Word: performing
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...night went much better than I expected. While the video looked flawless, my daughters quickly lost interest in thirtysomething's nattering, self-obsessed yuppies and started to think about other tricks the Optoma could perform. Soon we had YouTube up there, and at about the time my beloved slunk off to bed, I screened my idea of a family movie: The Big Lebowski. Even Otto woke up for that...
...bringing PJ into focus. These were the two who had been last standing at Georgia State the weekend before. These were the two whom all the excitement was about. The best Harvard has seen in years. And there was no way I was going to get to see them perform, not after the fiasco of the last reporter to cling along for a tournament...
...band does hope to stick together, using school breaks and summer vacation to practice and perform...
Janigro wanted to perform similar studies on motor centers deep within the brain. Because music is often associated with movement - like tapping one's feet - he theorized that music could be used to modify the activity of thalamic and subthalamic neurons, which are located in the same area where a neuronal pacemaker is implanted during deep-brain stimulation...
...decreased the activity of individual neurons in the deep brain, says Janigro, adding that the physical responses to the calming music ranged from patients' closing their eyes to falling asleep. Some patients even settled into a nice round of snoring. And when lead neurosurgeon Ali Rezai needed patients to perform an action, such as lifting a limb, during the procedures, he simply removed their earphones and relayed instructions. Once the music resumed, patients returned to their snoozing...