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This is the VOA Special English Health Report. We often hear the term brain aneurysm. Joe Biden had two of them twenty years ago. Doctors saved his life. Now the sixty-five year old senator from Delaware has just been named the vice presidential cho

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VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Barbara Klein. VOICE TWO: Oliver Sacks And I'm Bob Doughty. This week, we tell about the doctor and writer Oliver Sacks. He has spent most of his adult life treating patients in New

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Magnetism and the Brain 2 Not a new idea Using EP-MRSI to treat mental illness is a completely different approach only because of the way the magnetism is applied to the brain. The notion that the bra

SSS 2011-06-21

This is Scientific American sixty seconds science. I am cythina Graber. This will just take a minute. You are lying in a hammock by a breezy shore. The hammock rocks softly back and forth.in no time. It turns out that not just the relaxation of being

VOA慢速英语--Three Books That Explore the Human Brain

SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: Im Shirley Griffith. STEVE EMBER: And Im Steve Ember with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we discuss three books that tell about ways the human brain works. One book considers the power of the brain in controlling why som

2007年VOA标准英语-Deep Brain Stimulation Used For Traumatic Injur

By Melinda Smith Washington 07 August 2007 Deep Brain Stimulation has been used successfully on patients in advanced stages of Parkinson's disease and other neurological movement disorders such as tremors. The remarkable success of this experimental

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This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. Youre lying in a hammock by a breezy shore. The hammock rocks softly back and forth. In no time(snoring). It turns out thats not just the relaxation of b

VOA标准英语2008年-Monkeys Use Brain Signals To Operate Robotic Ar

By Jessica Berman Washington 28 May 2008 Monkeys have successfully operated robotic arms to feed themselves with human-like precision, activating a mechanical device with signals from their brain. Researchers say the technique could eventually be use

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While You Sleep, Your Brain Works 睡眠时大脑并未停止工作 From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Report. Why do we need sleep? 为什么人们需要睡眠？ Is bedtime just a time for dreaming? Do our brains turn off for the night?

New Treatment Could Prevent, Reverse Alzheimer’s

New Treatment Could Prevent, Reverse Alzheimers New research suggests that a brain protein that has changed form may be the cause of brain disorders -- including Alzheimers Disease. Researchers say they have developed a treatment that may cause the p

VOA标准英语2011--Study: Vitamin B12 Deficits in Older Adults Linked to Brain Decline

Study: Vitamin B12 Deficits in Older Adults Linked to Brain Decline

VOA标准英语2013--Scientists Create 3D Roadmap of Human Brain

Scientists Create 3D Roadmap of Human Brain The project is called BigBrain. In three dimensions and intricate detail, it reveals the anatomy of the brain as never seen before. These are images of a 3-D reconstructed human brain with a spatial resolut

VOA标准英语2014--Study: Electric Brain Stimulation Alleviates Some Disorders

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DAVID GREENE, HOST: Scientists have taken one more small step toward understanding what makes the human brain unique. As NPR's Jon Hamilton reports, they've identified a type of brain cell that exists in people but not in rodents. JON HAMILTON, BYLIN

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From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Report. November is Alzheimers Awareness Month in the United States. Alzheimers is a frightening disease. It is frightening not only for those who suffer from memory loss, but also for their loved ones. B

Gambling and the Brain

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美国科学家研究“起死回生术”

A groundbreaking trial to see if it is possible to regenerate the brains of dead people, has won approval from health watchdogs. 探究死者大脑能否重获新生的开创性实验已获卫生监管部门批准可以开展。 A biotech company in

VOA常速英语2008年-Study Finds Brain Stimulation May Improve Memor

By Alex Villarreal Washington, DC 01 February 2008 Medical researchers in Canada say a brain stimulation procedure used to treat people with Parkinson's and other diseases could help restore the memory of dementia patients. The researchers stumbled u

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We dream to keep our brains working. 我们为了保证大脑运转而做梦。 The continual activation theory proposes that 持续激活理论提出， your dreams result from your brain's need to constantly consolidate and create long-term memorie

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Horrifying dreams at night could be one of the first signs of Parkinson's disease, according to scientists.Those who shout or cry in their sleep could be more likely to develop the condition within the next five years. 近日，科学家研究证明了