They used a technique called transcranial direct current stimulation, or tDCS. If you pass a weak electrical current through part of the brain, it temporarily and safely disrupts neural activity.
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Car sales in India have remained weak in the current fiscal year ending this month due to higher ownership costs and an economic slowdown.
However, in the current weak economic climate, firms with lots of spare capacity find it hard to pass on costs, so rising labour costs are more likely to squeeze profits than to push up inflation.
"Due to the current weak market, we wanted to offer attractive prices to our customers to boost their morale, " the spokesman said, explaining the decision to cut its car prices despite an increase in input costs.
"But any disruption to business is the very last thing that the UK economy needs in its current extremely weak state, " he added.
This, more than weak growth or the current level of public debt, is what has given the major ratings agencies cause for concern.
They now threaten the weak interim government's current seat, north-west at Baidoa.
Those two charts showed that the current recovery was very weak compared to the boom of the early 1980s.
First-order U.S. growth solutions rest on clear decisions by the President to end the weak-dollar policy and substantially reduce current and projected federal spending.
High interest rates--along with wide fiscal and current account deficits and a weak global economy--have squeezed economic expansion to its lowest rates in a decade.
The current policy of depending on weak, nondemocratic regimes to provide base access is doomed to failure, in part because it aligns the U.S. with leaders who lack legitimacy.
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"A current of moving air moves a weak little old mosquito far and wide, " he said.
While current political discussions focus on our weak economy and drastically underfunded military, the debate on energy independence has stalled.
Current promised Social Security benefits are weak and marginal compared to what would be gained through a lifetime of real savings and investment.
High interest rates along with wide fiscal and current-account deficits and a weak global economy have squeezed economic expansion to its lowest rates in a decade.
In the current gloomy investment outlook, with weak stockmarkets and low interest rates, tobacco companies' shares offer temptingly high yields, as do the bonds that American states have issued, backed by the income they are due to receive from their big tobacco settlement.
But rates will only be held at current low levels if the economy remains weak.
The carmaker predicted that profit in the current quarter would be unchanged from a weak fourth quarter in 2010.
The issue is whether the current premier is being deft or merely weak.
Mireya Moscoso, the current president, is widely regarded as weak and ineffectual, and her party's candidate is trailing badly.
The result of robust exports and weak imports linked to anemic domestic spending is its perennial current account surpluses, which, along with earlier high saving by households and now by businesses, allow it to finance its huge government deficits internally, with foreigners owning only 5%.
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And, in the current economic environment with slowdown in Europe, weak macro economic environment in the U.S. and slowing growth in emerging markets like China and India, many in the airline industry anticipate low sales for these super jumbos to continue over the near term.
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The blue-chip benchmark retreated in previous sessions amid weak job-market and manufacturing data, closing at a current-year low on Monday.
But if growth remains very weak despite the recent rise in asset prices, then the current market optimism may prove short-lived.
The firm said it expected its profits to rise to 50bn yen in the current financial year, with the yen forecast to remain weak.
But paradoxically, should the euro have a troubled birth and prove to be a weak currency, that could also be troublesome: sterling's current strength might then persist, forcing up the relative costs of manufacturing in Britain.
Mr Cable warned the UK could not blame its current flagging growth on the turmoil in the eurozone or a weak US economy as many of its problems were "home-grown".
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Despite government efforts to boost growth, the global situation is so dire that New Zealand's economy is still likely to remain weak in 2009 and 2010 the Economist Intelligence Unit's current forecast is for 1.1% GDP growth next year, and 1.3% the following year.
With unemployment remaining stubbornly high, a massive inventory of homes stuck in the foreclosure pipeline of many big banks, and gas prices pushed up by record oil and commodity prices, economists are beginning to revise their economic forecasts and are questioning how much longer the consumer can continue to bear the current environment. (Read Analysts Slash Jobs Forecast Amid Weak Data).
"Our government's current executive order to halt the military commissions makes us foolish and weak, and invites more attacks, " said Melissa Long, whose boyfriend was a first responder killed in New York.
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