Neuroscience

Video: Human brain scan

This colorful brain scan is a 3-D model created by tractography, which uses data collected with diffusion weighted MRI to map the brain's white matter. Each line represents a bundle of nerve fibers wrapped in a myelin sheaths, ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Some U.S. coronavirus curves are starting to flatten

To slow the exponential growth of coronavirus, and lessen the burden on hospitals and healthcare workers, local and state officials have issued sweeping mandates closing non-essential businesses and schools and ordering residents ...

Psychology & Psychiatry

Beware of evening stress

Stressful events in the evening release less of the body's stress hormones than those that happen in the morning, suggesting possible vulnerability to stress in the evening.

Psychology & Psychiatry

Certain smiles aren't all they're cracked up to be

Sweaty palms, a racing heart, a faltering voice. Many people find public speaking unpleasant. The mere anticipation of social evaluation increases the activity of almost all body systems related to stress, with particularly ...

Psychology & Psychiatry

Visual perception: Vertical disparity corrects stereo correspondence

It is well known that humans perceive 3D structures of scenes using the horizontal difference of images observed by our eyes— referred to as horizontal (binocular) disparity. It is also known that vertical disparity produces ...

Surgery

Landmarks ID'd to orient humerus in elbow arthroplasty

(HealthDay)—The posterior humeral cortical line (PCL) is better than the transepicondylar axis (TEA) as a reference point and reproducible landmark for orienting the humerus during elbow arthroplasty, but both measures ...

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