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Students are neither left nor right brained: how some early childhood educators get this ‘neuromyth’ and others wrong
Understanding how the brain functions is important for teachers. We surveyed more than 500 early childhood educators about their neuroscience knowledge.
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Types of Neurons and Their Function
Motor neurons can be subdivided into lower motor neurons and upper motor neurons located in the brain and spinal cord. The differences between upper and lower motor neurons involve the level of ...
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Alysa Liu becomes first American woman in 19 years to win figure skating world title
Alysa Liu never expected to win the world championships. After all, the 19-year-old figure skater retired from the sport three years ago, only returning to training again a year ago and ...
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Alysa Liu is first U.S. woman to win figure skating world title in 19 years
BOSTON — Alysa Liu is the first U.S. women’s singles figure skater to win a world title in 19 years, capping a comeback season after a two-year retirement. Liu, 19, had the top short program and free ...
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Figure skater Maxim Naumov reveals parents switched to doomed American Airlines flight at last minute
A 23-year-old figure skater who lost both his mother and father in the mid-air disaster over the Potomac River revealed Thursday his ex-Olympian parents changed their flight at the last minute.
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Why the Human Brain May Power the Next Tech Revolution
The way neurons inside the human brain function and communicate is being used as a roadmap for creating new artificial systems. But more strikingly, scientists now are trying to merge human ...
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Figure skating remembers its fallen and a dad holds it together at world championships
Advertisement But when the 2025 World Figure Skating Championships were getting underway Wednesday at TD Garden, it was just the dad, Doug, standing under a spotlight and speaking words that were ...
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The Elite Skater Who Kept Cracking Under Pressure—Until She Rewired Her Brain
For years, Amber Glenn was one of the top figure skaters in the U. S.—and also its most inconsistent. She was the popular and prodigious talent who could cruise through her practices and charge ...
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American Alysa Liu comes out of retirement to top women’s short program at World Figure Skating Championships
At this time last year, Alysa Liu was a student at UCLA and a retired figure skater. On Wednesday, she was in a very different place. Returning to the World Championships for the first time since ...
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Atlas of brain's mitochondria reveals high cognition areas supplied with more energy
Such scans would enable scientists to explore relationships between mitochondrial function and brain activity during cognition, development, disease states, and psychological states. MitoBrainMap ...
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A map of mitochondrial biology reveals the energy landscape of the human brain
In the brain, energy transformation is crucial for normal brain function, cognition and consciousness, and its disruption is a potential driver of neurological and psychiatric illnesses.