Sentences with phrase «deeper than the surrounding area»

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Combining data recorded from football players with computer simulations of the brain, a team working with David Camarillo, an assistant professor of bioengineering, found that concussions and other mild traumatic brain injuries seem to arise when an area deep inside the brain shakes more rapidly and intensely than surrounding areas.

Instead of the brain moving largely in unison, an area deep in the brain called the corpus callosum - which connects the left and right halves of the brain — shakes more rapidly than the surrounding areas, placing significant strain on those tissues.

There are more than 60 square miles of fringing and deep reefs surrounding the islands, and thanks to historically light diver traffic, there are many areas that are rarely visited or even unexplored.