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…Emily Dickinson’s Theme of Death Emily Dickinson's poems "Because I Could Not Stop for Death", "I Heard A Fly Buzz-When I Died", and "I Felt A Funeral In My Brain" all deal with one of life's few certainties, death. Dickinson's intense curiosity…

…). The basic advantage of a small set of phonemic units lie in their cognitive indexical function, there facilitation of storage and rapid retrieval of information from an increasingly larger mental lexicon. In other words, the bigger the brain and the more compact…

…July 14 2002 2:15pm page 22 The prologue commences with the author, John Gunther, summarizing his son’s prolonged battle with a brain tumor. The memoir is written in the first person from Gunther’s point of view. It appears that Gunther’s son, Johnny…

…” (Healthy Place: OCD Community). The writer of this poem has a disease call Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). In OCD, it is as though the brain gets stuck on a particular thought or urge and just can't let go. OCD can persist throughout a person’s life…

…disorder of the brain. It impairs ones communication and social skills. Autism is a fairly common but devastating disorder. It is the third most prevalent developmental disability behind mental retardation and cerebral palsy. Autism occurs once in every 500…

…effects it has on the body, mind, and others around the abuser. Eating an ecstasy tablet, more commonly referred to as “rolling”, breaks down and damages the brain, in more ways than one. It kills brain cells, as well as, actually eats away at the brain…

…an image on the retina. The next stage is transduction. This involves transforming the physical energy of light that has been reflected by objects in the environment, into electrochemical energy which is transmitted to the brain. After transduction…

…or vCJD (Morris). Transmittable Spongiform encephalopathy or TSE is another name. Spongiform encephalopathies are nervous system disorders which nerve cells of the brain die, causing the brain to assume a sponge-like appearance (Montague, Part 1). In 1985…

…that our brain is storing an enormous amount of templates in our long-term memory. When we view stimuli our brain recognizes those stimuli as a template already imbedded in our memory and we are then able to tell what the stimuli are. When we use Selfridge’s…

…, receives the MMR vaccine or not! The Public Health Authorities advise parents to give children the vaccine, based on existing evidence, and yet, there are some doubts? Proof in the Pudding! "A 13-year old boy, brain damaged after the controversial MMR jab…