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Moreover, it's not the magnetic pulses that affect the brain but the modest electrical currents that the pulses induce--almost like an echo--in the brain's nerve cells. At some frequencies, those electrical currents seem to stimulate neural pathways but at other frequencies inhibit them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Resetting the Brain | 3/14/2005 | See Source »

...small molecule could be induced to bind to that pocket, it would inhibit the shape transformation the virus would need to undergo in order to infect target cells...

Author: By Evelyn Lilly, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: HIV Research Solves Structure | 2/28/2005 | See Source »

...would hope that there would be a condemnation of those who seek to condemn [Summers],” Wisse said. “I think the direst thing that one could do on campus would be to inhibit speech...

Author: By William C. Marra, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Summers, Faculty Brace for Meeting | 2/22/2005 | See Source »

...Drink Machine Blocker: The drink machines are laid out in a horizontal fashion for a reason, and it’s not just so that midgets can still reach them. When confronted with a drink machine, the Drink Machine Blocker always seeks to stand in the position that will inhibit the greatest possible number of people from reaching the machine. Usually this is a center position with arms spread, which is bad enough, but in certain situations Drink Machine Blockers become even more deadly. I’ve witnessed DMBs fill up their cup partway, take a long, slow, drink...

Author: By Andrew L. Kreicher, THE CRIMSON STAFF | Title: Cardinal Sins of the Dining Hall | 2/7/2005 | See Source »

...Adding to the concerns about antidepressant use, a Dutch report in the Archives of Internal Medicine highlighted another problem with the pills: abnormal bleeding. Patients taking drugs that strongly inhibit reuptake of serotonin-a neurotransmitter that aids both mood and blood clotting-were at least twice as likely to be hospitalized for bleeding in the brain, uterus and other sites than patients taking weaker drugs. So-called SSRIs, including Prozac and Paxil, were among the strongest drugs. The risk is small, however, and most serious for patients already at elevated risk for bleeding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Your Health | 1/16/2005 | See Source »

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