Is There a 'Mozart Effect'? Ask a Neuroscientist and a Musicologist 12 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(PhysOrg.com) -- Neuroscientists and musicians have learned that looking at the brain on music can yield valuable insights into how the mind works. Yet, University of Arkansas music theorist Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis cautions ... | |
Study shows no connection between measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) vaccine and autism 14 hours ago | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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In a case-control study, the presence of measles virus RNA was no more likely in children with autism and GI disturbances than in children with only GI disturbances. Furthermore, GI symptom and autism onset were unrelated ... | |
World-first to predict premature births 16 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Australian researchers and a pathology company have joined forces to develop a world-first computerised system which may reveal a way to predict premature birth with greater accuracy. | |
 Do 68 molecules hold the key to understanding disease? 16 hours ago | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 24 vote(s)
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Why is it that the origins of many serious diseases remain a mystery? In considering that question, a scientist at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine has come up with a unified molecular ... | |
Stem cell research puts interstate rivalry on hold 16 hours ago | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
Victoria and New South Wales have put aside their competitive interstate rivalry to collaborate on a stem cell research project, as announced by Innovation Minister Gavin Jennings and NSW Minister for Science and Medical ... | |
Hallucinations in the flash of an eye 17 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Dominic H. ffytche at the Institute of Psychiatry in London reviews what we do know and moves the field forward, by introducing a new experimental approach to studying hallucinations as they occur. | |
 Fatal protein interactions may explain neurological diseases 23 hours ago | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 17 vote(s)
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In a collaborative study at the University of California, San Diego, investigators from neurosciences, chemistry and medicine, as well as the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) have investigated how proteins ... | |
Natural childbirth makes mothers more responsive to own baby-cry 23 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
A new study has found that mothers who delivered vaginally compared to caesarean section delivery (CSD) were significantly more responsive to the cry of their own baby, identified through MRI brain scans two to four weeks ... | |
Research suggests that cigarettes' power may not be in nicotine itself September 03, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
There may be a very good reason why coffee and cigarettes often seem to go hand in hand. A Kansas State University psychology professor's research suggests that nicotine's power may be in how it enhances other experiences. ... | |
New methods identify and manipulate 'newborn' cells in animal model of Parkinson's disease September 03, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
When cells in the brain are lost through disease or injury, neighboring cells begin to divide and multiply, but only a few areas in the brain are able to produce new neurons. Patients with Parkinson's disease suffer degeneration ... | |
Researchers Observe Asymptomatic Carotid Plaque Healing Mechanisms September 03, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
Researchers at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have observed by non-invasive MR imaging (MRI), a healing mechanism for plaque rupture, a potentially life-threatening event in the cardiovascular system that can ... | |
Yerkes researchers create animal model of chronic stress September 03, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
In an effort to better understand how chronic stress affects the human body, researchers at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center and the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University, have created ... | |
Arteries from distinct regions of the body have unique immune functions September 03, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Human arteries play distinct roles in the immune system depending on their anatomical location, researchers at Emory University School of Medicine have discovered. | |
Monitoring immune responses in disease September 03, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
A recent study (doi:10.1016/j.clim.2008.06.009) published in Clinical Immunology, the official journal of the Clinical Immunology Society (CIS), describes a new method enabling the detection of multiple parameters ... | |
Hearing restoration may be possible with cochlear repair after transplant of human cord blood cells September 03, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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According to an Italian research team publishing their findings in the current issue of Cell Transplantation (17:6), hearing loss due to cochlear damage may be repaired by transplantation of human umbilical cord hematopoietic ... | |
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