The first study to test the skills of FBI agents and other law enforcers who have been trained in facial recognition has provided a reassuring result - they perform better than the average person or even computers on this ...
Sep 1, 2015
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Infants born prematurely are at elevated risk for cognitive, motor, and behavioral deficits—the severity of which was, until recently, almost impossible to accurately predict in the neonatal period with conventional brain ...
Jan 24, 2014
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In the battle against brain cancer, doctors now have a new weapon—a new imaging technology that will make brain surgery dramatically more accurate by allowing surgeons to distinguish—at a microscopic level—between brain ...
Sep 4, 2013
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We've all heard the saying "you can't teach an old dog new tricks." Now neuroscientists are beginning to explain the science behind the adage.
Aug 25, 2013
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A natural form of sugar could offer a new, noninvasive way to precisely image tumors and potentially see whether cancer medication is effective, by means of a new imaging technology developed at UC San Francisco in collaboration ...
Aug 15, 2013
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Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine say overexpression of a protein called alpha-synuclein appears to disrupt vital recycling processes in neurons, starting with the terminal extensions ...
Feb 7, 2013
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Every new imaging technology has an aura of magic about it because it suddenly reveals what had been concealed, and makes visible what had been invisible. So, too, with photoacoustic tomography, which is allowing scientists ...
Mar 22, 2012
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Purdue University researchers have created a new imaging technology that reveals subtle changes in breast tissue, representing a potential tool to determine a woman's risk of developing breast cancer and to study ways of ...
Mar 6, 2012
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Despite advances in both the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer, the disease remains a leading worldwide health concern.
Jan 5, 2012
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The left brain/right brain dichotomy has been prominent on the pop psychology scene since Nobel Laureate Roger Sperry broached the subject in the 1960s. The left is analytical while the right is creative, so goes the adage.
Jan 4, 2012
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