Word: graying
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...wasn't David's brain that woke him up to say goodbye that Friday. His brain had already been destroyed. Tumor metastases don't simply occupy space and press on things, leaving a whole brain. The metastases actually replace tissue. Where that gray stuff grows, the brain is just not there...
...back inside a brain-scanning machine. She's one of the first participants in a research project designed by Lisa Aziz-Zadeh, a neuroscientist at U.S.C.'s Brain and Creativity Institute, to test an intriguing question at the heart of a new field of brain research: Do areas of gray matter respond to the emotional contours of speech produced by others in the same way they do when we ourselves are speaking...
When the scientists compared the TMS data on the two groups--those who actually tickled the ivories and those who only imagined doing so--they glimpsed a revolutionary idea about the brain: the ability of mere thought to alter the physical structure and function of our gray matter. For what the TMS revealed was that the region of motor cortex that controls the piano-playing fingers also expanded in the brains of volunteers who imagined playing the music--just as it had in those who actually played...
With influential backers like former Princeton President William G. Bowen and former Harvard Corporation member Hanna H. Gray, the personable chemist may be asked to pull off the task again...
Former chiefs of other colleges—including Gray, who led the University of Chicago before joining Harvard’s board, and former Princeton President Bowen—are telling search committee members that Cech would be the right man to head Harvard in the wake of the Summers-Faculty fight, according to an individual familiar with the conversations...