NHLBI awards $68 million to fund clinical centers in pediatric heart disease
...al research. New clinical investigators will gain experience in areas such as grant writing, ethical conduct of research, and clinical trial design....Small amounts of alcohol or anesthetics may damage the developing brain
...LTD stimulus, normal slices of the rat hippocampus experience a 30 to 40 percent decrease in synaptic transmission. But those rats treated with alcohol or anesthetics experienced a complete elimination of LTD. What LTD does is not well understood, but there is evidence suggesting it is important in spatial work...New study suggests brains of autistic children can be trained to recognize faces
...autism may be due to their lack of familiarity and experience with faces rather than an inherent problem with the fusiform," said Geraldine Dawson, who directs the University of Washington Autism Center and who was among the first researchers to suggest that an impairment in face recognition might be one of the...Special training may help people with autism recognize faces
...much eye contact with other people and have little experience in learning to recognize faces," said Aylward, a p... are taught to make eye contact and thus have more experience looking at faces. It involves intensive training 25 hours a week for two years. Dawson and her tea...Substances found in blood may predict development of preeclampsia
...nsion, so it is not known whether these women also experience a rise in sFlt-1 and decreased levels of PlGF. Gestational hypertension differs from preeclampsia in that it usually does not lead to the dangerously high blood pressure that can occur in preeclampsia. However, the finding does raise the possibili...Century may bring unprecedented climate change to southern hemisphere
...th America and the northern hemisphere in general, experience an abrupt warming of 5 degrees Celsius over two centuries. Bush expected to find the same results in South America. What he found instead was a much more gradual warming, 5 degrees over several millennia. This discovery may explain why there was less...MIT student dances with robots
... Human test subjects with varying degrees of dance experience held the "hand" of the PHANToM and managed, for the most part, to successfully follow its unpredictable leads. The key was their familiarity with the moves. It wasn't exactly Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, but it was a solid first step in Gentry's f...Do we perceive using 'mindsight'?
...ly guess. But he also thinks that people who don't experience mindsight may be screening out what appear to be gut feelings in favour of what appears to be more rational information, while those who do are happy to trust their instincts. Mindsight may also be at work when someone goes into a room and senses ...UT Southwestern researchers study benefit of exercise, medication on depression
...n SSRI for eight to 12 weeks and are continuing to experience symptoms of depression. Interested persons should call 214-648-0173. Eligible participants will begin an exercise program at The Cooper Institute, located at 12230 Preston Road, as well as being trained on how to exercise at home....CIESIN receives grant to establish government biological information site
...ent this project for the government because of its experience integrating natural resources data, information pr...han 25 years of ecological research and assessment experience related to environmental change and variability. Dr. Worrest is a member of the United Nations Envir...Sex in the brain: How do male monkeys evaluate mates?
... them to the imaging equipment. We had a wonderful experience with the facility and the people at the University of Minnesota."...... contribution of users is welcomed. Submissions of experience reports on mobility are collected under a section called 'Submit your story' and will be presented under each country, respectively. Moreover, a very complete collection of links to other relevant websites is presented such as other jobs and grants d...Global warming may cause songbirds to avoid certain foods
...ce for foods they had eaten previously. "Previous experience does affect their preferences," Mller said. So what does all this mean? According to McWilliams, it could mean a great deal in a world that is growing warmer due to increasing levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. "These results provide a mu...Understanding urinary tract infections
...States. Scientists estimate half of all women will experience a UTI at some point in their lives, and additional recurrent UTIs will affect 20 to 40 percent of these patients. Clinicians had assumed that E. coli and other bacteria that cause UTIs were not invading cells of the urinary tract, but in June 2003, ...Tips from the Journals of the American Society for Microbiology
... with reptile-associated Salmonella spp. and often experience severe clinical courses, including fatalities due to septicemia and meningitis." In the study, fecal samples were collected from pet snakes and tested for the presence of Salmonella. Strains of Salmonella enterica appeared in eighty-one percent of t...Space technology in new technique to fight breast cancer
...from ESI. Bruno Naulais, ESI manager reports, "Our experience with the ActiveFU project has demonstrated that ESI can bridge the gap between having an idea and starting up an actual business. It supports entrepreneurs such as Brunsveld van Hulten to build a viable business plan, to conduct feasibility studies o...Bridging the gap between genetics and motivations to drink alcohol
...ple, if genetic variability predisposes someone to experience greater neuropharmacological reward from alcohol, it could lead to stronger motives to drink for positive reinforcement. Furthermore, genetic vulnerability to depression or anxiety or depression could serve as the foundation for drinking to alleviat...Adolescent rodents experience milder hangover effects than do adult rodents
...adults. Findings indicate that adolescent rodents experience less anxiety during the hangover phase, and recove...est that following a drinking episode, adolescents experience a very unusual hangover effect that is manifested by an increase in social motivation and interactio...Gene essential for development of normal brain connections resulting from sensory input discovered
...s of learning disorders. After birth, learning and experience change the architecture of the brain dramatically....but do not develop normally in response to sensory experience after birth. This parallels some learning disorders in humans where the child appears normal initia...Story tips from the Department of Energys Oak Ridge National Laboratory, January 2004
...ories may help to explain why. ORNL has decades of experience making mutated mice while Los Alamos researchers have been studying host-pathogen interactions using anthrax and other agents. So the collaboration is a natural, says Dabney Johnson, a genetics researcher in ORNL's Life Sciences Division. "There are ...