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As a boy, Henry had cracked his skull in an accident and soon began having seizures, blacking out and losing control of bodily functions.
Partial lobotomies had been used for decades to treat mental patients based on the notion that mental functions were strictly localized to corresponding brain areas.
Though different areas of the skin have different characteristics, much of this surface performs similar functions, such as sweating, feeling heat and cold, and growing hair.
But sometimes a wound penetrates into the dermis, which contains blood vessels and the various glands and nerve endings that enable the skin's many functions.
So cells must constantly keep entropy in check by using energy to maintain their molecules in the very complicated formations necessary for biological functions to occur.
And we do teach our kids how the human body works, we teach them how the combustion engine functions and we even tell them that if you want to really be an astronaut you can become one.
We could come up with an extremely complex algorithm using random number generators, chaotic functions, and fuzzy logic to generate a sequence of musical notes in a way that would be impossible to track.
It's used in three ways: about 10% enables digestion, about 20% fuels physical activity, and the biggest chunk, around 70%, supports the basic functions of our organs and tissues.
Chronic stress, like being overworked or having arguments at home, can affect brain size, its structure, and how it functions, right down to the level of your genes.
While these functions are essential to our survival, we need to compensate for the fluid loss.
Oddly enough, those questions have the same general answer: emergence, or the spontaneous creation of sophisticated behaviors and functions from large groups of simple elements.
As we get older, stem cells decrease in number and tend to lose their regenerative potential, affecting tissue renewal and maintenance of our organs original functions.
One plausible candidate is the prefrontal cortex, which is involved in all complex cognitive functions.
Together, they form the gut microbiome, a rich ecosystem that performs a variety of functions in our bodies.
In addition, older cells don't perform their functions as well as young ones.
Once in the nervous system, lead mimics and disrupts the normal functions of calcium, causing damages ranging from learning disabilities to high blood pressure.
The left and the right sides of the brain do control different body functions, such as movement and sight.
Later research showed that one side of the brain is more active than the other for some functions.
In our species' struggle to find our place in the universe, we may not always have the time necessary for the natural evolution of extra functions for survival on non-Earth planets.
It's a wearable device that functions as your room key, your park ticket, and your ID and wallet when you're on park property.
Units that have multi-modality functions have modular components.
Will we all become slaves to algorithms and utility functions?
What that means is that every single aspect of your human existence outside of your basic bodily functions is in some way touched by media.
Take, for example, a credit card company that's opened up a center that functions as a hub for academics, for NGOs and governments, all working together.
So this functions as your hearing aid and also as your phone.
So you put human growth hormone in, the person grows taller, or you put x in and the person gets fatter or loses metabolism or does a whole series of things, but you're altering the functions in a fundamental way.
Gender as it functions today is a grave injustice.
As with any other workout, disciplined, structured practice in playing music strengthens those brain functions, allowing us to apply that strength to other activities.
And, indeed, musicians exhibit enhanced memory functions, creating, storing, and retrieving memories more quickly and efficiently.
Brain patterns are important for us because based on them we can build models for the computers, and based on these models computers can recognize how well our brain functions.
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