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Nerve-cell transplants help brain-damaged rats fully recover lost ability to learn

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created 8 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Nerve cells transplanted into brain-damaged rats helped them to fully recover their ability to learn and remember, probably by promoting nurturing, protective growth factors, according to a new study.


Non-invasive technique blocks a conditioned fear in humans

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created 9 hours ago | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Scientists have for the first time selectively blocked a conditioned fear memory in humans with a behavioral manipulation. Participants remained free of the fear memory for at least a year. The research builds on emerging ...


Carnegie Mellon scientists discover first evidence of brain rewiring in children

Scientists discover first evidence of brain rewiring in children

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

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Carnegie Mellon University scientists Timothy Keller and Marcel Just have uncovered the first evidence that intensive instruction to improve reading skills in young children causes the brain to physically ...


Augmented reality systems appearing in Japanese shopping malls

Augmented reality systems appearing in Japanese shopping malls

Technology / Hi Tech

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(PhysOrg.com) -- Augmented reality (AR) systems are being developed for real applications in store windows and shopping malls in Japan.


A NASA satellite image of iceberg B17B (C), some 19 kilometres (12 miles) long, floating off West Australia

Giant iceberg spotted south of Australia

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created 18 hours ago | popularity 4.7 / 5 (10) | comments 12

A monster iceberg nearly twice the size of Hong Kong island has been spotted drifting towards Australia in what scientists Wednesday called a once-in-a-century event.


Texas Tech Using Remote Sensing Technology to Improve Peanut Crops

Biology / Ecology

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers are using remote sensing to estimate biophysical characteristics including ground cover and yield.


Grinch likely depressed, suffers from lack of love, joy, expert says (w/ Video)

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Being irritable, grumpy and seeking social isolation are also hallmarks of depression, and could explain the Grinch's disdain for the Who -- the tall and the small -- his mistreatment of his dog Max and, ...


Social scientists build case for 'survival of the kindest'

Social scientists build case for 'survival of the kindest'

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (26) | comments 31

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, are challenging long-held beliefs that human beings are wired to be selfish. In a wide range of studies, social scientists are amassing ...


Most antidepressants miss key target of clinical depression

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A key brain protein called monoamine oxidase A (MAO-A) - is highly elevated during clinical depression yet is unaffected by treatment with commonly used antidepressants, according to an important study published today in ...


Researchers finds hidden sensory system in the skin

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Researchers report that the human body has an entirely unique and separate sensory system aside from the nerves that give most of us the ability to touch and feel. Surprisingly, this sensory network is located throughout ...



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