For purely end-of-day, exhausted, brain-shutdown catharsis, I'll hit either C-Span's BookTV tapings or Olbermann's ESPN rants.
Sudden death, a mysterious and devastating outcome of epilepsy, could result from a brain stem shutdown following a seizure, researchers report today in Science Translational Medicine.
Nine of 18 mice had what's called "spreading depolarization" in their brain stem essentially, a shutdown of electric activity that sweeps across the critical brain region and silences neurons.
(8) Furthermore, as a model agent, As2O3 causes significant vascular shutdown in brain, mammary and gastric cancers.
Examining the results in further detail, the lower overlap between the brain's correlate of shutdown dissociation and PTSD symptom severity for neutral stimuli suggest a qualitatively differential modulation of the processing for the two clinical syndromes.
The resolution, which passed with heavy Tea Party support, calls for a partial shutdown of the brain, leaving the medulla and cerebellum, sometimes referred to as the "reptilian brain," up and running.
A high concordance of brain correlations was found for shutdown dissociation and PTSD severity in the unpleasant condition, but this overlap was much lower in the neutral condition.
In these cases, the body retains water, particularly affecting the brain cells, and leading to the shutdown of primary bodily functions such as breathing and heartbeat.
Even though you are likely going to be in that position where your brain seems to have gone into shutdown mode, it hasn't.
Examination of the baby monkey brains revealed hydranencephaly, which resulted from a vascular shutdown predominantly when carried out during earlier gestational age.
