News tagged with control skills


Simulator-based robotic sx curriculum hones skills

(HealthDay)—A simulator-based curriculum incorporating fundamental skills of robotic surgery (FSRS) is feasible and improves effectiveness in basic robotic surgery skills, according to a study published ...

Surgery created May 13, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Skills learning program in middle schools dramatically reduces fighting

(Medical Xpress)—Middle school children who completed a social-emotional skills learning program at school were 42 percent less likely to engage in physical fighting a year later, according to a new study in the Journal of ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created May 07, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

People with MS-related memory and attention problems have signs of extensive brain damage

People with multiple sclerosis (MS) who have cognitive problems, or problems with memory, attention, and concentration, have more damage to areas of the brain involved in cognitive processes than people with MS who do not ...

Neuroscience created Mar 06, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Children's complex thinking skills begin forming before they go to school

New research at the University of Chicago and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill shows that children begin to show signs of higher-level thinking skills as young as age 4 ½. Researchers have previously attributed ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Jan 23, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Developmental outcomes good for late preterm infants in NICU

(HealthDay)—Late preterm infants (LPIs), born at 34 to 36 weeks of gestation, who receive intensive care, have similar cognitive, motor, and language skills at age 3 as LPIs who did not receive intensive ...

Pediatrics created Oct 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Computer modeling shows how medications play a part in the Parkinson's experience

(Medical Xpress)—A University of Western Sydney researcher has developed a new computational model, which will improve our understanding of how Parkinson's disease (PD) medications affect the brain and cognition.

Parkinson's & Movement disorders created Sep 11, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Assisted listening devices benefit children with dyslexia

(HealthDay)—For children with dyslexia, the use of assistive listening devices (classroom frequency modulation [FM] systems) reduces auditory processing variability, with concomitant improvements in reading ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Sep 05, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Kids who play interactive video games have better motor skills

(Medical Xpress) -- Deakin University health researchers have found pre-schoolers who play interactive video games, such as Wii, have better motor skills.

Psychology & Psychiatry created Jul 24, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study examines characteristics, risk factors among HIV-positive persons born outside the US

An examination of the characteristics of persons born outside the United States diagnosed with HIV while living in the U.S. finds that, compared to U.S.-born persons with HIV, they are more likely to be Hispanic or Asian, ...

HIV & AIDS created Jul 22, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Stress management training may help reduce disease activity in multiple sclerosis

A new study shows that taking part in a stress management program may help people with multiple sclerosis (MS) prevent new disease activity. The study is published in the July 11, 2012, online issue of Neurology, the medica ...

Neuroscience created Jul 11, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Physical education is good for kids' grades, study finds

(HealthDay) -- Boosting students' levels of physical education improves their grades, a new, small study says.

Health created May 28, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists find anticonvulsant drug helps marijuana smokers kick the habit

Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute have found clinical evidence that the drug gabapentin, currently on the market to treat neuropathic pain and epilepsy, helps people to quit smoking marijuana (cannabis). Unlike ...

Addiction created Apr 24, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Lifelong payoff for attentive kindergarten kids

Attentiveness in kindergarten accurately predicts the development of "work-oriented" skills in school children, according to a new study published by Dr. Linda Pagani, a professor and researcher at the University of Montreal ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Look before you leap: Teens still learning to plan ahead

Although most teens have the knowledge and reasoning ability to make decisions as rationally as adults, their tendency to make much riskier choices suggests that they still lack some key component of wise decision making. ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Jun 17, 2011 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast