News tagged with left hemisphere


Delusions associated with consistent pattern of brain injury

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 13, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A new study provides a novel theory for how delusions arise and why they persist. NYU Langone Medical Center researcher Orrin Devinsky, MD, performed an in-depth analysis of patients with certain delusions and brain disorders ...





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How is our left brain is different from our right?

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 17, 2008 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (16) | comments 1

Since the historical discovery of the speech center in the left cortex in 150 years ago, functional differences between left and right hemisphere have been well known; language is mainly handled by left hemisphere, while ...


Scientists reveal secret of girl with 'all seeing eye'

Scientists reveal secret of girl with 'all seeing eye'

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jul 20, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (59) | comments 6

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have discovered how a 10-year-old girl born with half a brain is able to see normally through one eye. The youngster, from Germany, has both fields of vision in one eye and is the ...


Southern Hemisphere Ants Richer and More Diversified

Southern Hemisphere Ants Richer and More Diversified

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 06, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

There are fewer species of ants in the northern hemisphere than in the southern hemisphere. This is the conclusion drawn by an international team of scientists that have studied 1,003 local ant assemblages ...


Mars

Mars magnetic field mystery explained

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 25, 2008 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (30) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- So much attention has been paid to the similarities and differences between Earth and Mars that we often look to the ancient red planet for signposts in our own planet's future. A U of T physicist, ...


3.2-Million-Year Temperature History from Tiny Fossils

3.2-Million-Year Temperature History from Tiny Fossils

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Aug 05, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (12) | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- People often talk about greenhouse gases and their effect on the earth's climate as if those effects were new. But greenhouse gases have been around for hundreds of millennia, playing a key ...


Brain detects happiness more quickly than sadness

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jun 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Our brains get a first impression of people's overriding social signals after seeing their faces for only 100 milliseconds (0.1 seconds). Whether this impression is correct, however, is another question. Now an international ...


It's all in the footwork: New research sheds light on parrot intelligence

It's all in the footwork: New research sheds light on parrot intelligence

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Sep 07, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (10) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- You can tell how smart a parrot is by watching what it does with its feet, according to a new study by Macquarie University researchers.


The auroras in the Northern and the Southern hemispheres are not identical

The auroras in the Northern and the Southern hemispheres are not identical (w/ Video)

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jul 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 12

In a Nature letter published July 23, 2009, Norwegian researchers present evidence that the auroras in the Northern and the Southern hemispheres can be totally asymmetric. These findings contradict the co ...


Cassini Finds Titan's Clouds Hang on to Summer

Cassini Finds Titan's Clouds Hang on to Summer

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jun 03, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Cloud chasers studying Saturn's moon Titan say its clouds form and move much like those on Earth, but in a much slower, more lingering fashion.


Cyclone Anja hits wind shear, weakens drastically

Cyclone Anja hits wind shear, weakens drastically

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

This morning, Cyclone Anja was a powerful Category 4 cyclone on the Saffir-Simpson scale. Wind shear has now giving Anja a strong "punch in the gut" as the storm has weakened to a Category 1 cyclone.



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