Exposure to loud noises can definitely produce a partial or complete loss of hearing, depending on the intensity, duration, and frequency composition of the noise.
Schizophrenia is thought to be at least partly inherited, so the siblings of people who have the condition have a slightly increased risk of also developing the disorder.
One part of "Anthill", by the world's leading myrmecologist, demonstrates that in Mr. Wilson, ants have found not only their Darwin but also their Homer.
Maturation of the frontal lobes of the brain continues throughout early childhood, and this part of the brain may be critical for remembering particular episodes in ways that can be retrieved later.
Banking operations, which comprise both retail and commercial banking, showed 1.6 billion euros in underlying pretax profit, with 944 million euros of that coming from retail.
For the most part, these huge gains reflected a dramatic rise in the super-elite's share of pretax income. But there were also large tax cuts favoring the wealthy.
Several states still permitted them, and such action could have prevented far more abortions than the partial-birth bill, but the anti-abortion forces in Congress killed it.