Neuroscience
Why we look at the puppet, not the ventriloquist
(Medical Xpress)—As ventriloquists have long known, your eyes can sometimes tell your brain where a sound is coming from more convincingly than your ears can.
Aug 30, 2013
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Social status and power of action of speakers determine the way their statements are perceived
The actual standing of speakers within a society's power structure determines how their statements are perceived. This is the conclusion reached in a joint study undertaken by neurolinguist Professor Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky ...
Aug 5, 2013
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Medical research
Breath analysis reliably indicates presence, level of infection in mice, study finds
Breath analysis may prove to be an accurate, noninvasive way to quickly determine the severity of bacterial and other infections, according to a UC Irvine study appearing online today in the open-access journal PLOS ONE.
Aug 1, 2013
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Psychology & Psychiatry
People with mental health problems hit harder by recession
Since the start of the recession, the rate of unemployment for people with mental health problems has risen more than twice as much than for people without mental health problems, according to new research from King's College ...
Jul 27, 2013
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Adenoviruses may pose risk for monkey-to-human leap
Adenoviruses commonly infect humans, causing colds, flu-like symptoms and sometimes even death, but now UC San Francisco researchers have discovered that a new species of adenovirus can spread from primate to primate, and ...
Jul 25, 2013
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Medical research
Laser-controlled molecular switch turns blood clotting on, off on command
Researchers have designed tiny, light-controlled gold particles that can release DNA controls to switch blood clotting off and on. The results are reported July 24 in the open access journal PLoS ONE by Kimberly Hamad-Schifferli ...
Jul 24, 2013
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Genetics
Genetic testing improved student learning in personalized medicine class, study finds
Students who had their genome tested as part of a groundbreaking medical school course on personalized medicine improved their knowledge of the class materials by an average of 31 percent compared with those who didn't undergo ...
Jul 23, 2013
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Psychology & Psychiatry
New research reveals alcohol impairs humans' ability to override their 'autopilot'
New research from Western University's Brain and Mind Institute (BMI) has revealed that alcohol definitively impairs the human ability to override impulse or snap decisions that are natural responses to rapidly evolving situations.
Jul 8, 2013
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Medical research
New study reveals important role of insulin in making breast milk
Why do so many mothers have difficulty making enough milk to breastfeed? A new study by scientists at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and the University of California Davis adds to their previous research implicating ...
Jul 5, 2013
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Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Promising Alzheimer's 'drug' halts memory loss
A new class of experimental drug-like small molecules is showing great promise in targeting a brain enzyme to prevent early memory loss in Alzheimer's disease, according to Northwestern Medicine research.
Jun 26, 2013
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