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The human brain, as the seat of mental life—from the most complicated intellectual processes down to routine and unconscious bodily control—is necessarily enormously complex. The largest part ...

In the first weeks after birth, brain volume is typically about a third of what it will be in adulthood. By age 3, it will have expanded to about 80 percent of adult size. While most of the brain ...

Thus, the mantra 'time is brain' is overly simplistic. Temporal features of collateral circulation, such as speed and phasing of recruitment, must be monitored with serial assessments within an ...