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The impossible staircase in our heads: how we visualise the world around us

(Medical Xpress) -- Our interpretation of the world around us may have more in common with the impossible staircase illusion than it does the real world, according to research published today in the open access ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Mar 23, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

The eyes have it: Men do see things differently to women

The way that the visual centers of men and women's brains works is different, finds new research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Biology of Sex Differences. Men have greater sensitivity to fine detail and ra ...

Neuroscience created Sep 03, 2012 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (5) | comments 11 | with audio podcast

Heart repair breakthroughs replace surgeon's knife

(AP)—Have a heart problem? If it's fixable, there's a good chance it can be done without surgery, using tiny tools and devices that are pushed through tubes into blood vessels.

Cardiology created Mar 24, 2013 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Open source licensing defuses copyright law's threat to medicine

(Medical Xpress) -- Enforcing copyright law could potentially interfere with patient care, stifle innovation and discourage research, but using open source licensing instead can prevent the problem, according to a physician ...

Other created Dec 29, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists discover how HIV virus gains access to carrier immune cells to spread infection

Scientists from the AIDS Research Institute IrsiCaixa have identified how HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, enters the cells of the immune system enabling it to be dispersed throughout an organism. The new ...

HIV & AIDS created Dec 18, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Expert suggests tried-and-true strategies to strengthen your relationship

What are you doing to keep your relationship alive? A University of Illinois study highlights the importance of five relationship maintenance strategies that couples can use to preserve or improve the quality of an intimate ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Jan 09, 2013 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Enlarged prostate: decade-long study demonstrates immediate and long-term benefits of holmium laser treatment

(Medical Xpress) -- New research presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Urology Association (AUA) in Washington, DC demonstrates that holmium laser therapy is a safe and durable treatment option for Benign Prostatic ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created May 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Smart materials that get bone to heal

Bone tissue is very good at self-healing, but in many situations the natural healing process is not sufficient. In a dissertation at Uppsala University, Sonya Piskounova shows how functional materials that ...

Medical research created Nov 04, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Rest versus exercise: Equally effective on lower back pain

Lower back pain due to Modic changes can be hard to treat and the currently recommended therapy of exercise and staying active often does not help alleviate the pain. Results of a trial, published in BioMed Central's open ...

Health created Feb 28, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

New technique for minimally invasive robotic kidney cancer surgery

Urologists at Henry Ford Hospital have developed a new technique that could make minimally invasive robotic partial nephrectomy procedures the norm, rather than the exception for kidney cancer patients. The technique spares ...

Surgery created Dec 13, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Chronic inflammation in the brain leads the way to Alzheimer's disease

Research published today in Biomed Central's open access journal Journal of Neuroinflammation suggests that chronic inflammation can predispose the brain to develop Alzheimer's disease.

Alzheimer's disease & dementia created Jul 02, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

School system favors pupils driven by worry and conscientiousness

In one of three studies, Pia Rosander carried out personality tests on 200 pupils in southern Sweden when they entered upper secondary school at 16. Three years later, when they received their final grades, she was able to ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Jan 24, 2013 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Study links personality changes to changes in social well-being

(Medical Xpress)—Researchers report that changes in social well-being are closely tied to one's personality, with positive changes in one corresponding to similar changes in the other. Their study reveals ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Dec 19, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Brown eyes appear more trustworthy than blue

People view brown-eyed faces as more trustworthy than those with blue eyes, except if the blue eyes belong to a broad-faced man, according to research published January 9 in the open access journal PLOS ON ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Jan 09, 2013 | popularity 2.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Girls' mathematics performance more likely to suffer than boys' as a result of mathematics anxiety

If a train is travelling a distance of 55 miles at 150mph, how long will it take to reach its destination? If the thought of having to answer this question makes you apprehensive, then you may have mathematics anxiety. A ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Jul 08, 2012 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Openness

Openness is the quality of being open. It sometimes refers to a very general philosophical position from which some individuals and organizations operate, often highlighted by a decision-making process recognizing communal management by distributed stakeholders (users/producers/contributors) rather than a centralized authority (owners, experts, boards of directors, etc.)

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