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Duration</title><category>Human Brain</category><description>Peer-reviewed research reveals how brain neural activity directly controls time perception, offering insights for developing treatments for Parkinson&#39;s and Huntington&#39;s</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/brain/timelapse.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/brain/timelapse.php</guid><pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2023 11:33:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Noninvasive Brain Decoder Can Transcribe Stories in the Mind</title><category>Human Brain</category><description>New artificial intelligence (AI) system can translate brain activity while listening to a story, or silently imagining telling a story, into text</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/brain/brain-decoder.php</link><guid 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A reassessment of the DeSilva et al. 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17:33:54 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Human Brain Facts and Answers</title><category>Human Brain</category><description>Fascinating look into the human brain and how it works, health facts, and why it matters for everyone</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/brain/bfa.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/brain/bfa.php</guid><pubDate>Thu, 21 Dec 2017 12:09:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Belief in Gods Not Linked to Rational Thinking</title><category>Human Brain</category><description>Peer-reviewed study finds no link between cognitive style and religious belief, highlighting the influence of upbringing and culture over intuition or logic</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/brain/religious-belief.php</link><guid 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brain</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/brain/map.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/brain/map.php</guid><pubDate>Fri, 11 Aug 2017 10:52:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Musical Anhedonia: A Dislike of Music</title><category>Human Brain</category><description>Study explains brain mechanisms associated to lack of sensitivity to music and how the brain of people who do not like music works</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/brain/anhedonia.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/brain/anhedonia.php</guid><pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2016 11:28:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Do Males or Females Have Better Memory</title><category>Human Brain</category><description>Study proves middle-aged women outperform age-matched men on all memory measures, although memory does decline as women enter postmenopause</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/brain/mf-memory.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/brain/mf-memory.php</guid><pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2016 10:29:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Does Human Brain Size Matter? Cracking the Brain&#39;s Genetic Code</title><category>Human Brain</category><description>USC scientists are cracking the genetic code of the human brain, discovering how variations in DNA affect the structure of our brains</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/brain/brain-genes.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/brain/brain-genes.php</guid><pubDate>Sat, 08 Oct 2016 10:13:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Woman With Amnesia Defies Conventional Memory Knowledge</title><category>Human Brain</category><description>Conventional wisdom about memory firmly separates declarative knowledge, memories about facts, from memories for skills, or muscle memory</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/brain/knowledge.php</link><guid 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brains</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/brain/religion.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/brain/religion.php</guid><pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2016 09:09:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Altruism and Brain Wiring: Treating Empathically Challenged</title><category>Human Brain</category><description>Peer-reviewed neuroscience research reveals that people with heightened activity in brain regions associated with empathy and emotion are the most generous and altruistic</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/brain/altruism.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/brain/altruism.php</guid><pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2016 11:05:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Delirium Symptoms, Facts and General Information</title><category>Human Brain</category><description>General information and overview of delirium, a disturbance in mental abilities that results in reduced awareness and confused thinking</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/brain/delirium-confusion.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/brain/delirium-confusion.php</guid><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2015 09:34:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Link Between Brain and Immune System Has Major Implications</title><category>Human Brain</category><description>Stunning discovery determines the human brain is directly connected to immune system by vessels previously thought not to exist</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/brain/implication.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/brain/implication.php</guid><pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2015 12:01:20 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Brain&#39;s Ability to Heal Itself Research Offers Hope for TBI</title><category>Traumatic Brain Injury</category><description>Groundbreaking pioneering work is underway seeks to understand and repair brain function at the molecular level</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/tbi/brain-research.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/tbi/brain-research.php</guid><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2015 11:15:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Scientists Map Brains of Blind to Solve Mysteries</title><category>Human Brain</category><description>Studying brain activity of blind people, scientists are challenging the standard view of how the human brain specializes to perform different kinds of tasks, and shedding new light on how our brains can 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Malformation</title><category>Human Brain</category><description>Researchers discover network of tissue communication that ensures the brain and spinal cord are matched with the skull and spinal column during embryonic development</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/brain/skull.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/brain/skull.php</guid><pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2014 16:43:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>What it Means to Be Humane </title><category>Human Brain</category><description>New research finds compassion can produce counter-intuitive results, challenging prevailing views of empathys effects on moral judgment</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/brain/humane.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/brain/humane.php</guid><pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2014 14:09:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Brain&#39;s Visual Cortex Also Processes Auditory Information</title><category>Human Brain</category><description>Scientists studying brain process involved in sight found the visual cortex also uses information gleaned from the ears as well as the eyes when viewing the world</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/brain/cortex.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/brain/cortex.php</guid><pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2014 15:14:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Your Amazing Brain: Avoiding Dementia and Promoting Better Brain Health</title><category>Human Brain</category><description>Dr. Roger Landry author of Live Long Die Short - A Guide to Authentic Health and Successful Aging, takes a look at the amazing human brain</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/brain/neuroplasticity.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/brain/neuroplasticity.php</guid><pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2014 11:19:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Why We Sometimes Remember Dreams</title><category>Human Brain</category><description>In a new study a research team sought to identify which areas of the brain differentiate high and low dream re-callers</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/brain/dreams.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/brain/dreams.php</guid><pubDate>Mon, 17 Feb 2014 10:43:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Researchers Find Caffeine Enhances Memory</title><category>Human Brain</category><description>Researchers find caffeine has a positive effect on long-term memory in humans up to 24 hours after it is consumed</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/brain/enhances.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/brain/enhances.php</guid><pubDate>Sat, 18 Jan 2014 13:47:29 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Scans Reveal Past Brain Activity - Possible Future Use in Diagnosing Cognitive Disabilities</title><category>Human Brain</category><description>Researchers discover spontaneously emerging activity patterns preserve traces of previous cognitive activity in the human brain</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/brain/activity.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/brain/activity.php</guid><pubDate>Tue, 25 Jun 2013 10:17:43 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>REM Sleep Behavior Disorder: Acting Out Dreams While Asleep</title><category>Human Brain</category><description>RBD (REM Sleep Behavior Disorder) poses significant risks to individuals who experience it, and there&#39;s potential for harm to the affected person and anyone sharing a bed with them</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/brain/rbd.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/brain/rbd.php</guid><pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2012 13:53:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Social Isolation and Disruption of Myelin Production</title><category>Human Brain</category><description>Recent research has discovered that social isolation disrupts the process of myelination of brain cell axons</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/brain/myelin.php</link><guid 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unable to speak due to stroke or paralysis</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/brain/thoughts.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/brain/thoughts.php</guid><pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:22:30 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Nutrient Levels and Diet Linked to Cognitive Ability and Brain Shrinkage</title><category>Human Brain</category><description>Favorable cognitive outcomes and brain size measurements associated with two dietary patterns high levels of marine fatty acids and high levels of vitamins B C D and E</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/brain/brain-shrinkage.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/brain/brain-shrinkage.php</guid><pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 11:15:29 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>How the Brain Works: Stringing Words into Sentences</title><category>Human Brain</category><description>Advances in brain imaging reveal complex cognitive tasks like language processing rely on particular regions of the cerebral cortex and white matter fiber pathways connecting them</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/brain/stringing.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/brain/stringing.php</guid><pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 18:59:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>New Piece to Puzzle of Brain Communication Function</title><category>Human Brain</category><description>Discovery about a part of the brains complex communication system could form basis for development of better medicines for patients with psychiatric disorders</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/brain/communication-function.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/brain/communication-function.php</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2011 17:03:18 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Synesthesia: Seeing Sounds and Hearing Colors</title><category>Human Brain</category><description>Synesthesia is a neurological phenomenon where senses blend, such as seeing sounds or tasting colors, with over 60 types described and explored</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/brain/synesthesia.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/brain/synesthesia.php</guid><pubDate>Sun, 03 Jul 2011 17:18:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Why Do Some Races All Look Alike</title><category>Human Brain</category><description>Biological evidence suggesting the brain works differently when memorizing the face of a person from your own race than when memorizing a face from another race</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/brain/alike.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/brain/alike.php</guid><pubDate>Sat, 02 Jul 2011 09:41:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Neural Prosthesis Restores and Enhances Memory in Rats</title><category>Human Brain</category><description>USC and Wake Forest scientists developed an electronic brain prosthesis that restores long-term memory in rats by duplicating hippocampal neural signals</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/brain/restoring-memory.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/brain/restoring-memory.php</guid><pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2011 16:26:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Converting Skin Cells to Brain Cells</title><category>Human Brain</category><description>Research has proven it is possible to reprogram mature cells from human skin directly into brain cells without passing through the stem cell stage</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/brain/brain-cells.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/brain/brain-cells.php</guid><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jun 2011 17:19:01 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Brain and Body Conflict Helps Thinking Outside the Box</title><category>Human Brain</category><description>New study shows physical and psychological ambivalence leads to expanded creativity and open-mindedness</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/brain/mind-body.php</link><guid 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wired</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/brain/gut-feelings.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/brain/gut-feelings.php</guid><pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 11:36:31 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Long-term Memory Making - Major Clue Discovered</title><category>Human Brain</category><description>Findings about how brain synapses change the strength of connections could have a bearing on Alzheimers disease autism and mental retardation</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/brain/memory-making.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/brain/memory-making.php</guid><pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2011 13:18:51 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Important Role for Cerebellum - Epilepsy Trigger Discovered</title><category>Human Brain</category><description>Hereditary diseases such as epilepsy or various coordination disorders may be caused by changes in nerve cells of the cerebellum</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/brain/cerebellum.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/brain/cerebellum.php</guid><pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 16:11:22 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>How the Brain Reorganizes Itself After Disruption</title><category>Human Brain</category><description>University of Michigan study reveals how the brain compensates for disrupted neural functioning by rerouting key processes tied to learning and memory</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/brain/reorganize.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/brain/reorganize.php</guid><pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 16:07:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Brain Waves Boost Ability to Learn as We Sleep</title><category>Human Brain</category><description>Bursts of brain waves known as sleep spindles may be networking between key regions of the brain to clear a path to learning</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/brain/brain-waves.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/brain/brain-waves.php</guid><pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 19:05:47 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Brain Cerebellum Provides Clues to Human Intelligence</title><category>Human Brain</category><description>Grey matter volume in the cerebellum at the back of the brain may predicts cognitive ability or intelligence level</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/brain/cerebellum-intelligence.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/brain/cerebellum-intelligence.php</guid><pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 12:02:03 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Dementia: Looking After Your Aging Brain</title><category>Human Brain</category><description>The lengthening of the average life span in today&#39;s population has caused an increase in the prevalence of aging related disorders</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/brain/healthy-brain.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/brain/healthy-brain.php</guid><pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 14:56:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Human Brain Does Not Need Vision to Read</title><category>Human Brain</category><description>Brain imaging studies of blind people as they read in Braille show activity in the same part of the brain that lights up when sighted readers read</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/brain/vision-brain.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/brain/vision-brain.php</guid><pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 16:18:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Brain Function Linked to Birth Size</title><category>Cognitive</category><description>Evidence links brain function variations between the left and right sides of the brain to size at birth and the weight of the placenta</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/cognitive/birth-size.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/cognitive/birth-size.php</guid><pubDate>Sat, 19 Feb 2011 15:39:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>The Brain Learns from Mistakes</title><category>Human Brain</category><description>The process of establishing a neuronal network does not always prove precise or error free</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/brain/learning-mistakes.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/brain/learning-mistakes.php</guid><pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 11:34:30 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Brains Need Love Too</title><category>Human Brain</category><description>Demonstrating how a mothers love positively affects her offsprings developing brain</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/brain/mothers-love.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/brain/mothers-love.php</guid><pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 16:43:04 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Sleep Selectively Stores Memories the Brain Deems Useful</title><category>Human Brain</category><description>Study finds the brain tags important memories while awake and selectively consolidates them during deep sleep, retaining information deemed useful for the future</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/brain/sleeping-memory.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/brain/sleeping-memory.php</guid><pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 10:14:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Brain Forgets Fast - One Bit Per Neuron Per Second Lost</title><category>Human Brain</category><description>Research from the Max Planck Institute reveals the brain&#39;s cerebral cortex deletes stored sensory information at a rate of one bit per active neuron per second</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/brain/forgetting.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/brain/forgetting.php</guid><pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2011 17:00:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Proven Ways to Help Improve Your Memory and Recall</title><category>Human Brain</category><description>Research-backed tips and techniques to improve memory, from diet and exercise to sleep habits, brain games, and lifestyle changes that protect cognitive health</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/brain/memory.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/brain/memory.php</guid><pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2011 16:32:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Structure Deep in the Brain May Contribute to Varied Social Life</title><category>Human Brain</category><description>The amygdala a small almond shaped structure deep within the brain temporal lobe is important to a rich and varied social life among humans</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/brain/amygdala.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/brain/amygdala.php</guid><pubDate>Sun, 26 Dec 2010 16:21:19 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>The Part of the Brain that Suppresses Instinct</title><category>Human Brain</category><description>Revealing which regions in the brain fire up when we suppress an automatic behavior</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/brain/instinct.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/brain/instinct.php</guid><pubDate>Wed, 22 Dec 2010 12:22:56 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>When the Brain Knows no Fear</title><category>Human Brain</category><description>Insight into emotional life of an individual who lacks function of an almond-shaped structure in the brain known as the amygdala</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/brain/fear-factor.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/brain/fear-factor.php</guid><pubDate>Fri, 17 Dec 2010 12:59:18 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Brain Foods - What You Eat Affects Your Brain</title><category>Human Brain</category><description>Article examines foods and exercises in order to maintain a health brain in middle age and senior years</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/brain/brain-foods.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/brain/brain-foods.php</guid><pubDate>Sat, 27 Nov 2010 11:50:22 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>The Brain Speaks - Decoding Words from Brain Signals</title><category>Human Brain</category><description>Decoding spoken words using only signals from the brain with a device that has promise for long-term use in paralyzed patients who cannot now speak</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/brain/decode-brain-signals.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/brain/decode-brain-signals.php</guid><pubDate>Sat, 27 Nov 2010 11:35:19 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>The Speed of Brain Cell Communication</title><category>Human Brain</category><description>Brain cell communication network the synapses transmit messages via chemical neurotransmitters packaged in small containers called vesicles</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/brain/brain-speed.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/brain/brain-speed.php</guid><pubDate>Sat, 27 Nov 2010 11:27:45 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Molecular Switch that Controls Neuronal Migration in the Developing Brain Identified</title><category>Human Brain</category><description>Key components of a signaling pathway that controls departure of neurons from the brain niche where they form and allows cells to start migrating to their final destination</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/brain/molecular-switch.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/brain/molecular-switch.php</guid><pubDate>Sat, 27 Nov 2010 10:48:14 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>How the Brain Shifts Between Sleep and Awake States Under Anesthesia</title><category>Human Brain</category><description>Information regarding how the human brain transitions between conscious and unconscious states when under anesthesia</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/brain/anesthesia-brain.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/brain/anesthesia-brain.php</guid><pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 13:53:21 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Part of the Brain that Tracks Your Limb Positions Found</title><category>Human Brain</category><description>Scientists have discovered the part of the brain that tracks the position of our limbs as we move through space</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/brain/brain-limbs.php</link><guid 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loneliness and activity in the human brain</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/brain/brain-loneliness.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/brain/brain-loneliness.php</guid><pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 16:55:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Brain Asymmetry Research</title><category>Human Brain</category><description>A tug-of-war between two sides of the brain causes it to become asymmetrical according to research</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/brain/brain-asymmetry.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/brain/brain-asymmetry.php</guid><pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 12:56:57 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item></channel></rss>