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• Writing in the journal BMC Neuroscience, Kristen Muller-Vahl and her team explained how they used a new technique, Magnetic Transfer Imaging (MTI) to scan the prefrontal areas of the brains of 19 Tourette's sufferers as well as 20 control subjects.
• In particular, Tourette's sufferers showed "significant decreases in grey matter volumes" in some key prefrontal areas, and decreased white matter in others.
• If Jimmy's Advisor had been able to eavesdrop on that thought, a bunch of men in black suits would have dragged him off to the hospital for a prefrontal lobotomy within the hour. —  AnalogSFF,September2008
• It is based on the research of neuroscientist Ryuta Kawashima, who has found that certain activities stimulate the prefrontal cortex of the brain. —  RNews - TOP STORIES
• A significant difference in the search landscape will only come from a major disruption, one that makes users stop, think, and engage their prefrontal cortexes.

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