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The Gut Brain

Posted on28. Dec, 2009 by .

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Bruni’s  comments: In 1917, German scientist Paul Trendelenburg huddled over a test tube in his three-story laboratory, prodding a small section of tissue submerged in the body’s natural juices. Forced to stay home from the war because of tuberculosis, this budding pharmacologist poured his energies into designing the experiment that would prove what his scientific [...]

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The Activity and Power of our Brain

Posted on10. Dec, 2008 by .

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1000 trillion connections so they estimate… Our brain is made up of 100 billion nerve cells called neurons so Scientists tell us.  A nerve impulse is a wave of electrical activity that passes from one end of a neuron to the other.  Neurons communicate with each other at special junctions called synapses.  The signal may [...]

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