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1. " What all students should know, after these big topics have been selected, is how to approach them with disciplined minds--to think, for example, like scientists, artists, or historians."

Source:   Hearron, Patricia F. "THE DISCIPLINED MIND: What All Students Should Understand" Childhood Education 76.3 Mar. 22 2000: 177 Google This

2. " Can scientists prompt the brain to grow new nerve cells to replace ones felled by strokes or neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's?"

Source:   J.T. "Brain, heal thyself" Science News 158.4 July 22 2000: 63 Google This

3. " Once scientists better understand where memory centers are located, they might use genetic techniques similar to those that created Doogie to heighten healthy memory regions in the brain to make up for damaged ones."

Source:   GUYNUP, SHARON. "THE SMART GENE" Science World 56.10 Feb. 21 2000: 12 Google This

4. " Until a few years ago, scientists believed that thinking and memory inevitably dulled in old age as irreplaceable brain cells steadily died off."

Source:   Tangley, Laura. "Aging brains need fresh challenges to stay agile" U.S. News & World Report 128.22 June 5 2000: 90 Google This

5. " Organized the first series of meetings on the topic in 1999 and 2000, bringing together leading brain scientists such as Steven Pinker, Steven Hyman, and Michael Gazzaniga. "

Source:   Jonietz, Erika. "Picking your brain:" Technology Review (Cambridge, Mass.) 107.9 Nov. 1 2004: 74-76 Google This

6. " If sex was on the brain then, more recently the hot topic has been "mind"--or, more precisely, how the brain gives rise to the mind."

Source:   Prusak, Bernard G. "MIND MATTERS" Commonweal 127.10 May 19 2000: 28 Google This

7. " Horgan's breezy but gripping book is destined to irritate many neuroscientists now working feverishly to understand the brain, as well as the cognitive scientists attempting to comprehend the "mystery" of mind."

Source:   Haught, John F. "Can we understand understanding?" Commonweal 127.6 Mar. 24 2000: 22 Google This

8. " Scientists have recently perfected a device that records the entire contents of your mind by performing a very detailed scan of your brain...."

Source:   Schick, Theodore, Jr. "Can You Go to Heaven?" Free Inquiry 19.4 Sept. 22 1999: 53 Google This

9. " The topics in the final version had a familiar and comfortable ring about them to many teachers and academic scientists, who had found the ones in the draft so different from where they expected the vision would lead."

Source:   Fensham, Peter. "Procedures of power & curriculum change; Foucault and thequest for possibilities in science education" Australian Journal of Education 43.2 Aug. 1 1999: 215 Google This

10. "... The Scientist in the Crib: Minds, Brains and How Children Learn, which emphasizes that what society does for preschoolers will affect not only the lives of those youngsters, but the future of the world as well. "It is remarkable how much little children know and..."

Source:   . "ARE BABIES SMARTER THAN ADULTS" USA Today (Magazine) 128.2655 Dec. 1 1999: 11 Google This

11. " So how can a scientist steer between the Scylla of nearly equating brain and mind (as indeed some do) and the Charybdis of an unspecified, airy-fairy alternative?"

Source:   Greenfield, Susan. "Making up our minds" New Statesman (1996) 4456.128 Sept. 27 1999 Google This

12. " For some time, it was believed that scientists were not communicating their findings about the brain changes that underlie addictive behaviors, and that treatment professionals were not successfully applying this new understanding about addiction in practice."

Source:   . "Addiction science is becoming more accessible to treatment" Brown University Digest of Addiction Theory and Application v17.n8 Aug. 1 1998: 1-3 Google This

13. " Scientists have already linked mind and machine by implanting electrodes into a paralyzed man's brain; he can control a computer's cursor with his mind."

Source:   Pasternak, Douglas. "John Norseen" U.S. News & World Report 128.1 Jan. 3 2000: 67 Google This

14. " Because individuals have different mind-brains (usually complex enough to be hyphenated), types of intelligence, cultural backgrounds, and values, common entry points may not work for all topics."

Source:   Smith, Ralph A. "The Disciplined Mind: What All Students Should Understand" Arts Education Policy Review 101.5 May 1 2000: 36 Google This

15. " Preliminary evidence from the same participants also links Williams syndrome to a lack of tissue in a frontal brain area already implicated in social behavior, including fear responses to strangers, the NIMH scientist says."

Source:   Bower, Bruce. "A very spatial brain defect: gene disorder blocks neural path for vision" Science News 166.11 Sept. 11 2004: 165-167 Google This

16. " This activity proves to be life long and it develops ones brain into a bright mind."

Source:   . "Institute of Learning and Motivation" Economic Review 31.1 Jan. 1 2000: 53 Google This

17. " The scientists wanted to learn why birds sometimes sleep with only half their brains, keeping the other half alert and one eye open."

Source:   . "HALF-ASLEEP DUCKS" National Wildlife June 1 1999 Google This

18. " We are starting to see unique approaches to this research, as scientists are learning more about how alcohol and drugs interact with brain chemistry, and we are learning that there might be similarities between how alcohol and drug dependence interact with the brain."

Source:   Sloves, Harold. "Drug Treatment for Drug Addiction: Surmounting the Barriers" Behavioral Health Management 20.4 July 1 2000: 42 Google This

19. " A similar approach could enable scientists to sneak medications past the formidable blood-brain barrier."

Source:   TRAVIS, JOHN. "Loosen Up" Science News 157.17 Apr. 22 2000: 266 Google This

20. "... on the brain that may help explain why individuals persist in these behaviors despite the negative consequences." In the study, the scientists enlisted 15 active cocaine abusers and 15 healthy individuals who have never used the drug."

Source:   . "Study shows cocaine abuse impact on thought-processing" Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly 16.45 Nov. 22 2004: 3-4 Google This

21. " Williams argues that to meet the thinking challenges of the new millennium we will need to cultivate a mind-set that will enable us to create new symbols and revise old ones that may be inappropriate."

Source:   LEVINSON, MARTIN H. "New Thinking for a New Millennium: The Processes and Applicationof Abstracting" ETC.: A Review of General Semantics 57.2 June 22 2000: 248

22. " When the brain is trying to make a decision, it looks in the canister related to the topic to learn how we feel and think and uses those ideas to decide."

Source:   CLARK, TIMOTHY. "Emotional Quotient Management as a Dynamic Approach to Challenges" AORN Journal 70.2 Aug. 1 1999: 277 Google This

23. " However, some scientists think that NSAIDs might help prevent the inflammation found in the brains of people with AD. Scientists advise against taking NSAIDs to prevent AD based on these results alone."

Source:   . "Medications for Alzheimer's Disease: Research Update" Behavioral Health Management 19.2 Mar. 1 1999: 37-38 Google This

24. " Although they did not understand all of the reasons for such an approach, these low-income mothers knew as well as experienced social scientists that knowledge is a necessary but not sufficient predictor of behavior change."

Source:   Kelly, Nancy R.,Groff, Janet Y. "Exploring Barriers to Utilization of Poison Centers: A Qualitative Study of Mothers Attending an Urban Women, Infants, and Children Clinic" Pediatrics 106.1 July 1 2000: 199

25. "... it. In the hands of discourse analysts, new historians, new novelists, and post-structuralists, however ill-assorted they may seem, the topic of realism opens more interesting problems than those familiar ones invoked by..."

Source:   ERMARTH, ELIZABETH DEEDS. "ALL IS TRUE: THE CLAIMS AND STRATEGIES OF REALIST FICTION" Journal of English and Germanic Philology 98.1 Jan. 1 1999: 136-137 Google This

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