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One of the cardinal features of addiction is how long-lived it is, ... A key question in the field has been: By what mechanisms do drugs of abuse cause changes in the brain that last this long?

One of the most striking findings was how it affected function in the area of the brain that creates everyday working memory. We may not have conclusive proof. But the evidence is strong. And these are all healthy choices for other reasons.

One of the hallmarks of the human brain is the extent to which cortical, cognitive, namely prefrontal areas can influence and control behavior, and these areas are the last to develop and perhaps never cease doing so.

I was surprised that the relationship between intelligence and brain structure changed so much as a child grows up. In early childhood, the smartest children had a thinner cortex -- this is the opposite of what you'd expect. By late childhood, the pattern had changed completely.

If we're given a number of circumstances to deal with, the brain goes into this mode of trying to find a solution, and it's amazing how good we are at it.

I got the distinct impression Warne was the pseudo-captain during the fifth Test. There is no doubt Warne has an amazing cricket brain - but not only that, any cricket he plays is full of passion, (courage) and determination.

If we can get this guy's brain to work with his body, he'll be special for a long time.

I don't know where my brain was. Somewhere it never was before. Well, I'm back from outer space.

I am alarmed by reports that data brokers are obtaining and selling customers' personal telephone records without the customers' consent or knowledge. These records can include some of the most private personal information about an individual. Finding out who people are calling and for how long can be like picking someone's brain about their friends, plans or business dealings.

I am hopeful that the scientific research done at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research can make significant contributions to advancing human learning and communication within the next 20 years,

Catching the ball with a fatigued brain, you don't really understand. When your brain gets tired, you don't really know what to do with the ball. And you kind of travel or take a bad shot, or just lose the ball. That hasn't happened a lot this year.

Carbohydrates, whether derived from gluten-containing foods or other sources, including fruit, sweetened beverages, and starchy vegetables, are dangerous as they relate to brain health in and of themselves.

But the relationship was not as strong. But the point is, in women, whether it was verbal or non-verbal intelligence, brain size was positively correlated -- that means the bigger the brain, the better they did.

Based on this new research, if just one infected cow entered the US feed supply and the brain and spinal cord of that animal were maximally dispersed in feed, it could potentially infect 45,000 other cows. That's why we have to be extremely vigilant about keeping any infected animal material out of feed and food.

Based on this new research, if just one infected cow entered the U.S. feed supply and the brain and spinal cord of that animal were maximally dispersed in feed, it could potentially infect 45,000 other cows. That's why we have to be extremely vigilant about keeping any infected animal material out of feed and food.

Based on past studies, we expected greater activation in the frontal and parietal regions in the older adults, especially when top-down attention was required. We also hypothesized that an age-related related decline in the white matter integrity in the frontal part of the brain would correlate with changes in gray matter activation.

Basically, Louisiana has been a poster child for brain drain, especially whites with college degrees,

Because they hadn't had a line in, they had to scramble around and get a line placed, and by then, unfortunately, he suffered major brain damage.

I'm a private person by nature. I live in my brain half the time, not the world, and I'm not a natural negotiator. But I've learned to negotiate.

Imagine you break off your blood supply to the brain. Part of that brain gets no blood supply at all. It scars up and dies.

I have a business brain so we work very well together.

I can't say it to you any plainer than I've already said it. I'm not making a change, guys. We're going to continue on the strategy. I believe in the plan. I believe in the strategy. I believe in the guys that are executing it. Maybe some people think I'm brain dead because of that and the record. But you know what? Time will tell.

I found it tremendously humiliating to be there because most of the kids there were brain dead or psychotic.

Fund companies are increasingly looking at this as a retention tool. Perhaps its one way to keep your fund manager on board. I don't know if it's a full blown turning point, but companies realize it could be a brain drain so they're taking steps to stay competitive.

From thy eyes, thy nostrils, ears, and chin--the disease which is seated in thy head--from thy brain and tongue I do tear it out.

I don't think you have to be a brain surgeon to know you want to play your games where you practice. We're really not going to play a home game anywhere but this would be the closest thing.

I don't think it takes the brain of a rocket scientist to figure out that they had more jump than we did. We didn't have any kind of work ethic that they did. You have to start off with a guy like myself . . . and it goes right down the line.

I don't think it takes a brain surgeon to figure out why a lot of people are getting hurt. I believe it's in the best interests of the game for them to come up with an off-season to give us time to recover. You can't play if your body won't allow you. A solution needs to be found.

For the year before I was arrested, I was told to shut up, and I did. I don't know any more about criminal law than I do about brain surgery, so I did what I was told for a year -- while everybody said whatever they wanted to say about me, in the press, the media, on the streets, anywhere,

Forties are good! I'm thinking with my brain now, which is a lot more clear, and women seem to appreciate that. It's a wonderful decade where you're in control of yourself but the women are still interested.

If (the bleeding) was on the left side of the brain, it will undoubtedly involve his speech and comprehension. If it was on the right side of the brain then it's possible he could emerge from this with the ability to converse and make some decisions. At a minimum, he's going to be terribly incapacitated with at least a paralysis on one side of the body.

He understands not only with his brain but with his heart. And that might be called love. Not quite sure, but maybe that's the key.

He has a great football brain and if he falls out with Carlton we are here.

He has a good foot for kicking, but he doesn't have a good brain for talking,

He has a gift, man. A physical and mental gift. To be able to do all those different strokes, obviously his brain functions differently from most people's.

He had brain cramps. He was a spectator. It didn't hurt us tonight, but it will hurt you another time you do it. The Mets are struggling and they didn't take advantage of things.

He had brain cramps, ... He was a spectator. It didn't hurt us tonight, but it will hurt you another time you do it. The Mets are struggling and they didn't take advantage of things.

He has been very interested in investigating the brain function of monks who have practiced for many, many years, to investigate how their brain function might have been changed by their practice,

He is incredibly cool. Not emotional, no mistakes, always thinking. I always believed the brain is important in any business, including driving the car.

He is in a wheelchair because some of the nerves in the brain have been damaged. He has had learned to talk, hold his head up and everything again.

He is badly beaten up. It took 24 hours for his brain to recuperate and for his thought processes to announce it was the closest to death he knew of.

He is moving and responding to stimuli and the things that we're doing. It means that he has brain function, central nervous system function if he responds to stimuli. That's good.

He has some difficulty reading. Over the past couple of months I've learned how complicated the human brain is. Where most people take for granted their ability to put together whole sentences or convey their thoughts into words, Drew is having some difficulty with. He can speak. He just has difficulty at times expressing in words what it is he wants to say.

He had a good 24 hours, ... Doctors said the swelling in his brain did go down. They wouldn't go so far as to say he is out of danger, but they are now more optimistic.

We can do immediate neurosurgical head trauma. If your brain is swelling from bleeding, you don't have a whole lot of time. You cannot wait to go to Germany.

There is no evidence that the tongue is connected to the brain

The people, they relate to me. In my life, I've had a lot of heartache. I lost friends after my brain injury.

We've been very focused on curing brain cancer, which we now do in about 68 percent of the kids,

We've found another part of the story - the mechanism in the brain that builds up sleep pressure is working at a different rate in adolescents than in pre-pubescent children.

Have you ever held a snake? They are so strong. You can see why there are so many myths about them: they are unlike any other creature. It's extraordinary how that little brain can keep everything moving in different directions.

Having this inaugural event at MIS is a testimony to those living with brain injuries. I am truly appreciative of the support everyone has shown - especially those who have registered to walk and the sponsors who have joined me in this mission.

He's a great champion. I love picking his brain about what he was thinking when he was winning all those tournaments.

He's a good guy to pick his brain a little bit. It's great to be by his side and talk to him and learn from him and watch his work habits.

Her severe brain injury has caused a lack of verbal communication along with visual and perceptual impairments, ... But she still seems determined to get back to where she was.

God made man stronger but not necessarily more intelligent. He gave women intuition and femininity. And, used properly, that combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.

There's something wrong with my brain, it doesn't work properly! I can hear the same pitch in both ears, whereas for most people, if you listen to one pitch in one ear, it's slightly different in the other. That's how your brain works out direction.

If you hear a C-major chord with an equal temperament, you've heard it a million times before and your brain accepts it. But if you hear a chord that you've never heard before, you're like, "huh."

Because I've been making music and releasing it for so long, I've got that production-line thing in my brain: I can't do anything new until the last one's out.

Forget all the equipment, forget the music, at the end of the day it's just literally frequencies and their effects on your brain. That's what's everyone's essentially after.

When you get new rules that work, you're changing the physiology of your brain. And then your brain has to reconfigure itself in order to deal with it.

We make it, so you don't have to fry your brain doing it.

Humans do a rough categorization of objects very quickly. For instance, in just a tenth of a second, we can recognize whether something we see is an animal or not. Our results show that this immediate, rough impression probably depends on recognizing just one or more individual parts of what we see. Fine discriminations such as recognizing individual faces take longer to happen, and our study suggests that this delay depends upon emerging signals for combinations of shape fragments. In a sense, the brain has to construct an internal representation of an object from disparate pieces.

He didn't want to overwhelm me with a bunch of stuff, ... But I picked his brain and said, 'I don't care if you overwhelm me. I've got a lot of stuff to work on and the last month and all off-season to work on it and want to get right.'

He likes this track and he's got guts. That's probably the best thing about him he's gritty. He's just a real easy horse to take care of; you couldn't ask for a better horse to be around. I'm not a brain surgeon; anyone could train this guy. He does it all himself. I'm very lucky to have him.

Knowing that neurons are able to grow in the adult brain gives us a chance to enhance the process and explore under what conditions -- genetic, sensory or other -- we can make that happen.

Knowing more about the process and about the precise areas of the brain that are affected will give us options for exploring future therapies.

Just sitting on a room and taking a test like that, you don't know what to expect. It picks your brain apart.

Joe Kay isn't half as quick of feet or brain as the old one,

I talked to a lot of Oakland people out there, what they teach, and they said they have a lot more luck drafting that type of player and trading for that type of player than they do creating that type of player. I think it's just the way your brain works. It's very hard to teach.

It appears that SSRI antidepressants rewire areas of the brain that are important for thinking and feeling, as well as operating the autonomic nervous system.

It always nagged me. I played almost every game hurt. I couldn't do anything about it. I just studied film more and it forced me to use my brain more.

I think the brain didn't quite communicate with the same confidence to where I thought I actually hit it. Normally when I hit a putt, I make it. Once you get them near the hole you just have to roll them in.

I was a little bit skeptical because this kid was only weeks removed from having his brain opened up. I asked his father, Earl, and he said the doctors were OK with it, and I double-checked with the doctors.

It is probably too early for us to tell what that means, but it is very important to us that he has a lot of brain activity.

I thought our guys played well. It was a young group. When you throw a young group against a veteran group, you may be able to win a game like that. A veteran group is going to use their brain a little bit, and that's what they did.

I think as they all get a little more comfortable, I think they'll all start picking my brain a bit. I'm open to all that.

I think it's one of the most devastating diseases on the planet. It robs you of the person one memory, one moment, one brain cell at a time.

I think watching him (Peter) win was as exciting as watching the Red Sox win the World Series. He has the engine and strength to accomplish whatever his brain wishes to do. It's not easy to do what he does, but he can do it all out there.

I think that we are maybe a little further ahead of where we thought we were. Apart from Pat Noonan, I didn't really see anybody breaking down fitness-wise. The first thing that goes is the legs and then the brain but we didn't really see that.

I think ''taste'' is a social concept and not an artistic one. I'm willing to show good taste, if I can, in somebody else's living room, but our reading life is too short for a writer to be in any way polite. Since his words enter into another's brain in silence and intimacy, he should be as honest and explicit as we are with ourselves.

I think that, with some notable exceptions, the community of scientists was excessively optimistic about how quickly imaging would have an impact on psychiatry. In their enthusiasm, people forgot that the human brain is the most complex object in the history of human inquiry, and it's not at all easy to see what's going wrong.

It is known that the brain shrinks over the course of a person's life, although the exact trajectory is not well understood, and there are huge individual differences.

I went to see 'The Piano' with Holly Hunter when I was in a Paula Vogel play, and I was just gone. I couldn't focus at all. It took that creative part of my brain with it so absolutely.

It is a scientifically proven fact that eating a variety of flavors over-stimulates the appetite. Why do you think food companies put so many ingredients in their products? The Flavor Point is the point when the flavors in your food fill up the appetite center in your brain and you no longer feel hungry.

I remind them of a few games that got away from us and the mistakes we made in those games. I remind them of the three years we worked to get to this point and the sacrifices they made over the summers and everything the team and the community did for us and we don't want to have brain freezes once we get out there. They have never backed down from a challenge since I've been there.

Open source is not free. You may not have to pay for the code, but it doesn't free you from having to exercise your brain and do whatever integration is required. If you don't think about maintenance, operation and integration costs, you may put zero dollars in your budget for an open-source project and then wonder why you're eating through money so quickly.

Over the past few years, neuroscientists have made the quite revolutionary discovery that at all ages the brain is plastic or flexible - that's to say it's shaped by experience, what we do and how we think.

Our study provides insight into how chronic stress triggers changes in the brain that are much more long-lived than the effects of existing antidepressants.

Our findings do not support these beliefs. In the present study, we found no relationship between brain shrinkage and education level.

Our bodies are hanging along for the ride, but my brain is talking to your brain. And if we want to understand who we are and how we feel and perceive, we really understand what brains are.

Our ability to see is one of the great evolutionary accomplishments of the human brain. We still don't know how the visual system accomplishes this marvel of information processing. Such experiments are beginning to reveal how large networks of neurons in the brain extract meaning from the eye image.

Pieter was a tremendous asset when I played with him previously. He has a great cricket brain and I know he will again fit in well with the rest of the team. His coaching experience will be particularly welcome to the many young talented players at the club now.

Playing in public engenders new paths in your brain that you won't get playing alone. In other words, I can learn something playing in public in five seconds. If I was learning it in private, it might take me three months to get.

Relatively nothing is known about how the brain increases and decreases signaling. We want to discover the cellular mechanisms of how attention works.

Sports commentating is the answer for a restless brain like mine. I can never get bored because there is an infinite amount to know.

Some people are impulsive, some people are not; some people think through their decisions while others don't, and sometimes this can become pathological. Impulsive behavior can be associated with all sorts of mental disorders like addiction or problem gambling. If it could be demonstrated that we could change the way people perceive risk and ambiguity by introducing a medication that could influence brain chemistry, someday we might be able to alleviate some types of pathological decision making.

That extra year, the kids need it. Their brain hasn't matured. Sometimes I relate this to trying to pour a gallon bottle of milk into a pint and it just overflows -- they can't take in all that information.

That basically sets up a chain of events that will allow a blood clot to form near the hole or in it and then be pushed into the brain by the prime minister's own heart beat.

My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery -always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?

I wonder what it is in the New York air that enables me to sit up till all hours of the night in an atmosphere which in London would make a horse dizzy, but here merely clears the brain