News tagged with normal sense
In lean times, flies can't survive without their sense of smell
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Jul 31, 2008 |
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It's not just bomb-sniffing dogs; animals everywhere rely on their sense of smell. Now, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Rockefeller University researchers show just how important olfaction is, proving that fruit flies ...
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Olfactory bulb size may change as sense of smell changes
Jun 16, 2008 |
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The olfactory bulb in the brain appears to change in size in a way that corresponds to individual alterations in sense of smell, according to a report in the June issue of Archives of Otolaryngology–Head & Neck Surgery.
NASA's ENose can sense brain cancer cells
Apr 30, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- An unlikely multidisciplinary scientific collaboration has discovered that an electronic nose developed for air quality monitoring on Space Shuttle Endeavour can also be used to detect odour differences in ...
Sleep deprivation affects ability to make sense of what we see
May 20, 2008 |
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Neuroscience researchers at the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School in Singapore have shown for the first time what happens to the visual perceptions of healthy but sleep-deprived volunteers who fight to stay awake, like people ...
Reading Kafka, watching Lynch improves learning, study suggests
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Sep 15, 2009 |
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Reading a book by Franz Kafka -- or watching a film by director David Lynch -- could make you smarter.
Too hot to handle! Scientists identify heat sensing regulator
May 13, 2008 |
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Neuroscientists at Johns Hopkins are a step closer to understanding pain sensitivity - specifically why it’s variable instead of constant - having identified a gene that regulates a heat-activated molecular sensor. Their ...
Deprived of a sense of smell, worms live longer
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Oct 24, 2008 |
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Many animals live longer when raised on low calorie diets. But now researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have shown that they can extend the life spans of roundworms even when the worms are ...
Normalizing tumor vessels to improve cancer therapy
Aug 25, 2008 |
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Chemotherapy drugs often never reach the tumors they're intended to treat, and radiation therapy is not always effective, because the blood vessels feeding the tumors are abnormal—"leaky and twisty" in the words of the late ...
Sight gone, but not necessarily lost? Researchers find life in blood-starved retinas
Oct 30, 2009 |
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Like all tissues in the body, the eye needs a healthy blood supply to function properly. Poorly developed blood vessels can lead to visual impairment or even blindness. While many of the molecules involved in guiding the ...
Study examines treatment for olfactory loss after viral infection
Oct 19, 2009 |
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Treatment with a glucocorticoid medication, either alone or in combination with Ginkgo biloba, appears to significantly improve the sense of smell in individuals with previous olfactory loss due to upper respiratory infections, ...
Mouse model of Parkinson's reproduces nonmotor symptoms
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Jun 23, 2009 |
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The classic symptoms of Parkinson's disease involve tremor, stiffness and slow movements. Over the last decade, neurologists have been paying greater attention to non-motor symptoms, such as digestive and sleep problems, ...
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