News tagged with computer therapy

Project to improve radiotherapy planning

A collaborative project between physicists, oncologists and computer scientists at Oxford and Cambridge Universities, launched last month, will develop improved tools for the planning of high precision radiotherapy. ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

When the ladybug has to count her spots

About two percent of all children suffer from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), which consists of obsessive thoughts and acts. Obsessive thoughts are intrusive thoughts such as fear or contamination, injury ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 01, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Computerized anxiety therapy found helpful in small trial

A small clinical trial suggests that cognitive bias modification (CBM), a potential anxiety therapy that is delivered entirely on a computer, may be about as effective as in-person therapy or drugs for treating social anxiety ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Sep 14, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

One drug, many targets: Finding molecular targets of an HIV drug used in cancer therapy

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego and Hunter College of the City University of New York (CUNY) have identified potential human molecular targets of the anti-HIV drug Nelfinavir, which may explain why ...

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Apr 28, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Predicting learning using brain analysis

(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team of scientists has developed a way to predict how much a person can learn, based on studies at UC Santa Barbara's Brain Imaging Center.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Apr 19, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researcher creates patented personalized therapy that causes cancer cells to kill themselves

A Wayne State University School of Medicine physician-researcher has developed a personalized therapy to treat a wide range of cancers. The treatment is based on a naturally occurring human enzyme that has been genetically ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Feb 28, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 2

Practice more important than age in learning to use computer mouse

Children as young as 5 years old can learn how to use a computer mouse, new research suggests.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Feb 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Computational feat speeds finding of genes to milliseconds instead of years

Like a magician who says, "Pick a card, any card," Stanford University computer scientist Debashis Sahoo, PhD, seemed to be offering some kind of trick when he asked researchers at the Stanford Institute for Stem Cell Biology ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Mar 15, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (36) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Treating lazy eyes with a joystick

Four percent of all children suffer from amblyopia, better known as "lazy eye syndrome." Traditional treatment for the condition requires the use of an eye patch, often for months at a time, before the eye is corrected. This ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jun 22, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0