Word: frontal
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...deprivation early in life has a similar effect. For six years University of Washington psychologist Geraldine Dawson and her colleagues have monitored the brain-wave patterns of children born to mothers who were diagnosed as suffering from depression. As infants, these children showed markedly reduced activity in the left frontal lobe, an area of the brain that serves as a center for joy and other lighthearted emotions. Even more telling, the patterns of brain activity displayed by these children closely tracked the ups and downs of their mother's depression. At the age of three, children whose mothers were more...
...late to repair the damage wrought by physical and emotional abuse or neglect? For a time, at least, a child's brain is extremely forgiving. If a mother snaps out of her depression before her child is a year old, Dawson has found, brain activity in the left frontal lobe quickly picks up. However, the ability to rebound declines markedly as a child grows older. Many scientists believe that in the first few years of childhood there are a number of critical or sensitive periods, or "windows," when the brain demands certain types of input in order to create...
Green, who says he's running this time because "there's too little flagrant frontal nudity and sales of crack pipes are drastically low " is the candidate who doesn't take things too seriously in a field of candidate who spend hours planning strategy sessions, postering and making speeches...
Hussain said he was impressed with the set, which features The All-Mighty brain, an eight-foot sphere of palpitating grey matter with a video screen conveniently located in its frontal lobe...
...Sunday's presidential debate, Bob Dole is likely to demand that Clinton rule out any pardons. But a frontal attack on Hillary could make the G.O.P. look like a gang of male chauvinists beating up on a woman who dares to be independent and powerful. They can only hope the media keep the Whitewater issue alive. Hillary's inaccessibility to probing journalists does not make that easy...