Medical research
Nerve protein tomosyn linked to learning and memory
Can the nerve signaling inhibitor tomosyn help retain long-term memory? A new study by two University of Illinois at Chicago biologists points to the link.
Oct 31, 2011
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Genetics
Predicting multi-omics from genotypes with OmicsPred
Work by an international research team led by Yu Xu and Michael Inouye at the Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, has resulted in a unique resource for predicting multi-omics data directly ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Distraction, if consistent, does not hinder learning
Maybe distraction is not always the enemy of learning. It turns out in surprising Brown University psychology research that inconsistent distraction is the real problem. As long as our attention is as divided when we have ...
Dec 9, 2014
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Autism spectrum disorders
A smartphone app to treat and track autism
Diagnosing autism can take half a day or more of clinical observation, and that's the quick part – often, families wait years just to get to that point. Now, in hopes of speeding things up, Stanford researchers are developing ...
Mar 7, 2019
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Six distinct types of depression identified in study combining brain imaging with machine learning
In the not-too-distant future, a screening assessment for depression could include a quick brain scan to identify the best treatment.
Jun 17, 2024
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Artificial intelligence approaches may improve diagnostics of kidney disease
Two new studies reveal that modern machine learning—a branch of artificial intelligence in which systems learn from data, identify patterns, and make decisions—may augment traditional diagnostics of kidney disease. The ...
Sep 5, 2019
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Neuroscience
Sleep consolidates memories for competing tasks, researchers show
Sleep plays an important role in the brain's ability to consolidate learning when two new potentially competing tasks are learned in the same day, research at the University of Chicago demonstrates.
Mar 20, 2013
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Radiology & Imaging
Seeing eye to eye: Researchers train AI to copy gaze of clinical professionals
An artificial intelligence (AI) system, which mimics the gaze of radiologists reading medical images such as mammograms, has been developed by a team of scientists at Cardiff University.
Jul 21, 2023
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Neuroscience
When being scared twice is enough to remember
One of the brain's jobs is to help us figure out what's important enough to be remembered. Scientists at Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University have achieved some insight into how fleeting experiences become ...
Jun 12, 2012
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Gerontology & Geriatrics
How wearable sensor algorithms powered by machine learning could prevent injuries that sideline runners
A trans-institutional team of Vanderbilt engineering, data science and clinical researchers has developed a novel approach for monitoring bone stress in recreational and professional athletes, with the goal of anticipating ...
Oct 29, 2020
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