Andrew Howard as the intellectually arrogant but impoverished eternal student Trofimov (who tutored Ranevskaya's son) gives a darkly funny portrait of a brain feeding on itself.
Neuroscientists used to think that glia, which means "glue" in Greek, served merely as a support system, filling space in the brain, feeding neurons and cleaning up debris.
In doing so, we elaborate on how known signals emanating from the reorganized gut, including peptide hormones and microbiota products, impinge on newly mapped homeostatic and hedonic brain feeding circuits.
Sometimes a path became a blind alley, but Durning had set herself the task of non-stop speaking, so she couldn't pause; if she got stuck, she repeated a word or a phrase ("there is no truth," "he's dead," "who?") until something freed her, or her brain fed her something else, and she carried on.
1938 Brain Needs Sugar, Study Says BALTIMORE — Sugar is the only food upon which the brain feeds, and this and other chemicals in the body are the substances that control the frequency of brain waves, scientists were informed at the opening session of the annual convention of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology.
Definitions of consciousness usually start with the supposition that it is a property of a brain fed, moment by moment, with inputs from the sense organs via a nervous system.
Cloned Santa skin is ripped off, skulls crushed, eyes knifed out, brains fed on.
If they are not dead yet, they are certainly darn close: accumulations of failed organs supporting permanently unresponsive brains, fed through stomach tubes, hydrated via IVs, often with the help of artificial lungs and artificial kidneys and, increasingly, ventricular assist devices to replace damaged hearts.
It was the same old CNN debate broadcast, split screens and the live undecided voter brain feed.
My name is Valerie and I have a judgmental brain feed that reads like a cross between Mean Girls, The Hangover, and Heathers.
Some of them offered up some pretty dumb ideas, and even the ones that seemed reasonable to me were mostly just as arbitrary as the ones that clearly were the brain feed of someone who's been too long in a game where even the legends could be the faceless guy beside you at the bar crying into his shoulder bag.
