropsychiatrist Dr. Robert Malenka. "But there's a great adaptive value to being able to forget things. If your memory improves too much, you might not be a happier person. I'm thinking of rape victims and soldiers coming back from war. There's a reason the brain has evolved to forget certain things...
...protein that can facilitate communication between neurons. Since one popular theory of memory relates this primary mental capacity to an organism's ability to make associations--say, between a bee's buzz and the pain of its bite--this enhanced communication might promote the recording of associations within the brain, thus creating memories...
HELMETS ON! Talk about headaches. Researchers have yet to prove it in humans, but a blow to the head of a pig may result in an injury that triggers brain lesions in the porcine brain that are remarkably similar to what's seen in human Alzheimer's patients. Though the findings are preliminary, they send a clear message: Watch out for speeding balls, swinging racquets and flying hockey pucks--and always wear a helmet when you ride a bike...