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PC program may help teach new surgeons
Sep 22, 2008 |
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New computer game technology can help educate otolaryngology medical students who don't have any anatomical knowledge or surgical experience, according to new research presented at the 2008 American Academy of Otolaryngology ...
Analysis supports use of surgery to treat medication-resistant epilepsy
Dec 02, 2008 |
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Persons with temporal lobe epilepsy who do not respond to medication could receive a substantial gain in life expectancy and quality of life by undergoing surgery of the temporal lobe part of the brain, according to an analysis ...
Probing question: What is 'Talk and Die' Syndrome?
Jun 25, 2009 |
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Ah, summer! Season of baseball, bike rides, barbecues -- and head injuries. There’s nothing like warm weather to get people outside and active, and nothing like activity to fill up an emergency room.
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.
Measuring brain atrophy in patients with mild cognitive impairment
Jun 16, 2009 |
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Scientists at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have shown that a fully automated procedure called Volumetric MRI - which measures the "memory centers" of the brain and compares them to expected size ...
Guam rhino beetles got rhythm
Apr 14, 2009 |
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In May 2008 the island of Guam became a living laboratory for scientists as they attached acoustic equipment to coconut trees in order to listen for rhinoceros beetles. A grant from USDA IPM allowed Richard Mankin, a recognized ...
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.
Study reveals clues to how we forget over short-term
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 12, 2008 |
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Even though forgetting is such a common occurrence, scientists have not reached a consensus as to how it happens. One theory is that information simply decays from our memory—we forget things because too much time has passed. ...
Doing what the brain does -- how computers learn to listen
Aug 14, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- We see, hear and feel, and make sense of countless diverse, quickly changing stimuli in our environment seemingly without effort. However, doing what our brains do with ease is often an impossible task for ...
New technique allows simultaneous tracking of gene expression and movement
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Dec 16, 2008 |
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Flies expressing green fluorescent protein (GFP) in their retina cells or other tissues can be tracked by specially modified video cameras, creating a real time computer record of movement and gene expression. The new technique, ...
Is Your Cognitive And Physical Functioning Ok? A New Instrument To Check It
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 03, 2009 |
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A group of Italian and American investigators has published a new instrument for assessing cognitive and physical functioning (the Massachusetts General Hospital Cognitive and Physical Functioning Questionnaire, CPFQ), in ...
Seeking efficiency, scientists run visualizations directly on supercomputers
Technology / Computer Sciences
Jul 30, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- If you wanted to perform a single run of a current model of the explosion of a star on your home computer, it would take more than three years just to download the data. In order to do cutting-edge ...
Neuroscientists identify physiological link between trial and error and learning
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 25, 2009 |
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Learning through trial and error often requires subjects to establish new physiological links by using information about trial outcome to strengthen correct responses or modify incorrect responses. New findings, which appear ...
Laser-created temporal lens could lead to movies of molecular processes
Jun 29, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Finding a way to observe and record the behavior of matter at the molecular level has long been a holy grail among physicists. That ability could open the door to a wide range of applications ...
Compressing photonic signals for greater bandwidth
Nov 03, 2009 |
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Cornell researchers have developed an ingenious method to time-compress optical signals. The process could enable optical communication systems to carry many more bits per second or could also be used to generate ...
