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NFL to ask its players to donate brains for study Park Hills Daily Journal Sat, 02 Jan 2010 05:04 AM PST The NFL is partnering with Boston University brain researchers who have been critical of the league’s stance on concussions, The Associated Press learned Sunday. Depression Saps Endurance Of The Brain's Reward Circuitry Medical News Today Sat, 02 Jan 2010 03:31 AM PST A new study at the University of Wisconsin-Madison suggests that depressed patients are unable to sustain activity in brain areas related to positive emotion. The study challenges previous notions that individuals with depression show less brain activity in areas associated with positive emotion. Instead, the new data suggest similar initial levels of activity, but an inability to sustain them ... Microcephaly Genes Associated With Human Brain Size Medical News Today Sat, 02 Jan 2010 03:30 AM PST A group of Norwegian and American researchers have shown that common variations in genes associated with microcephaly - a neuro-developmental disorder in which brain size is dramatically reduced - may explain differences in brain size in healthy individuals as well as in patients with neurological and psychiatric disorders... Maine to Consider Putting Warnings on Cellphones The Sarasota Herald-Tribune Sat, 02 Jan 2010 02:38 AM PST KATIE ZEZIMA Under a state bill, cellphone buyers would be warned that they may cause brain cancer, despite conflicting evidence.

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