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Topic: Brain Function

Related:
  Function    Brain  
  Management Functions    Brain Damage  
  Brain Injury    Brain Cells  
  Human Brain    Brain Part  
  Cell Function    Brain Disorders  
  Brain Disease    Left Brain  

 
 
 Vital Stats
The Brain has inferred the following facts from reading text collected on the topic:
People talk about their ..:Childhood trauma
Intelligence:Intelligent
Personality:Nervous,  Easily addicted,  Depressive
Currently has on their coffee table:New Scientist
Favorite body part(s):Brain,  Lungs
Interest(s):Psychology,  Biology
Favorite sportsperson(s):Lou Gehrig (baseball)
Ultimate fantasy(s):Having severe anorexia
Medical note(s):Family history of schizophrenia,  Undergoing therapy,  Has cancer
Worst habit(s):Taking Ecstasy,  Nervous twitch
Favorite quote(s):"Fill what's empty , empty what's full, and scratch where it itches." - the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life
"God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the same time." - Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair
 
 
 Expert Talk
The Brain has selected interesting relevant sentences from the web. It automatically assigned them to some of our fictitious experts based on their personalities.


Brian Mengel,
Civil Servant

The brain may also develop specialized areas more fully to compensate for diminished functions in other areas.
Steve Riggins,
Software Deveoper

If the brain is a pattern recognition machine, how does it ever perform logical functions such as mathematics?
Chogyam Trungpa Gyatso,
Tibetan Monk

That the brain functions by light borrowed from another source is admitted by the yogis themselves in their fontanelle theory.
Richard Hosking,
Paranormal Investigator

These functions are concentrated in the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain which are the most common sites of injury during a fall, accident or traumatic assault.
Adam Findley,
Professional Motivator

Brain wave biofeedback research has contributed evidence of operant control of the EEG and continues to provide increasing illumination into the nature and functions of the brain's electrical rhythms.
Flexeril functions by reducing muscle tone activity at the brain stem level, thereby alleviating pain and tenderness and increasing range of motion.
ADHD etiology is largely based in the neurological functions of the neurotransmitters of the brain and central nervous system.
Dan Toomey,
Computer Salesman

Gotman is also improving computer programs that can automatically monitor brain functions in patients in intensive care and in the operating room.
Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist

Studies of brain activities using these scanning instruments show increased blood flow and metabolism in brain areas activated by the experimental subject during selected brain functions.
Neuropsychology is the area of psychology which aims to find out how the brain performs certain cognitive functions by studying the range of deficits that patients show following brain damage.
Brain death is represented by total and irreversible damage of cerebral functions, and destruction of cerebral cortex and brain stem is its biological substrate.
Thomas Owens,
Police Officer

Surgery is used when other medical avenues have been pursued and when the injured brain tissue causing the seizures can be identified and safely removed without damaging psychological or major body functions.
 
 
 User Talk
Comments from our users:
From:
laura
2005-01-08 20:40:54
i have been druged and overdosed for over 20 years for guessing work by doctors for mental illness. know my brain is so messed up i can barely function, lossing lots of past and present memory, cant think how to spell, very slow, doctors kmow have given up on me and say my brain cells are dying off and will soon be placed in a home. im 42 and want to live. my mother is getting ready to place me back in a pych. hospital to be used has a ginny pig again on more drugs. any suggestions?
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