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Adjective for the left hemisphere of the brain in most righties, because it controls speech & other functions

This structure seen here, which includes the medulla, transmits information from the spinal cord

DNA co-discoverer Francis Crick shocked Freudians by saying these are just the brain's nightly housecleaning

In 1956 George Miller defined it as holding 5 to 9 chunks of information -- what category did you pick again?

P.E.T., the positron emission type of this kind of imaging, can identify the focal points of seizures

This "prefrontal" medical procedure involves the destruction of sections of the brain's cortex

The symbol of this radioactive element is Pu & it sounds like it's named after Mickey Mouse's dog

The leatherback variety of this reptile is one of the few animals that primarily eat jellyfish

The process by which neutral atoms become electrically charged is called this

This German-born American physicist won the 1921 Nobel Prize for Physics