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	Best brain bank
		We racked our brains to figure out why the bank wanted our thinking machines, and learned that if you're interested in the cause of Alzheimer's disease (this is not something most people wonder about) you need some brain tissue to study.
		Brain donations are accompanied by a detailed health report, and, to improve knowledge of genetic causes, with as much information on the health of relatives as can be gathered.
		All parts of the brain are not created equal, and Vincent notes certain regions are in high demand, including the substantia nigra, the "fl stuff" that croaks in Parkinson's, and the frontal lobe, implicated in schizophrenia.
	whyfiles.org /097halloween/4.html (911 words)

	Chapter Six: Building New Brains. . . (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab-3.cs.princeton.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The number of neurons in the human brain is estimated at approximately 100 billion, with an average of 1,000 connections per neuron, for a total of 100 trillion connections.
		The brain relies on a large degree of redundancy and a relatively low density of information storage to gain reliability and to continue to function effectively despite a high rate of neuron loss as we age.
		The most immediate--scanning the brain to understand it--is to scan portions of the brain to ascertain the architecture and implicit algorithms of interneuronal connections in different regions.
	www.kurzweilai.net.cob-web.org:8888 /articles/art0276.html (9438 words)

	after life - SciForums.com
		The brain function these patients were found to have while unconscious is commonly believed to be incapable of sustaining lucid thought processes or allowing lasting memories to form, Parnia said — pointing to the fact that nobody fully grasps how the brain generates thoughts.
		The brain itself is made up of cells, like all the body's organs, and is not really capable of producing the subjective phenomenon of thought that people have, he said.
		Of course the first thing I have to point out is that none of these people were really dead - none were brain dead either (had they been they could not have come back to talk about their experiences).
	www.sciforums.com /showthread.php?t=3241 (1948 words)

	Oh, death, where is thy starting?
		Brain death is defined as the "irreversible cessation of all brain function." In the 1980s, all 50 states followed a presidential commission's recommendation and rewrote the legal definitions of death.
		Brain activity can shut down slowly, in pockets and waves, with auditory and hormonal function lingering long after other parts of the brain are done.
		The Japanese call brain death "the death that cannot be seen" and worry that it gives over the determination of death to medicine and technology rather than to family.
	www.baptiststandard.com /1999/11_3/pages/death.html (1333 words)

	Neuroscience for Kids - Einstein's Brain
		The ratios of neurons to glial cells in Einstein’s brain were compared to those from the brains of 11 men who died at the average age of 64.
		The ratios of neurons to glial cells in Einstein’s brain, as compared to those in the 11 normal brains, were smaller in all four areas studied.
		He finally published a paper on the brain in 1929 where he reported that some neurons (pyramidal neurons) in layer III of the cerebral cortex of Lenin's brain were very numerous and large.
	faculty.washington.edu /chudler/ein.html (1565 words)

	Brains4Zombies.com Brains
		The frontal lobe, largest of all the lobes of the brain (and great for when you have guests over for dinner), lies rostral to the central sulcus (that is, toward the nose from the sulcus).
		Brain was able to create an increasing intertest in brains that I never had before.
		I am the Brain Farmer (what the hell is a brain farmer?), and I want to comment on this brain.
	www.brains4zombies.com /brains.html (869 words)

	Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram
		Allegations that brains were given for research without consent prompt a look at laws and rules.
		Ethical problems with brain harvesting prompt a bill to prevent state workers from using their positions to profit in a private capacity.
		A lawsuit over the use of a dead man's brain appears to be the first under a 35-year-old Maine law.
	pressherald.mainetoday.com /specialrpts/braindonors (1295 words)

	DVD Verdict Review - Fright Pack: Walking Dead
		Fright Pack: Walking Dead is an international conference on the "life challenged," with a strange focus on European shock directors and a guest appearance by Joe Piscopo (Saturday Night Live).
		The dead return to haunt the living, and cause major problems in a little town called Dunwich.
		Among all the rip-offs of Night of the Living Dead this "little zombie movie that could" is one of the undisputed classics of the genre.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/frightpackwalkingdead.php (2209 words)

	Dead Brains Get Smart - research on use of stem cells to grow brain cells - Brief Article Science World - Find Articles
		The experiment marks a major medical breakthrough--normally the brain doesn't replenish neurons that die, and their number gradually decreases with age.
		Scientists have discovered the human brain is equipped with adult stem cells as well, and depends on them for rejuvenation.
		Although Gage has yet to determine if new neurons created from dead brains will be functional in humans, he has good reason to believe they will.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1590/is_8_57/ai_69698654 (517 words)

	People have near-death experiences while brain dead
		She underwent a rare operation to remove a giant basilar artery aneurysm in her brain that threatened her life.
		This case is considered to be one of the strongest cases of veridical evidence in NDE research because of her ability to describe the unique surgical instruments and procedures used and her ability to describe in detail these events while she was clinically and brain dead.
		And third, documentation of no blood flow to the brain is a marker for a generalized absence of brain function.
	www.near-death.com /experiences/evidence01.html (2007 words)

	EAT MY BRAINS! - Dead and Breakfast Review
		Dead and Breakfast is set in a town called Lovelock.
		Dead and Breakfast is the type of movie where characters have arguments about whether or not the aggressors outside are zombies or not.
		And yes, many dead heads are blasted to smithereens using this lethal peice of piping.
	www.eatmybrains.com /showreview.php?id=207 (711 words)

	Toxin Found In Brains Of Dead Alzheimer's Victims Substance Made By Algae Common In Lakes, Oceans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The same neurotoxin has turned up in brain tissues taken from people in Guam who died of dementia, say researchers, who warn that chronic exposure to the algal toxins may pose a public health threat.
		The international team, headed by Paul Cox of the Institute for Ethnomedicine in Hawaii, reports "BMAA was recently discovered in the brain tissues of nine Canadian Alzheimer's patients." The toxin was not detected in 14 other Canadians who died of causes unrelated to neurodegeneration.
		BMAA's chemical signature in the brains of Canadian Alzheimer's patients indicates the problem may not be unique to Guam.
	www.rense.com /general64/alznd.htm (592 words)

	EAT MY BRAINS! - Dead Man's Shoes Review
		And when Richard returns later that evening, wearing a boiler suit and a suitably freaky gas mask, we know that there’s going to be a fistful of revenge and redemption happening before this tale reaches it’s end.
		It is only at the end of day two when Richard makes his first killing, a vicious axe attack in the toilet which leaves one man dead and the words ‘One Down’ written in blood on the wall.
		Dead Man's Shoes is released for rental in the UK on the 21st February.
	www.eatmybrains.com /showreview.php?id=67 (1050 words)

	IOL: Dead people's brains 'stolen' for research
		In a sinister reminder of scandals in the late 1990s, when hospitals were found to have secretly kept the hearts of dead children for research, the government said the illicit removal of brains had been "widespread in the 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s".
		Medics took his brain for research without asking permission from his wife, who found out about this three years ago while sifting through letters written by doctors at the time of her husband's death.
		Under British legislation, the organs of dead people may be kept and used for research only if their relatives give explicit consent.
	www.iol.co.za /index.php?click_id=3&art_id=vn20030513060108807C856842&set_id=1 (675 words)

	Classic-Horror Review of The Return of the Living Dead (1985)
		Secondly, unless you are an all-star track runner, you better get a fast car to get away from these zombies; since they sprint and tackle their victims in large groups, which makes a getaway very difficult.
		Return of the Living Dead is nowhere near a gory film to the likes of other films it borrows from.
		The big reason this is so ghastly is because authentic cow brains were used, and the actors had to eat them in actuality.
	classic-horror.com /reviews/returnlivingdead.shtml (1170 words)

	AEGiS-AP: $6,000,000 Given for HIV Brain Bank (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		NEW YORK (AP) - Three hospitals and medical schools are receiving $6 million to collect the brains of dead AIDS patients for research on the disease's neurological effects.
		Medical researchers from around the country will be able to apply to use the brain tissue for study, she said.
		Among the questions researchers expect to tackle are whether the AIDS virus can hide in patients' brains or nervous systems when it is undetectable in blood tests and what impact, if any, new drug therapies have on the brain.
	www.aegis.com /news/ap/1998/AP981211.html (404 words)

	STAFF at a Midland hospital were
		The cash was given to mortuary technicians at Birmingham Children's Hospital for the removal of pituitary glands from the brain which were later used for research.
		He had also been born with a congenital heart condition and lost his battle for life after a heart test was carried out under general anaesthetic at the hospital.
		In a tragic twist, her sister-in-law Sandra Towner also discovered that the heart and brain of her dead son, also called Paul, had been taken after his death in August 1990.
	www.whale.to /a/hospital6.html (1209 words)

	TIME.com: Wanted: Dead Brains -- Jan. 29, 1934 -- Page 1
		His purpose: "To know consistent differences between the brilliant man and the dullard, the scholar and the professional wrestler.
		To know whether the brain can show what has to be born, and how much the brain we are born with can be expected to develop by use as well as suffer from misuse and disease.
		We must learn what we may dare to do in brain surgery.
	www.time.com /time/archive/preview/0,10987,787785,00.html (424 words)

	Zombie Eat Brains: Brains.
		Shaun of the Dead: The best of the recent crop of zombie flicks (again, with Land of the Dead taken out of consideration), it succeeds as both comedy and horror.
		Night of the Living Dead: The godfather of the modern zombie genre; the benchmark against which all followers must be compared.
		Dawn of the Dead: I've already attested to the fact that this is the greatest movie of all time, so it should be no surprise to find it at #1 on this list.
	hungryzombie.blogspot.com /2005/07/brains_11.html (829 words)

	IGN: Dead Rising Preview
		March 21, 2006 - Dead Rising is still a long way off, but we got our hands on an early build of Capcom's zombie-fest at Microsoft's Spring Showcase event in San Francisco Tuesday.
		We started off in a security room at the mall and decided to follow a yellow arrow to what we believe is a pharmacy on the other side of the map.
		That means we had to run through the mall, a courtyard, another part of the mall, and whatever else we would have had to run through if the game did not crash.
	xbox360.ign.com /articles/697/697567p1.html (563 words)

	Urban Dead - A Free Massively Multi-Player Web-Based Zombie Apocalypse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The air is now clear enough for binoculars to be used from tall buildings, to scan distant streets for growing hordes or lost survivors.
		And the dead rise up and thrive, trailing through the ruined streets of the city, milling between buildings and clawing through makeshift barricades and diversions, reclaiming the city as their own.
		Urban Dead is a free-to-play browser-based multi-player game where you play the survivor or victim of a zombie outbreak in a quarantined city centre, alongside tens of thousands of others.
	www.urbandead.com (209 words)

	Living To Be Dead: The Melbourne Zombie Shuffle - feature article In Film Australia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Well, not really: the fact that those claiming to be dead were, at the time, very much alive was a mere technicality.
		But for the unsuspecting folk exposed to the inaugural Melbourne Zombie Shuffle, an event comprised of horror movie aficionados who kitted up in gnarly outfits and staggered, groaned and slobbered their way through the city, it was about as close to an undead apocalypse as anything this side of a George Romero movie.
		But the dead don’t talk!” Adam attempted to sell a zombie one of his magazines but his targeted clientele was, at the time, only interested in brains.
	www.infilm.com.au /features/zombieshuffle.htm (1118 words)

	CNN.com - Health - New life from dead brains: Stem cells from cadavers - November 5, 2000
		In every case -- as well as with cells from a man who died at 72 _ researcher Theo Palmer was able to get some of the cells to divide and reproduce themselves, and to grow into different kinds of nervous system cells, Gage said.
		Black grew brain cells from cells taken from bone marrow, where they ordinarily would have created bone, cartilage, muscle, tendon and fat cells.
		He previously reported that he and his colleagues had been able to turn 80 percent of the bone marrow cells taken from rats and humans into nerve cells.
	edition.cnn.com /2000/HEALTH/11/05/cadavers.stem.cells.ap (705 words)

	EAT MY BRAINS! - Evil Dead - Cranky Pants?!? News Article
		Unlike many of it's contemporaries, Evil Dead: A Fistful of Boomstick was a true labour of love, and I wore a smile from ear to ear while playing it through.
		The horror-zombie genre is already much in vogue this year, with the remake of Dawn of the Dead and the equally excellent Shaun of The Dead having done good business at the UK box office.
		But news now reaches us of a new Evil Dead game, confirmed by actor Bruce Campbell in a recent interview with movie site aintitcoolnews.
	www.eatmybrains.com /shownews.php?id=75 (305 words)

	o zombie comeu o meu blog: novo trailer de land of the dead. brains!
		o zombie comeu o meu blog: novo trailer de land of the dead.
		acho que não preciso de voltar a repetir aqui o meu entusiasmo em relação a land of the dead.
		a dead person who is believed, in some caribbean religions, to have been brought back to life by magic.
	www.ozombie.com /archives/novo_trailer_de_land_of_the_dead_brains.php (339 words)

	www.myspace.com/brainsxthree
		May 2005, Horror punk band, Brains Brains Brains, was formed by Mitch Chaos Vincent Macabre and Tony Bologna...
		Playing with such acts as Calabrse, Nuke and The Living Dead, and The Afterdarks, the band has joined the unholy ranks of the Horror Rock and Roll Revolution; and is currently planning their West Coast Invasion for Summer 2006.
		Definitely going to be back in the QC the beginnin part of September around the 7th to the 14th or so (hint hint..).
	www.myspace.com /brainsxthree (600 words)

	Pace Press - Dawn of the Dead: Mmmm...Brains
		If I had to pick the hardest type of movie to review, I'd say the remake has always given me trouble, especially when it came to putting down how I felt about it.
		Based off the 1978 George Romero film of the same name the 2004 update of Dawn of the Dead feels like a soulless shell of what the original was (see, told you, biased from the beginning).
		Where the first was an action/comedy/horror movie that always seemed to take itself as a satire and delivered biting social commentary about American consumerism, this new version, directed by Zack Snyder, just seems to be trying too hard.
	www.pacepress.org /home/index.cfm?event=displayArticlePrinterFriendly&uStory_id=df81c3b7-c100-4b73-9a28-9a94f2a215fd (610 words)

	Dawn of the Dead (2004) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		When there is no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth.
		I'm not sure I can recall witnessing an opening sequence quite like the one I saw in Zack Snyder's remake of the classic horror film 'Dawn of the Dead.' Besides being rather lengthy (it's over ten minutes before we see the opening credits), it has a bizarre creepiness about it.
		The pure chaos of the scenario, an outbreak of a dangerous break of a virus that turns those infected into ghouls, comes so suddenly that it grips us by the throat.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0363547 (690 words)

	928 FAQ
		The idle setting need only be reset on 928s that have the Bosch Hammer connections, and apparently, some folks have managed to do it without the Hammer.
		One of those smarts is that it doesn't turn on until it is hooked to a battery.
		If your battery is totally dead, then the maintainer obviously can't tell that it is hooked to a battery, so it won't turn on.
	www.rennlist.com /techarticles/928/928batteryfaq.htm (5386 words)

	Dead brains Re: What is killing Smalltalk...
		The fundamental problem is not that much that Smalltalk is really dead in the mind of some kind of managers, but rather that the minds of of quite a few managers have been dead for a long time.
		And if, by some trick of fortune, this is not yet quite the case, the typical environments in which they plod on reward them for being brain-dead or at least for pretending to be such.
		The bottom line is that we are facing a fl hole in the Solar System - that of systemic managerial idiocy, which from a rational point of view should be self-defeating, but which in practice thrives like cancer.
	www.codecomments.com /message213190.html (336 words)

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