News tagged with computer communications


Physio for the home

Accidents or operations are often followed by long periods of rehabilitation treatment. In future, a new technology will allow patients to do physiotherapy exercises at home, while still making sure that ...

Health created Jan 14, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New computer model to speed development of drugs for heart failure

(Medical Xpress)—Researchers at the University of Virginia have developed a new model of how the heart reacts to stresses such as high blood pressure, shedding light on a common cause of heart failure and facilitating the ...

Medical research created Dec 13, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Is Facebook a factor in psychotic symptoms?

As Internet access becomes increasingly widespread, so do related psychopathologies such as Internet addiction and delusions related to the technology and to virtual relationships. Computer communications ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Nov 20, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

App lets you monitor lung health using only a smartphone

People suffering from asthma or other chronic lung problems are typically only able to get a measure of their lung function at the doctor's office a few times a year by blowing into a specialized piece of ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Sep 18, 2012 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Charting the SH2 pool

New research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Cell Communication and Signaling describes a large set of interactions (interactome) which maps the range of phosphotyrosine (pTyr)-dependent interactions with S ...

Medical research created Sep 13, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Light from electronic screens at night linked to sleep loss

Like a lot of Americans, Amalie Drury has grown very attached to her smartphone.

Health created Jul 11, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Ethical considerations of military-funded neuroscience

The United States military and intelligence communities have developed a close relationship with the scientific establishment. In particular, they fund and utilize an array of neuroscience applications, generating profound ...

Other created Mar 20, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Two-dimensional learning: Viewing computer images causes long-term changes in nerve cell connections

Viewing two-dimensional images of the environment, as they occur in computer games, leads to sustained changes in the strength of nerve cell connections in the brain. In Cerebral Cortex, Prof. Dr. Denise Manahan-Vaughan and An ...

Neuroscience created Sep 26, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Examining the brain as a neural information super-highway

An article demonstrating how tools for modeling traffic on the Internet and telephone systems can be used to study information flow in brain networks will be published in the open-access journal PLoS Computational Biology on 2nd ...

Neuroscience created Jun 02, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study finds widening gap between distracted driving and legislation

Cell phone distractions account for more than 300,000 car crashes each year. As a result, most states have put laws in place to limit or prohibit the use of things like cell phones and PDAs while driving. But a new study ...

Health created May 24, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0