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...technique that sends an electrical current through the vagus nerve--a major conduit wiring the heart and intestines--which then delivers it to the brain. Another approach, called regional transcranial magnetic stimulation, uses an electric coil shaped like a figure eight to create a magnetic field inside the pre-frontal cortex, which plays a key role in mood regulation...
...smallest brain structures (for example, the brain's center for emotion, the amygdala, in yellow, is deeply buried but visible). Using MRIs, scientists have learned that the brains of schizophrenics, above right, are smaller than those of people without the disease, above left, and that they have smaller frontal lobes, the part of the brain responsible for planning, decision making, higher learning and emotions...
PUBERTY 10-13 yrs. Just before puberty, the brain's gray matter thickens, especially in the frontal lobe, the seat of planning, impulse control and reasoning. This growth may be triggered by surges of sex hormones...
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...results reinforce the idea that memory improvement during infancy is directly related to the development of the brain’s frontal lobe and hippocampus—parts of the brain responsible for memory retention and retrieval...