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…are not damaged.         A story recently ran in the Washington Post Health section. It was about a 15 year old girl who has brain cancer, name Becca Lilly. She underwent gene therapy six months ago to try and destroy the tumor. No other patient had ever…

…My news article appeared in UCLA News, which I found online. "UCLA-VA Study Names India Dietary Staple as Potential Alzheimer's Weapon. Breaks Up Brain Plaques in Mice"(Cole, 2004). The title immediately caught my attention because Alzheimer's Disease(AD…

…learn more about how a child's brain forms and develops. Every day teachers struggle to find effective tools for helping children use their brains to their greatest capacity. In a sense, both groups are focusing on different aspects of the same issues…

…with the photons bonded to the UV rays being sent from the sun. Our world was a replica of yours. An exact replica. Opposite in technology. I will get into that later. The cure, simple. Physiological, ESP type waves. The brain is more than what you know, true it does…

…the brain needs to rest and keeping it active for longer than usual will damage it. Amphethamines (commonly known as "speed") are highly addictive drugs that make their users depend on the drugs soon after their first use. Cocain ("coke") users can be higly…

…between cell phones and health problems ranging from headaches to brain tumors. Mobile communication devices are arguably the most radiative appliances used today. Cell phones give off microwave radiation and the human brain can absorb up to 60 percent…

…" is somewhat like a prediction that Homer made about how the world would turn out, and ways that normal human beings can be "heroes" and overcome it. Someday, even after many battles, if the brain is used we will all end up "home".…

…by standard urine tests for several days following usage, even weeks in heavy users. As for the effect that THC has on the brain, it suppresses neurons in the information processing system of the hippocampus, the part of the brain that is crucial for learning…

…died in a nursing home at the age of 55. Dr. Alzheimer wanted to conduct an autopsy to see if he could figure out exactly what had caused her mysterious death. He discovered "two startling abnormalities, inside and outside the brain cells." Tissue…

…, survived two emergency brain surgeries, spent nineteen anxious days in intensive care, six weeks in a coma, and four long months in Boulder Memorial Hospital's rehabilitative unit. Almost two years post-injury, this man lives at home and continues treatment…