News tagged with sensory deficit

Neurological disorder in golden retriever dogs caused by a mutation in mitochondrial DNA

Sensory ataxic neuropathy (SAN) is a recently identified neurological disorder in Golden Retriever dogs with onset during puppyhood. Affected dogs move in an uncoordinated manner and have sensory deficits. Researchers from ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

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Diagnosing developmental coordination disorder

Children showing difficulty carrying out routine actions, such as getting dressed, playing with particular types of games, drawing, copying from the board in school and even typing at the computer, could be suffering from ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Multiple sclerosis research links brain activity to sharper cognitive decline

(Medical Xpress) -- When it comes to communication in the brain, more is usually better. But now scientists have linked increased communication in a network of brain regions to more severe mental impairment in patients with ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jan 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

'BINGO!' game helps researchers study perception deficits

Bingo, a popular activity in nursing homes, senior centers and assisted-living facilities, has benefits that extend well beyond socializing. Researchers found high-contrast, large bingo cards boost thinking and playing skills ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jan 03, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers link multiple sclerosis to different area of brain

Radiology researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) have found evidence that multiple sclerosis affects an area of the brain that controls cognitive, sensory and motor functioning ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

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Discovering Autism: An unsettling boom

Amber Dias couldn't be sure what was wrong with her little boy.

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 19, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Researchers illuminate the gap between experience and association

(Medical Xpress) -- In the moments after lightning streaks through the sky, we wait for the clap of thunder that experience has told us is likely to follow. In a finding that may have implications for treating Alzheimer’s ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 12, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

How our brains keep us focused

In a new study to appear in Neuron, scientists at the RIKEN Brain Science Institute (BSI) have uncovered mechanisms that help our brain to focus by efficiently routing only relevant information to perceptual brain ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 07, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Integrated 3-D imaging facilitates human face transplantation

By combining conventional medical imaging with some of the same 3-D modeling techniques used in Hollywood blockbusters, researchers are offering new hope to victims of serious facial injuries. Results of a new study on human ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 28, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers identify key proteins of inner ear transduction channel

National Institutes of Health-funded researchers have identified two proteins that may be the key components of the long-sought after mechanotransduction channel in the inner ear—the place where the mechanical stimulation ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

'Toolkit' makes medical procedures less stressful for children with autism

The Vanderbilt Kennedy Center has joined with Autism Speaks to create a resource for physicians and parents of children with autism to better prepare for blood draws and other routine medical procedures. This ...

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created Sep 22, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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