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VOA标准英语2010年-Study: Traumatic Brain Injury Patients

When doctors treat brain injuries they generally focus on physical trauma and mental issues, but depression can develop as well and be just as disabling. A new study shows high rates of depression in the first year following a brain injury. Traumatic

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MRI Sees Brain Atrophy Years Before Alzheimer's Symptoms Memory loss and mental confusion are the first overt signs of Alzheimer's Disease, an incurable and fatal brain ailment. But scientists are starting to find evidence of the disease long before

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An estimated 20 percent of the population has trouble working with numbers. That's as many as one person in five with some sort of numerical disability. The British researchers are exploring ways to stimulate the brain to improve the ability to under

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