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Neuroscience and Neurological Diseases: Unlocking the Mysteries of the Brain
Pages 6-9

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... Illustration of neural Advanced 3D MRI scan networks in the brain of a human brain (iStock®) (Science Photo Library®)
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... This breakthrough led to the discovery of Illustration of in 1971, form a mental map of a person's an enkephalin molecule, which endorphins and other naturally occurring opiate surroundings, while "grid cells," not discovered is an endorphin and one of the like molecules, which dramatically advanced opioid peptides that occurs until 2005, act as a coordinate system that enables naturally in the human brain understanding and treatment of pain and substance precise positioning and pathfinding. (Science Photo Library®)
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... A simple with inherited and idiopathic forms of the disease. 1,000 genes determine the makeup of highly blood test can now determine the presence of Cognex, the first drug to treat the memory loss and specialized olfactory receptors located on cells in HTT, allowing those with the gene to make dementia associated with Alzheimer's, reached the the nasal cavity, which in turn send signals to the informed decisions about family planning.
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... from The most common cause of inherited infant spectral imaging scan of of a multicellular animal. Partial connectomes motor neurons in muscle mortality, spinal muscular atrophy usually results the bundles of white matter tissue (pink-purple strands)
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