"If you think of the brain's infrastructure as a city, the white matter is like the roads, highways and freeways that connect one place to another," Monje said.
To determine the effect of the established polytrauma/traumatic brain injury (TBI) infrastructure on immediate posttreatment functional gains, the long-term sustainability of any gains, and participation-related community reintegration outcomes in a baseline cohort of patients 8 years postadmission.
The HBP is developing toward a European research infrastructure advancing brain research, medicine, and brain-inspired information technology.
Of course, science in Africa still faces huge challenges of deep inequalities, under-investment, weak infrastructure and brain drain.
Through a study of these brain systems, the neural infrastructure of human and animal affective consciousness may be revealed.
The cartels, particularly Sinaloa, cook meth on an industrial scale that would not be possible in the U.S. In a 2008 report (later WikiLeaked), titled "Chemical City," the U.S. consulate in Guadalajara listed the factors that made Jalisco a major center of crystal-meth production: "geography, availability of materials, adequate infrastructure, and brain power".
"There has been a lack of funding, a brain drain and health infrastructure has been destroyed in Libya, Yemen and Syria.
Declaring Sunday's vote a "sham," the United States is now threatening sanctions on Venezuela's all-important oil sector, which is already reeling from falling output, a brain-drain and creaking infrastructure.
