Gabrielle Giffords suffers from a massive attack to her brain and physiology having been shot in the head. The human body is amazing in how it compensates for injuries, especially with the aid of modern medicine....
In my experience, when one body part fails, another tries to compensate when it can and that goes for eyes, ears, and kidneys for that matter. Wherever there are two of something, in my observation.From my book,...
"Our homes are full of plastic, and the kitchen is no exception. The problem: Chemicals in plastic containers and other kitchenware may leach into the foods or drinks that they're holding. Scientific evidence suggests that some of these chemicals may be harmful to people,...
A study published in Nature Neuroscience and reported on CNN and Health.com, new study results have emerged concerning the link between eating high-fat, high-calorie foods and addiction. Three groups of lab...
created by Liz McKibbon | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 445 views | 1 recommendation | 0 comments
Learning and Playing a Musical Instrument Improves Reading Children who learn to play a musical instrument may have an advantage when it comes to reading. Professor Nina Kraus of Northwestern University in...
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Nap Boosts Brain Power When your boss tells you off for falling asleep on the job you can now tell them that in the long run it will boost efficiency! Scientists from the University of California at Berkeley have...
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A new study conducts alcohol may help people survive trauma to the head, and should perhaps be considered as a treatment method for patients with brain injuries in the future. The study, published in the Archives of Surgery, compared the outcome of patients who had been...
created by Annina Bergman | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 478 views | 2 recommendations | 0 comments
"Today, our President Obama has said he was going to address the Children of America. There is one group of America's who are concerned that this amounts to an political indoctrination of young persons in v various stages of there intellectual development. On...
" If you see this lady turning in clockwise you are using your right brain.If you see it the other way, you are using left brain.Some people do see both ways, but most people see it only one way.See if you can...
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If primitive war tactic is to destroy the children of your enemy, then Americans will be attacked from within when 75 million students return to school in September, –on time for the next 9/11 anniversary.With this dramatic opening comment, I'm hoping that a case of...
created by Maireid Sullivan | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 5700 views | 12 recommendations | 11 comments
" A detailed, functional artificial human brain can be built within the next 10 years, a leading scientist has claimed. Henry Markram, director of the Blue Brain Project, has already simulated elements of a rat...
opinion by Babel-Fish | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 611 views | 38 recommendations | 9 comments
The capacity for the human brain to adapt still causes amazement and this story when we delve behind the lurid headline is such an example. Born with only one hemisphere of a brain this girl's brain appears to...
created by Paul Conneally | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 715 views | 61 recommendations | 5 comments
Pinpointing the genes involved in human brain cancer can be like looking for a needle in a haystack, and sometimes the needle you find may not be the right one. By comparing human and canine genomes, researchers at North Carolina State University have discovered that a gene...
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"Press Trust of India, Sunday July 5, 2009, London " " Michael Jackson will be buried without his brain in a private ceremony on Tuesday by his family. The pop star, 50, died after a suspected cardiac arrest on Tuesday but the circumstances around his death...
opinion by archita | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 703 views | 5 recommendations | 5 comments