Dopamine-dampening gene linked to prefrontal inefficiency, schizophrenia
...led that both well siblings and patients falter on tasks of working memory and show abnormal activation of the prefrontal cortex, which is required for such "executive" functions. Studies have shown that the chemical messenger dopamine plays a pivotal role in tuning the activity of the prefrontal cortex du...Addiction, AIDs, and ADHD to be discussed at July 11 briefing
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...rodegenerative disease, can make even the simplest tasks impossible. In a new study, Stanford engineer Krishna Shenoy and a group of researchers at Caltech have shown that at least some links in that chain can be dramatically bypassed. The study is a significant advance in the growing field of neural prost...Gender issues related to spaceflight: A NASA perspective
... capacity and thus the ability to perform specific tasks during spaceflight. Aerobic Fitness The average aerobic fitness, expressed as the maximal oxygen uptake of adult women is 2.0 l/min, compared with 3.5 l/min for men. When adjusted for differences in body weight, the average maximal uptake for women ...Prizes awarded in the 2002 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Programme
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...ave known that proteins frequently carry out their tasks in large complexes, technical limitations have made it hard to capture and analyze them. But two years ago an EMBL team headed by Bertrand Sraphin developed a new method of teasing proteins attached to entire, intact machines out of living cells. Pee...Perception is stored in single neurones
... able to master a variety of visual categorization tasks and the organization of their visual system is strikingly similar to that of humans. While the Tbingen monkeys were "working" the scientists observed the activity of neurones in a special area of the brain called the "inferior temporal cortex" (ITC)....Braille reading strategies may enhance stimulation of the brain responsible for vision
... vision during Braille reading and other nonvisual tasks involving touch discrimination. Studied the association between active foci (the point at which the light rays meet after passing through a convex lens) in occipital cortex of blind individuals and the multiple visual areas of sighted. Finding evi...Alien life forms more likely to be found outside solar system, says Colorado prof.
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...repetitive high-intensity, short-duration exercise tasks such as weightlifting, sprinting, and cycling. It is a popular nutritional supplement that is used by physically active people - from recreational exercisers to Olympic and professional athletes. According to a recent survey, 28 percent of athletes ...ORNL material could help pilots keep their cool
... to provide personal cooling for Navy pilots. Main tasks include refining a thermal battery system so it will be more efficient, lightweight and compact and integrating the system with the flight suit and helmet. Similar systems could be incorporated easily into existing equipment and into future technolog...Discovery Channel special watches OSU chimps learn to read
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