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25 November 2008

The journal “Brain and Language“chooses the article “Cortical operational synchrony during audio-visual speech integration” published in Volume 85, Issue 2, May 2003, Pages 297-312 as a KEY ARTICLE REFLECTING THE JOURNAL'S NEW DIRECTION.

25 October 2008

The Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis awards Dr(s). Fingelkurts with the Henry Guze Award for the article “Cortex functional connectivity as a neurophysiological correlate of hypnosis: an EEG case study” published in Neuropsychologia, 2007, V. 45. No 7. P. 1452-1462. The article was selected as the BEST RESEARCH PAPER.

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Curiosities of the Brain

How fast does the Brain develop?

Brain volume doubles between birth and six months of age, triples from birth to two and will reach adult volume at around five years of age.
What Brain cannot do?

It cannot feel pain. The brain can feel pain from all over the body, but not within itself. The brain cannot store oxygen. The brain cannot store glucose (blood sugar)
Should you make the Brain drunk?

Very low doses can have the positive effect of reducing damage caused by mental or emotional stress and can actually improve response times. In sustained high doses alcohol “shrinks” the brain that results in cognitive impairment. Foetal alcohol exposure has multiple bad effects on infant brain development and represents a leading cause of mental retardation.