http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Whether comparing a man and a woman or a parent and a baby, we can still see when two people of different age or sex are genetically related. How do we know that people are part of a family? Findings from a new study published in the Journal of Vision increases our understanding of the brain's ability to see through these underlying variations in facial structure. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-family-resemblance.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 21 Nov 2011 10:44:34 EST news241094667 Researchers at the University of Tampere and the Aalto University, Finland, have shown that the perception of nude bodies is boosted at an early stage of visual processing. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-nudity-tunes-brain.html Neuroscience Thu, 17 Nov 2011 10:26:14 EST news240747899 (Medical Xpress) -- A researcher at the University of Kansas believes the iPad could vastly improve the lives and prospects of children living with cortical visual impairment, a severe neurological disorder resulting from brain damage that prevents children from interpreting visual information. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-ipad-children-impaired-visual-function.html Health Thu, 06 Oct 2011 03:39:55 EST news237091186 Babies have far less ability to recognize rapidly changing images than adults, according to research from the UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain. The results show that while infants can perceive flicker or movement, they may not be able to identify the individual elements within a moving or changing scene as well as an adult. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-limit-babies-vision.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 14 Jul 2011 17:06:23 EST news229881971 People who are deaf benefit from better vision due to the fact their retinas develop differently, experts at the University of Sheffield have shown. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-retina-key-vision-deaf-people.html Medical research Wed, 01 Jun 2011 17:48:01 EST news226169268 People suffering from body dysmorphic disorder, or BDD — a severe mental illness characterized by debilitating misperceptions that one appears disfigured and ugly — process visual information abnormally, even when looking at inanimate objects, according to a new UCLA study. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-people-body-image-disorders-big-picture.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 26 May 2011 13:43:52 EST news225636214 A University of Toronto study shows that when formerly depressed people experience mild states of sadness, their brain's response can predict if they will become depressed again. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-brain-response-sadness-relapses-depression.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 26 May 2011 12:51:36 EST news225633065 It is common knowledge that bats and dolphins echolocate, emitting bursts of sounds and then listening to the echoes that bounce back to detect objects. What is less well-known is that people can echolocate too. In fact, there are blind people who have learned to make clicks with their mouths and to use the returning echoes from those clicks to sense their surroundings. Some of these individuals are so adept at echolocation that they can use this skill to navigate unknown environments, and participate in activities such as mountain biking and basketball. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-i-can-hear-a-building.html Neuroscience Wed, 25 May 2011 17:48:38 EST news225564496 In the wild, mammals survive because they can see and evade predators lurking in the shadowy bushes. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-brain-visual-optimally.html Medical research Sun, 08 May 2011 13:00:11 EST news224055892 (PhysOrg.com) -- McGill researchers suggest malfunctions in neurons that filter visual information may be responsible for diseases such as ADHD and schizophrenia. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-04-filters-brain-clutter.html Neuroscience Thu, 14 Apr 2011 07:50:01 EST news221983033