Such neglect is traced to associational and story-based thinking, while true rational judgment requires comparative thinking. Researchers say the findings add more support to the idea that physical and psychological factors conspire to raise an individual's heart disease risk. Around the world more than 200 million people have the disease, but if sufferers are found and treated early, the numbers of future fractures in those people could be halved. The elaboration and refinement of neural circuitry continues to a lesser extent in the adult brain. The process of growth, known as plasticity, is believed to underlie the brain's capacity to control behavior, including learning and memory.
Plasticity occurs when neurons are stimulated by events, or information, from the environment.
The researchers say finding the gene, which is expressed by the tongue s taste cells, opens an important research pathway that may help answer fundamental questions such as how the brain perceives sweet taste and why molecules with dramatically different chemical structures can taste sweet. Discovery of the candidate sweet taste receptor adds to a repertoire of recently discovered receptors thought to be involved in the perception of bitter and umami tastes. We do our best to sort fact from fiction, substantial truth from distortion, half truth and outright lies and 'disinformation'. But, in the flood of information that threatens to sink us all, we struggle to verify and authenticate information. Some of our emails, faxes and letters go unanswered.