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Ice Skating and the Brain
Ice Skating and the Brain How do champion skaters accomplish their extraordinary jumps and spins? Brain science is uncovering clues.…
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The Maine Shooter’s Traumatic Brain Injury Didn’t Have to Happen
It’s hard to explain how it feels to be behind an artillery piece when it fires. First is the roaring…
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Wide Ramifications Seen for Brain Damage Found in Maine Gunman
Exposure to blasts, even at low levels, may play a much greater role in veterans’ mental health struggles than has…
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Profound Damage Found in Maine Gunman’s Brain, Possibly From Blasts
A laboratory found a pattern of cell damage that has been seen in veterans exposed to weapons blasts, and said…
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An Ultrasound Experiment Tackles a Giant Problem in Brain Medicine
The effects of drugs that treat Alzheimer’s, cancer and other illnesses are often limited by the blood-brain barrier. A small…
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Did Army Blast Exposure Play Role in Maine Gunman’s Rampage?
After a 40-year-old Army Reservist named Robert Card went on a shooting spree in Lewiston, Maine, in October, his community…
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U.S. Troops Still Train on Weapons With Known Risk of Brain Injury
A blast shattered the stillness of a meadow in the Ozark Mountains on an autumn afternoon. Then another, and another,…
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The Human Brain Has a Dizzying Array of Mystery Cells
Researchers identified some 3,300 types of brain cells, an order of magnitude more than was previously known, and have only…
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New A.I. Tool Diagnoses Brain Tumors on the Operating Table
A new study describes a method for faster and more precise diagnoses, which can help surgeons decide how aggressively to…
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The Most Important Eight Hours of Your Day? They Weren’t Always.
Kenneth Miller’s “Mapping the Darkness” takes on the turbulent study of sleeping, its heroes and villains and its ongoing fight…
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