Corrections and Clarification Appended: February 19, 2008Lawrence King, an eighth grader who identified as gay and wore makeup and nail polish, was 15 when he was declared brain dead on Feb. 13
Tag Archives: brain
Staying Sharp: The Surprising Power of the Aging Brain
It took Barbara Hustedt Crook an awfully long time to get around to writing her first musical. She started last year, shortly before her 60th birthday
Music: Death of Gershwin
When Composer George Gershwin crumpled in Hollywood last fortnight, doctors called it overwork.
Cocaine Effects on Brain Genes Could Help Treat Addicts
It’s hardly a secret that taking cocaine can change the way you feel and the way you behave.
Medicine: Dream Institute
The nervous system is somehow involved in so many diseases and disorders, from fleeting, no-account headaches to crippling paralyses, that doctors are often at a loss to know what part of the patient to treat first.
Love Hurts
The very language of love is painful: you have a crush; you’re swept off your feet; your heart is broken. This turns out not to be poetic license: according to the latest research, the brain doesn’t distinguish much between the extreme emotional pain of social rejection and the physical pain of injury.
The Bright Side of Anger: It Motivates Others
On the whole, brain scans shore up what we’ve known all along about our emotions: some are positive and some are negative. Happiness, for instance, is positive — when people are in good moods, they tend to show more activity in certain regions on the left side of the brain
Small Child, Big Worries
Be grateful you can’t climb inside your baby’s brain. The mind of a baby might seem like a fun place to be–a swirl of light and color and constant touch, where primal needs are promptly met.
Week in Microsoft: multicore OS rewrites, WinPhone 7 casualties, IE security
A Microsoft engineer last week said that to properly handle multicore processors, future operating systems should discard the multitasking systems of today, in favor of dedicating cores to specific tasks. This seems more than a little surprising. The lack of native code development on Windows Phone 7 Series was always likely to discourage developers with […]
Awaking From a Coma: What Did the Doctors Miss?
Three years ago, Dr Steven Laureys, a neurologist at the University of Liege in Belgium, examined a comatose 43-year-old Belgian patient, Rom Houben, who for the past 23 years had been assumed by medical professionals to be brain dead.