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Other cryonics companies have offered euphemistically titled "neuro-suspensions" as a low cost alternative to full-body preservations. Neuro-suspensions, of course, involve the freezing of the patient's head only, and discarding their worn-out body in the hopes that future generations will provide them with such materialistic triflings gratis. Either way you choose, the real problem you face is the freezing procedure itself. Even with the heavy perfusion of anti-freeze into your system, your body is still mostly water, and each polar water molecule is just waiting to partner up with its nearest neighbor in a nice...
Bennett, a Pforzheimer House resident, is a Cognative Neuro-Science major and is currently working on a thesis which deals with why certain songs become stuck in people's heads more easily than others...
...treatments will fail clinical trials. But doctors who treat the disease are experiencing a surge of optimism the likes of which they have never felt before. "It's no longer spin the wheel, let's try this drug, maybe it will work," says Henry Friedman, a neuro-oncologist at Duke University Medical Center. "We're going to know why a drug is or isn't working." And given the nature of cancer and the scientists who study it, if one approach doesn't fly, there will be no shortage of other ideas...
...treatments will fail clinical trials. But doctors who treat the disease are experiencing a surge of optimism the likes of which they have never seen. "It’s no longer spin the wheel, let’s try this drug, maybe it will work," says Henry Friedman, a neuro-oncologist at Duke University Medical Center. "We’re going to know why a drug is or isn’t working." And given the nature of cancer and the scientists who study it, if one approach doesn’t fly, there’ll be no shortage of crazy ideas to replace...
Finding my role as a neuro- or cogneuro- scientist, I'm trying to sort out not only what it means to think, but from what vantage point I can investigate thinking in the most clear-sighted--or should I say clear-minded--way. This is not an effort very different from that of Nicodemus and his heroic troops. The rats of NIMH caution us that it is sometimes in the search for what makes us greatest--in this case, civilization and wisdom--that we become more estranged rather than closer to what makes...