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...trying to connect the familiar patterns of adolescents' wacky behavior to the new findings about their evolving brain structure. It's not always easy to do. "In all likelihood, the behavior is changing because the brain is changing," he says. "But that is still a bit of a leap." A critical tool in making that leap is functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). While ordinary MRI reveals brain structure, fMRI actually shows brain activity while subjects are doing assigned tasks...
What's A Parent To Do? Brain scientists tend to be reluctant to make the leap from the laboratory to real-life, hard-core teenagers. Some feel a little burned by the way earlier neurological discoveries resulted in Baby Einstein tapes and other marketing schemes that misapplied their science. It is clear, however, that there are implications in the new research for parents, educators and lawmakers...
...flashlight's illumination of a tropical rainforest - brief and finite - but our capacity for destruction is limitless. Finally, our guide's passing beam catches the shining eyes of an indri in the night, reflecting back at us. It holds the light for a moment, and then, with a leap, it's gone...
...said he hopes to make the leap to working with human specimens in order to test whether iPS cells may serve as a substitute for embryonic stem cells...
...forces deployed to uphold and enforce these developments on a community level—will do more to build the Afghani government and foster morale than bombs ever could. While in this case an increased military presence may be the best solution possible, we must be careful not to leap to the conclusion that additional troops and war are always the answer. The current political climate seems to glorify military might and offer a pick of poisons: if not support for Iraq, then increased focus on Afghanistan. As voters in countries like Canada, Britain, and France have made clear, being...