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Study uses brain scans to discover how children 'read' faces
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 20, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Oxford University scientists are using brain-scanning technology to understand how we learn to recognise and 'read' faces as children.
Twitter to overhaul user list seen as partisan
Nov 17, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Social-networking site Twitter plans to end a service that links prominent message posters with new users, a service that was criticized in California because of perceived unfairness toward GOP gubernatorial ...
Golden State: Yes, No or Maybe?
Nov 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Dan Schnur, director of the College's Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics, analyzes the findings from the first of six USC College of Letters, Arts & Sciences/Los Angeles Times statewide ...
Theory about long and short-term memory questioned
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 09, 2009 |
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The long-held theory that our brains use different mechanisms for forming long-term and short-term memories has been challenged by new research from UCL, published today in PNAS.
Sights and sounds of emotion trigger big brain responses
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 02, 2009 |
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Researchers at the University of York have identified a part of the brain that responds to both facial and vocal expressions of emotion.
Getting enough sleep? They aren't in West Virginia
Oct 29, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Sleepless in Seattle? Hardly. West Virginia is where people are really staying awake, according to the first government study to monitor state-by-state differences in sleeplessness.
Twitter user list favors Dems in Calif. gov race
Oct 27, 2009 |
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(AP) -- When people sign up for Twitter, the popular social-networking site presents a list of suggested users to follow, driving significant traffic to sports figures, celebrities, politicians and other prominent posters.
Experts summarize state of the science in autism disorders
Oct 14, 2009 |
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Scientific understanding and medical treatments for autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) have advanced significantly over the past several years, but much remains to be done, say experts from the Center for Autism Research at ...
Study: The new buzz on detecting tinnitus
Oct 03, 2009 |
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It's a ringing, a buzzing, a hissing or a clicking - and the patient is the only one who can hear it. Complicating matters, physicians can rarely pinpoint the source of tinnitus, a chronic ringing of the head or ears that ...
Anthropologist researches evolution of Darwin’s theory
Sep 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- New research by University of Notre Dame anthropologist Agustin Fuentes, published recently in the European journal Anthropology Today, states that although Darwin’s basic ideas still form t ...
Tech's new love
Aug 21, 2009 |
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There was a time in Silicon Valley when the political game was practically sneered upon.
Neural networks mapped in dementia patients
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Aug 20, 2009 |
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Different types of dementia show dissimilar changes in brain activity. A network mapping technique described in the open access journal BMC Neuroscience has been applied to EEG data obtained from patients with Alzheimer's diseas ...
San Diego Zoo panda gives birth to 5th cub
Aug 05, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Prized San Diego Zoo panda Bai Yun gave birth Wednesday to her fifth cub after a 130-day pregnancy that zookeepers said ended with an apparently pleasant labor.
Government-backed youth program pilot didn't reduce teenage pregnancies
Jul 08, 2009 |
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A government-backed youth development pilot programme in England, aimed at reducing teenage pregnancies, drunkenness or cannabis use, didn't reduce teenage pregnancies and other outcomes and might have increased pregnancies, ...
Plant disease hits eastern US veggies early, hard
Jul 03, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Tomato plants have been removed from stores in half a dozen states as a destructive and infectious plant disease makes its earliest and most widespread appearance ever in the eastern United States.
