And when you're a teenager and your brain is growing so rapidly, they say the probability is very, very high that you'll lose a sliver of your long-term memory permanently if smoking this high THC marijuana, even just smoking once or twice a week.
Nestled deep within a brain region that processes memory is a sliver of tissue that continually sprouts brand-new neurons, at least into late adulthood.
The celibate routine of weekdays spent bagging groceries at the Piggly Wiggly and Sundays spent in church cannot erase the childhood memory of a supernatural sliver of an afternoon with Ruby.
All 11 of Japan's big chip makers joined the venture, pooling resources to develop manufacturing technologies for "systems on chips," which combine functions like processing and memory on a single sliver of silicon.
What Rambus had been seeking was a sliver of what in 2000 was a $30 billion market for memory chips.
Her physical absence slowly eclipsed her memory, but I looked to that waning sliver of light to nourish me -- part daughter, part orphan.
The film is absent anything resembling a conventional scene, consisting instead of fragments, slivers, snippets of recorded memory linked by uninspired voice-over of the "I spent 30 years not living life" and "Where did I go wrong?" variety.
The researchers recorded the firing activity of about 100 neurons per person; the recorded neurons were concentrated in and around the hippocampus, a sliver of tissue deep in the brain known to be critical to forming memories.
Previous research has shown that regions of the cortex, the thinking and planning part of the brain, communicate during deep sleep with a sliver of tissue deeper in the brain called the hippocampus, which records each day's memories.
It offered a sliver of optimism.
