News tagged with index finger

New technology measures oxygen in individual red blood cells in real time

In an engineering breakthrough, a Washington University in St. Louis biomedical researcher has discovered a way to use light and color to measure oxygen in individual red blood cells in real time.

Medical research Mar 25, 2013 | 4 / 5 (1) | 0 |

Verbal aggression: You may have picked it up in the womb, says new study

(Medical Xpress)—Research on the communication trait of verbal aggressiveness, which includes behavior like name calling, ridicule, insults, racial epithets and threats, has tended to focus on its social ...

Psychology & Psychiatry Jan 07, 2013 | 3.2 / 5 (9) | 2 |

Research finds a connection between bonding and matched movements

(Medical Xpress)—Humans have a tendency to spontaneously synchronize their movements. For example, the footsteps of two friends walking together may synchronize, although neither individual is consciously ...

Psychology & Psychiatry Dec 13, 2012 | 3.3 / 5 (4) | 0 |

Prenatal exposure to testosterone leads to verbal aggressive behavior

A new study in the Journal of Communication links verbal aggression to prenatal testosterone exposure. The lead researcher, at University at Buffalo – The State University of New York, used the 2D:4D measure to predict verbal ...

Psychology & Psychiatry Nov 29, 2012 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

Learning a new sense: Scientists observe as humans learn to sense like a rat, with 'whiskers'

A Weizmann Institute experiment in which volunteers learned to sense objects' locations using just "rat whiskers" may help improve aids for the blind.

Neuroscience Nov 05, 2012 | 4.5 / 5 (4) | 5 |

Surgeons restore some hand function to quadriplegic patient

Surgeons at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have restored some hand function in a quadriplegic patient with a spinal cord injury at the C7 vertebra, the lowest bone in the neck. Instead ...

Surgery May 15, 2012 | 4.6 / 5 (7) | 0 |

Finger length clue to motor neuron disease

(Medical Xpress) -- People with the commonest form of motor neuron disease (MND) called amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) are more likely to have relatively long ring fingers, reveals research from the Institute of Psychiatry ...

Neuroscience May 11, 2011 | 5 / 5 (2) | 0