Attention deficit disorders
Avoiding failure leads to missed opportunities for children with ADHD
Behavioral experiment on reward and punishment highlights the cumulative effect of punishment in children with ADHD.
Sep 23, 2016
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Neuroscience
How the brain deals with limited sensory input
Suppose you woke up in your bedroom with the lights off and wanted to get out. While heading toward the door with your arms out, you would predict the distance to the door based on your memory of your bedroom and the steps ...
Sep 20, 2016
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Neuroscience
The eyes are the window into the brain
Our eyes are constantly moving, whether we notice or not. They jump from one focus point to another and even when we seem to be focused on one point, the eyes continue to reflexively move. These types of eye movements are ...
Jul 27, 2016
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Attention deficit disorders
The rules of the game for children with ADHD
Children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) often display behaviours that are inappropriate for the situation in which they are in. They might move around in the classroom during a lesson, or talk non-stop ...
Jun 2, 2016
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Neuroscience
Scientists create giant neural connections in culture for the first time
How does memory occur? And what about movement, or thinking? One key element to understand all these brain functions are the synapses. A synapse is the contact point between two neurons, where a signal is transmitted one-way, ...
Apr 11, 2016
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Medical research
Researchers identify age-related differences in human blood metabolites
Metabolites—substances that are created during metabolism—can provide a wealth of information about individual health, disease, diet, and life-style. Now, they can tell us even more. Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology ...
Mar 28, 2016
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Immunology
How malaria fools our immune system
Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) reconstructed the 3D structure of one of the proteins of Plasmodium falciparum, the causative agent of malaria and the antibodies that act as the first ...
Jan 14, 2016
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Diabetes
Seaweed capsules may lead to an injection-free life for diabetic patients
Diabetes is one of the leading causes of death. Patients with type 1 diabetes have their insulin secreting cells destroyed by the immune system and require daily insulin injections. Pancreatic islet transplantation is an ...
Dec 28, 2015
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Genetics
Good news for feast lovers? Obesity-promoting genes discovered
Ever imagined you could eat all the mouthwatering, festive food during winter holidays and never worry about an expanding waistline?
Dec 17, 2015
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Neuroscience
Rare neurons enable mental flexibility
Behavioral flexibility—the ability to change strategy when the rules change—is controlled by specific neurons in the brain, Researchers at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) have ...
Jun 24, 2015
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