News tagged with physiological measure
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 ...
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Family stress has long-term impact on kids
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 21, 2007 |
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A study from Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., says family turmoil and violence causes stress-induced physical problems in adolescents.
Bladder cells feel stretch
Aug 07, 2009 |
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Japanese research group led by Prof. Makoto Tominaga and Dr. Takaaki Sokabe (National Institute for Physiological Sciences: NIPS), and Prof. Masayuki Takeda, Dr. Isao Araki and Dr. Tsutomu Mochizuki (Yamanashi Univ.), found ...
Political attitudes are predicted by physiological traits
Sep 18, 2008 |
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Is America's red-blue divide based on voters' physiology? A new paper in the journal Science, titled "Political Attitudes Are Predicted by Physiological Traits," explores the link.
Newly launched study to probe women's response to male odor
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 05, 2008 |
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A single gene determines whether a whiff of androstadienone smells pleasant or foul, or like nothing at all. But researchers who last year discovered this genetic peculiarity were left wondering about its social implications.
Study shows how using mental strategies can alter the brain's reward circuitry
Jun 29, 2008 |
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The cognitive strategies humans use to regulate emotions can determine both neurological and physiological responses to potential rewards, a team of New York University and Rutgers University neuroscientists has discovered. ...
Biomarkers used to predict chronological and physiological age
Nov 19, 2008 |
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Scientists at the Buck Institute for Age Research have identified for the first time biomarkers of aging which are highly predictive of both chronological and physiological age. Biomarkers are biochemical features that can ...
Mechanical ventilation for patients with lung damage don't always work as planned
Nov 12, 2009 |
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As more Canadians are diagnosed with H1N1 influenza infection, some will be admitted to hospital. The most severely affected may be treated in the intensive care unit (ICU) and placed on a mechanical ventilator to help them ...
Vive the vole!
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Apr 01, 2008 |
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The gathering of data for research involving an animal usually involves invasive procedures or death for the experimental animals. But critical data may now be collected through a nonlethal procedure, according ...
Risk of frailty in older women dependent on multisystem abnormalities
Jul 30, 2009 |
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A study published online ahead of press in the Gerontology Society of America's Journal of Gerontology: Medical Sciences reports that the condition of frailty in older adults is associated with a critical mass of abnormal physio ...
New measure of sexual arousal found for both men and women
Feb 23, 2007 |
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According to a new study published in the latest issue of The Journal of Sexual Medicine and conducted in the Department of Psychology of McGill University, thermography shows great promise as a diagnostic method of measur ...
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