But more importantly, there is the possibility of freeing the brain, making it serve your desire for personal freedom.
But ultrasound does now offer at least the possibility of manipulating the brains of people suffering from mental illnesses without resorting to drugs or electrodes.
In case of our family, there is the additional possibility that in the brain of the unaffected carriers alternative splicing of the INI1-mutant allele transcript, leading to absence of INI1 protein in the brain tumours of the patients, does not occur.
The possibilities of what the brain can do to heal itself are tantalizing.
One of the authors of this article (Stuart Hameroff) recently gave a TEDx talk in Tucson where he made the point that critics of the possibility of consciousness outside the brain cannot explain consciousness inside the brain.
These results allowed us to exclude the possibility of contamination of the brain and lung tissues under investigation with HMPV sequences from another source.
Other (perhaps synergistic) possibilities of the altered brain activation, however, may exist.
As a result, acute infection of the mastoid air cells resulting in a dangerous mastoid abscess with the possibility of meningitis, brain abscess, septicemia, infection of the labyrinth, or facial nerve paralysis, complicating an acute infection of the middle-ear cavity, has become rare.
This raised the possibility of reverse brain drain, as immigrants who came to the United States for advanced studies might decide to return to their home countries.
Dr. J. William Langston, who is president of The Parkinson's Institute in Sunnyvale, Calif., said that while he was excited by the possibility of creating brain cells from bone marrow, he wondered if the new cells would be specific enough to treat a disease like Parkinson's.
Researchers have identified a specific spot in the brain that handles the task of telling a lie, raising the possibility of using brain scans to create a more accurate lie detector test.
