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Seeing colors in music, tasting flavors in shapes may happen in life's early months

Famed violinist Itzhak Perlman sees a deep forest green whenever he plays a B-flat on his Stradivarius' G string. The A on the E string is red.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Feb 10, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

US begins stem cell trial for hearing loss

US researchers have begun a groundbreaking trial to test the potential of umbilical cord blood transplants, a kind of stem cell therapy, to treat and possibly reverse hearing loss in infants.

Medicine & Health / Research

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

New procedure repairs severed nerves in minutes, restoring limb use in days or weeks

American scientists believe a new procedure to repair severed nerves could result in patients recovering in days or weeks, rather than months or years. The team used a cellular mechanism similar to that used by many invertebrates ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Feb 03, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (19) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

In schizophrenia research, a path to the brain through the nose

A significant obstacle to progress in understanding psychiatric disorders is the difficulty in obtaining living brain tissue for study so that disease processes can be studied directly. Recent advances in basic cellular neuroscience ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jan 25, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

NanoCAGE reveals transcriptional landscape of the mouse main olfactory epithelium

The problem in biology of how to identify the promoters of olfactory receptor genes (>1000 genes) has remained unsolved due to the difficulty of purifying sufficient material from the olfactory epithelium. ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jan 05, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

How skin is wired for touch

Compared to our other senses, scientists don't know much about how our skin is wired for the sensation of touch. Now, research reported in the December 23rd issue of the journal Cell provides the first picture of how specia ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 22, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Gene discovery explains how fruit flies retreat from heat

A discovery in fruit flies may be able to tell us more about how animals, including humans, sense potentially dangerous discomforts.

Biology / Biotechnology

created Dec 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Multisensory integration: When correlation implies causation

In order to get a better picture of our surroundings, the brain has to integrate information from different senses, but how does it know which signals to combine? New research involving scientists from the ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers supply major results for understanding the thalamus, the 'relay center' of the brain

The thalamus is the central translator in the brain: Specialized nerve cells (neurons) receive information from the sensory organs, process it, and transmit it deep into the brain. Researchers from the Institute ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researcher develops model to foster new drug development to treat pain and epilepsy

Drawing on X-ray crystallography and experimental data, as well as a software suite for predicting and designing protein structures, a UC Davis School of Medicine researcher has developed an algorithm that predicts what has ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 12, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Neuroscientists find genetic trigger that makes stem cells differentiate in nose epithelia

University of California, Berkeley, neuroscientists have discovered a genetic trigger that makes the nose renew its smell sensors, providing hope for new therapies for people who have lost their sense of smell ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Senses of sophistication: Mosquitoes detect subtle cues finding food, spreading diseases

Fruit flies and mosquitoes share similar sensory receptors that allow them to distinguish among thousands of sensory cues – particularly heat and chemical odors – as they search for food or try to avoid danger, ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 05, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Phantom limb formation relates to how sensory contact is lost

The phantom limbs perceived by many amputees and others who lose sensory connection with their bodies, do not form in “default” postures as often thought, but instead coalesce into positions that ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 05, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

New research distinguishes roles of conscious and subconscious awareness

What distinguishes information processing with conscious awareness from processing occurring without awareness? And, is there any role for conscious awareness in information processing, or is it just a byproduct, like the ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 30, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Doctors could learn from Shakespeare's deep understanding of mind-body connection

Shakespeare was a master at portraying profound emotional upset in the physical symptoms of his characters, and many modern day doctors would do well to study the Bard to better understand the mind-body connection, concludes ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 24, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0