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Monthly Archives: September 2007

Cell phone use and brain activity

September 18, 2007 – 12:09 pm

By contributing author Paul Li, a neuroscience graduate student at Columbia.
Ever since the advent of cellular phones, horror stories have been circulating on issues about its safety, particularly the effects it has on the human brain. Some have become increasingly worried and resort to using an ear piece whenever they are on the phone. While [...]

By Paul Li | Posted in Brain Health, Brain Research | Comments (0)

Almost no brain

September 10, 2007 – 3:13 pm

The picture to the left shows a large empty space where this man’s brain should be. The dark area occupying most of his head and labeled “LV” is fluid instead of brain. Amazingly, with just a little bit of gray matter on his inner skull, he has lived 44 years before anyone noticed his [...]

By Michael Scanlon | Posted in Brain Health | Comments (0)