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...laboratories will serve as a magnet to attract additional donor funding for a potential Institute for Aging Research at Harvard, according to a statement released by the Medical School...

Author: By May Habib, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Alum To Fund Aging Study | 3/15/2005 | See Source »

...been to psychiatrists and psychologists and tried dozens of medications, but nothing seemed to work very well or for very long. Then last June she heard about an experimental treatment being tested at the New York State Psychiatric Institute at Columbia University. It involved aiming a powerful magnet at a spot on the brain to reset the wayward neural circuits that keep Martha, and millions like her, stuck in the downward spiral of depression...

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

...knows how long such a reset might last and whether aiming the magnet at a different part of the brain would work any better. But that hasn't stopped neurologists from trying rTMS on other conditions. For example, specialized MRI scans can pinpoint where stroke damage has occurred and what parts of the brain are trying to take over for the affected regions. Could the right combination of stimulation and inhibition help stroke victims overcome their disabilities...

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

...church that has suffered so many setbacks in recent years, it's hard to argue with such success. Southern dioceses like Charlotte not only boast some of the highest numbers of priestly ordinations in the U.S.; they're also a magnet for new clergy from the North. The current generation of U.S. Catholic seminarians, weaned on the strict dogma of Pope John Paul II, is more conservative than its predecessors who came of age in the 1960s and '70s in the wake of Vatican II. Many, like the new parochial vicar at St. Mark, the Rev. Timothy Reid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bible-Belt Catholics | 2/7/2005 | See Source »

...conventional. Viewers can see Koreeda's rigorously unsentimental film as a Spielberg lost-kids plot rendered in Japanese and in slow motion. And they can feast on the child actors, all of them unaffected and adorable. Yagira, with the smooth androgyny of an anime hero, is a real eye magnet; the camera, puppylike, practically licks his face. Yet this precocious thespian is a real kid. When he was finally handed his Best Actor trophy, he asked, "Can I take it home?" --By Richard Corliss

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Tough Kids | 1/23/2005 | See Source »

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