Brain Structures and Drugs
Psychoactive or behaviorally active drugs are substances that alter internal and external behavioral processes including activity levels, moods and feelings. As a result of ...
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Imaging Techniques: Visualizing the Living Brain
Images of the human BRAIN constructed using sophisticated computer systems have proven valuable for studying the effects of abused drugs. Nuclear medic...
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Imaging Techniques: Visualizing the Living Brain
Computer systems can construct images of the human brain. These noninvasive procedures are valuable for studying how abused drugs affect the brain.
Ima...
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Advances in Understanding Brain Behavior in Animals
Overview
Understanding the behavior of animals is essential to the work of scientists today. Animal models are used in many areas to study anatomy a...
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Brain
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...
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Synapse
Neurons give rise to processes known as dendrites and axons that form a complex network of interconnections throughout the brain at specialized sites called synapses. Around the turn of the ni...
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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 th...
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According to the biological perspective, all behaviour must have physiological basis and in order to understand human functioning and behaviour, one must focus on the basic physiological processes, wh...
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Hooray for your brain! Without it, you could not read these words right now! But where is your brain exactly, and what does it do? Use your brain to read this book and learn all about it!
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What can your brain do? Just about anything you want it to! Read this book to imagine all the fun adventures you can have when you "use your brain" to make them happen. This book allows for a wonde...
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Explore the brain and what it does for the human body including how it works to control body functions and its connection to the nervous system. Book includes vocabulary related to the brain and br...
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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.Testify...
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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 ...
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A South Korean boxer who fell into a coma after winning his WBO intercontinental flyweight title fight last week was declared dead early Thursday.Choi Yo-sam was declared dead after his internal or...
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An unusual study by doctors treating blast victims at a field hospital in Iraq has found that ruptured eardrums may help reveal which troops are at risk of hidden brain injury.The finding is import...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A few nights without sleep
can not only make people tired and emotional, but may actually
put the brain into a primitive "fight or flight" state,
researchers said Wednesday....
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As many as 20 percent of U.S. combat troops who fought in Iraq or Afghanistan leave with signs they may have had a concussion, and some do not realize they need treatment, Army officials said Thurs...
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A person's optimism in the future seems to be controlled by a small front part of the mid-brain, according to a study that used brain imaging.That area deep behind the eyes activates when people th...
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Before they leave for Iraq, thousands of troops with the 101st Airborne Division line up at laptop computers to take a test: basic math, matching numbers and symbols, and identifying patterns. They...
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One in 60 older people may be walking around with benign brain tumors and don't know it. Even more may have bulging blood vessels in the head that could burst. These results come from a surprising ...
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Brain Structures and Drugs
Imaging Techniques: Visualizing the Living Brain
Advances in Understanding Brain Behavior in Animals
Brain
Guide to the Anatomy of the Brain
Brain
Studying the Brain
The Human Body: Brain
Brain Barrier
