Brain Part of the central nervous system located in the skull. Controls mental and physical actions of the organism. The brain, with the spinal cord and network of nerves, controls information flow throughout the body, voluntary actions, such as...

With its hundreds of billions of interconnectednerve cells, or neurons, continuously transmitting electrochemical signals to each other, the human brain is the most complex object yet discovered. Fortunately, our understanding of the brain has been...

Computer systems can construct images of the human brain. These noninvasive procedures are valuable for studying how abused drugs affect the brain. Imaging techniques that use nuclear medicine (radiation) are positron emission tomography (PET) and...

‘Brain’ and ‘CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM’ are not synonyms. The brain is one part of the central nervous system; the other component is the SPINAL CORD. The brains of all VERTEBRATES appear to be built to a common plan (see...

In animals, the brain (enkephale) (Greek for "in the skull"), is the control center of the central nervous system, responsible for behavior. The brain is located in the head, protected by the skull and close to the primary sensory apparatus of vision,...

Your brain is probably THE most amazing part of your body. It acts as a command centre for everything you do, think, sense and say. There is nothing you do that doesn't involve brain-power! That mass of wrinkly looking pinky-grey stuff you...

BRAIN * Dennis Brain (hn); Malcolm Sargent, cond;1 BBC SO;1,3 John Hollingsworth, cond;3 Peter Pears (ten);3 Benjamin Britten (pn);4 Dennis Brain Wind Ens2,5,6 * BBC LEGENDS 4192 (73:36) * Live: London 7/30/1953;1,3 6/19/1956;2,5 Aldeburgh 6/21/1956;4 Edinburgh 8/24/19576 MOZART Horn Concerto No. 3.1 Divertimento...

Immigration: As Bill Gates implied last week, America has it all backward. Our country's doors are open to the low-skilled while we keep out the talent that's crucial to our competitiveness.Testifying Wednesday before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, Microsoft's chairman made...

As people age, their brains shrink. Cognitive and motor functions deteriorate; links between neurons weaken.This leads to poor attention span, weak memory skills and difficulty multitasking.People in their 40s and 50s who take care of their health, their blood pressure and their weight can reduce...

Methods of studying the brain according to the biological perspective of psychology.