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The health ministry has advised women to delay pregnancy for two years amid growing fears that in Brazil thousands of cases of microcephaly – a congenital abnormality which causes the infant to develop an abnormally small head and brain – are linked to the Zika epidemic.

Defects of cholesterol homeostasis in the adult brain are linked to neurodegenerative diseases like Niemann-Pick type C disease or Alzheimer's disease (Madra and Sturley, 2010; Block et al., 2010; Di Paolo and Kim, 2011; Wang et al., 2011).

Gliosis, neuronal loss, and atrophy of specific areas of the brain are linked to epilepsy but it is unclear if epilepsy causes these changes or if these changes result in epilepsy.

Specifically, extensive studies in voles have shown that species differences, as well as individual variation in AVPR1A expression in the brain, are linked to the diversity in social behavior between subspecies (Donaldson and Young, 2008; Lim et al., 2004; Pitkow et al., 2001; Young and Wang, 2004).

It is well known that depressive symptoms are associated with dysfunction of brain monoaminergic neurons, and that the levels of serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine [5-HT]) released in the brain are linked to a decrease in responsiveness to anti-depressants [ 10, 11].

As greater endorphin activity in the brain is linked to higher pain tolerance, each participant was asked to squat with their back against a wall and their knees at right-angles to their body - a simple but uncomfortable exercise.

They saw something similar in the reward system the amount of reward activity in the brain was linked to how cute a person rated an image (on a scale of 1 to 10), and how overwhelmed they were.

In 1709-10 Petit and Mistichelli determined that damage to one side of the brain was linked to lost control of movement on the opposite side of the body [1].

The entry of Trp into the brain is linked to its concentration relative to other LNAAs and the main determinant of brain serotonin concentration is a high plasma Trp LNAA [ 17].

Those and other scientific findings show that the mind brain mechanisms present complex network, in which the brain is linked to the dynamics and entity called 'mind' that mediates subjective mental experience [ 26, 27].

About a century ago, sex differences in the brain were linked to presumed differences in intelligence and were used to legitimize a diminished role for women in society [ 1].