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...more moments, he delayed facing his awesome responsibility. Then he sighed and removed the neural-input cap that fitted snugly over his skull and had enabled him to call up his distant past. Like all spacers, Captain Singh belonged to the "Bald Is Beautiful" school, if only because wigs were a nuisance in zero gravity. The social historians were still staggered by the fact that one invention, the portable "Brainman," could make bare heads the norm within a single decade. Not even quick-change skin coloring, or the lens- corrective laser shaping which had abolished eyeglasses, had made such...
Last February the FDA rejected as premature applications by vitamin makers to promote folic acid as a means of preventing neural-tube birth defects, antioxidants as a hedge against cancer, and zinc as a booster of aging immune systems. Both federal and state regulatory agencies have been cracking down on nutrient health claims. The FDA says it will hold label claims to standards similar to those applied to drugs. Advises Dr. Walter Willett of the Harvard School of Public Health: "At this time I say don't take megadoses, but I'm not ruling out that in two or three...
Disease, alcoholism or an injury to the brain can prevent an experience from being imprinted into the neural network. The Central Park jogger has no memory of being attacked, say neurologists, not because she repressed the event but because her injured brain never had a chance to physically create the memory...
...research conducted by Kirby and her co-workers, which involves animal rather than human subjects, they are trying to find out how stress hormones, such as the neural hormone norepinephrine, released from nerve endings in response to certain stimuli, affect the functioning of the heart...
...Having your neural connections work this early in the morning" is extremely difficult, says Daniels...