November 26th, 2008 - 1:47 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, November 26 (ANI): A Canadian study has provided further evidence that older adults are less capable than their younger counterparts in filtering out distracting information.
Scientists with the Rotman Research ...
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November 22nd, 2008 - 2:18 pm ICT by ANI
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London, November 22 (ANI): A paralysed man who can neither move nor communicate has been enabled to use a speech synthesizer to produce vowel sounds as he thinks them, with the ...
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November 21st, 2008 - 12:00 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, November 21 (ANI): Georgia Tech researchers have found that the brain of a patient with macular degeneration, the leading cause of blindness in the elderly, reorganises its neural connections in ...
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November 20th, 2008 - 12:05 pm ICT by IANS
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Washington, Nov 20 (IANS) Researchers are pioneering use of spatial statistical modelling to analyse brain scan data from military veterans, aiming to pinpoint brain areas affected by Gulf War Syndrome.Richard Gunst, Wayne ...
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November 16th, 2008 - 6:54 pm ICT by ANI
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London, November 16 (ANI): Dutch researchers have developed a mind-reading software program that can scan a brain to decipher the sounds spoken to a person, and even who is saying them. ...
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November 14th, 2008 - 2:07 pm ICT by ANI
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London, November 14 (ANI): Dutch researchers have developed a mind-reading software program that can scan a brain to decipher the sounds spoken to a person, and even who is saying them. ...
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November 13th, 2008 - 1:29 pm ICT by IANS
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Sydney, Nov 13 (IANS) Researchers have isolated an important new link between how we see and the way our mind processes that visual stimulation. Queensland (University) Brain Institute (QBI) scientists Jason Mattingley, ...
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November 12th, 2008 - 4:13 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, Nov 12 (ANI): The most popular cholesterol drugs may cause muscle problems in users, according to a leading researcher.
There is accumulating evidence that the effect statins, which form a class ...
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November 10th, 2008 - 12:04 pm ICT by ANI
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London, November 10 (ANI): An international team of researchers has found that simple decision-making tasks do not involve the brains frontal lobes, where many of the higher aspects of human cognition ...
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November 7th, 2008 - 4:52 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, November 7 (ANI): Scientists at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine have found in a study of teens that genetic factors can influence size variations a brain area, which ...
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November 4th, 2008 - 1:18 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, Nov 4 (ANI): A new study by researchers at the University of California San Diego, La Jolla, has revealed that brains of individuals with major depressive disorder appear to react ...
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October 30th, 2008 - 12:18 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, October 30 (ANI): A team of researchers from three American educational institutions has found that voting decisions are more associated with the brain''s response to negative aspects of a politician''s ...
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October 23rd, 2008 - 4:47 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, Oct 23 (ANI): A new research has uncovered how some people are good at generalizing from past experience, while others are not.
The study has revealed how the brain can connect ...
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October 22nd, 2008 - 12:55 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, Oct 22 (ANI): Researchers at the Institute of Cancer Research in London, U.K. have found that it may be possible to identify cervical cancer in its early stages by using ...
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October 19th, 2008 - 6:06 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, Oct 19 (ANI): A new study by researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have suggested that obese individuals may overeat because they experience less satisfaction from eating food ...
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October 18th, 2008 - 1:31 pm ICT by IANS
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Washington, Oct 18 (IANS) Middle age is the time when people begin to lose myelin, the fatty sheath of "insulation" that coats our nerve cells and allows quicker responses. George Bartzokis, professor ...
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October 17th, 2008 - 12:59 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, Oct 17 (ANI): A new study by researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have suggested that obese individuals may overeat because they experience less satisfaction from eating food ...
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October 15th, 2008 - 12:27 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, October 15 (ANI): Web search activity may be helpful in stimulating and possibly improving brain function, according to a new study.
Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) ...
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October 14th, 2008 - 1:25 pm ICT by IANS
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Washington, Oct 14 (IANS) The more you drink, the smaller the size of your total brain volume, according to latest research. This is particularly true of women.Although men were more likely to ...
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October 14th, 2008 - 12:43 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, Oct 14 (ANI): The more you drink alcohol, the smaller your total brain volume gets, according to a new study by Wellesley College, Massachusetts.
The study found that even moderate alcohol ...
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October 10th, 2008 - 2:13 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, Oct 10 (ANI): Four months after going through a successful hand transplant - 35 years after amputation in an industrial accident - a man has shown an emerging sense of ...
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October 10th, 2008 - 11:52 am ICT by ANI
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Washington, October 10 (ANI): A new imaging study has revealed that the battle between lure of reward and fear of failure is rooted in the brains architecture.
Neuroscientists at the USC ...
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October 9th, 2008 - 5:46 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, October 9 (ANI): Experts at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) have uncovered abnormalities in the cortex, the outer surface of the brain, among cocaine addicts that seem to correlate with dysfunction ...
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October 2nd, 2008 - 3:25 pm ICT by IANS
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Washington, Oct 2 (IANS) Physicists have found a way to zoom in on the tiniest building blocks in existence, thanks to a 'flaw' in diamonds that helps monitor magnetic signals from electrons ...
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October 1st, 2008 - 2:03 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, Oct 1 (ANI): In one of the first direct looks at one of the human brain''s most fundamental "foundations", neuroscientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have ...
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September 25th, 2008 - 1:20 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, September 25 (ANI): Children who find it difficult to solve mathematical questions may be suffering from developmental dyscalculia, a syndrome that is similar to the reading disorder dyslexia, according to ...
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September 22nd, 2008 - 3:01 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, Sept 22 (ANI): A new study suggests that a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan can help do away with the need of exploratory surgery, which is currently used to determine ...
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September 17th, 2008 - 1:13 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, September 17 (ANI): Emotions on peoples faces play a significant role in their recognition by others when they meet sometimes in the future, according to a study.
Researchers in the Netherlands ...
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September 16th, 2008 - 4:25 pm ICT by IANS
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Toronto, Sep 16 (IANS) Canadian researchers used 3-D magnetic resonance imaging to pinpoint high-risk bleeding within the walls of diseased carotid arteries, a precursor of stroke. Carotid arteries are the ones that ...
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September 16th, 2008 - 2:42 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, September 16 (ANI): Studying the composition of brown recluse spiders venom, scientists have identified a new family of chemicals that can be helpful in realising an effective antidote.
Study leader ...
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