Nicotine builds up gradually in smokers’ brains rather than spiking after each puff, according to a study that might help point to new ways to help people quit smoking.
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March 9 2010
Nicotine builds up slowly in the brain
March 9th, 2010 
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March 5 2010
Karl Rove: I wasn’t George Bush’s brain
March 5th, 2010 Tommy 
The Republican strategist who became synonymous with a bare-knuckled brand of politics said Friday that the former president’s critics underestimated his intelligence: “To suggest that I was his brain is derogatory about him.”
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January 29 2010
Scientists Decode Brain Cancer Cell Line (HealthDay)
January 29th, 2010 NIT 
Tags: brain, brain cancer, cancer, cancer cell, cell, Friday, HealthDay, Jan, jan 29, line, news, Read, scientists, U.S.
sequencing of a brain cancer cell line has been performed by U.S.
scientists.
January 20 2010
Why Antidepressants Don't Work for Half of Patients (LiveScience.com)
January 20th, 2010 NIT Tags: antidepressants, brain, brain cells, com, depressed individuals, half, lift, LiveScience, medicines, mice, mood, Read, receptors, rest, scientists, study
get a mood lift. And now scientists think they know why: A study in
mice found receptors on certain brain cells essentially block the
effects of these medicines.
December 8 2009
Lab mice show brain's role in learning, memory
December 8th, 2009 NIT Tags: brain, effects on the brain, family, family friend, father, imprint, inspiration, learning and memory, Li Zuo, memory, neurobiologist, Read, Santa Cruz, son, stroke, uc santa cruz
