HEALTH & SCIENCE
Neuroscience is uncovering techniques to prevent cognitive decline.
By Kathleen Phalen Tomaselli, AMNews correspondent. Nov. 17, 2008.
The brain — containing 100 billion neurons, 900 billion glial cells, 100 trillion branches and 1,000 trillion receptors — reacts to stimuli in a series of electrical bursts, spanning a complex map of connections. Whether calculating an algorithmic [...]