Article: BRAIN SCIENCE IS HELPING OUR CHILDREN Series: BRAIN CHILD How science and society can build brighter babies

Article: Newsweek Cover: 'Why We Can't Sleep'; 70 Million Americans Have ...
PR Newswire;  July 7, 2002 ;     700+ words ...NEW YORK -- Across America, people are tossing and turning in their beds, having a hard time falling asleep. In fact, there are more than 70 million Americans who have problems sleeping, according to Dr. Carl E. Hunt, director of the National Center on Sleep Disorders Research. About half have a

Article: In Search of Sleep: Millions of Americans are plagued by ...
Newsweek;  July 15, 2002 ;     700+ words ...Byline: Barbara Kantrowitz I didn't sleep well last night, but that's nothing new. My sleep problems began 20 years ago, just before my oldest son was born. Since then, I've spent far too many nights worrying about how I can't get to sleep and how I'll be too tired to do all the things I have to do

Article: Billionaire to fund new brain research institute; ...
AP Worldstream;  September 16, 2003 ;     451 words ... ... founder Paul Allen is donating $100 million to establish a new brain research center, he announced Tuesday. The first project for the nonprofit Allen Institute for Brain Science will be the Allen Brain Atlas, a project to map the role of ...

Article: The New Brain: neuroscience aims to discover how ...
The Futurist;  January 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... giving way to that of the New Brain. The Old Brain was remote ... and behavior?" The New Brain, in contrast, does ... imaging technologies, brain science is capable of providing ... Enhanced In the era of the New Brain, the emphasis is shifting ...

Article: FAMILY MATTERS; Babies, Brain Science And Loose ...
The Washington Post;  September 22, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... between public understanding of what brain science says about the early years of ... are considered facts about the new brain science. And he has a message for parents ... has been the same for 50 years, new brain research or not. Parents are ...

Article: BRAIN SCIENCE VS. DEATH PENALTY CHRISTOPHER ...
The Boston Globe;  October 12, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... penalty is about to get a boost from brain science. Tomorrow, when the US Supreme ... criminal responsibility begins. Brain science has evolved dramatically since ... hesitation about the use of the new brain data in court comes from the very ...

Article: Growth of New Brain Cells Requires 'Epigenetic' ...
Ascribe Higher Education News Service;  January 8, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... To find out if Gadd45b is required for new brain-cell growth, the research team made ... and tested their ability to generate new brain cells after ECT. They injected the mice ... March of Dimes, the Johns Hopkins Brain Science Institute and the Howard Hughes Medical ...