Chernobyl: The true scale of the accident
...nt that deaths exceed births, which reinforces the perception that these areas are dangerous places to live. Even when pay is high, schools, hospitals and other essential public services are short of qualified specialists. What has been the impact on individuals? According to the Forum's report on health, "...Research shows where brain interprets 'pitch'
...n when played by two different instruments. "Pitch perception is such a basic function of human and animal audit...conversation is not as essential to monkeys, pitch perception is crucial for nonhuman primates to interpret the source and meaning of prey and predator calls or o...Scientists uncover why picture perception works
...t for both medical and psychological use. "Visual perception of displayed images is a key factor in human decision making," Vishwanath notes, "Properly describing how humans view and perceive images will provide a better understanding of why people respond positively to some images and negatively to others."...Study in Royal Society journal on first observation of giant squid in the wild
...afety, and experience with predators amplified the perception of risk in prey. While fish tolerated closer appr...g armor or cryptic coloration also had a decreased perception of risk. We find that selection sensitizes prey to predator behaviour, and prey can reduce fear vi...Experiencing the world through the neurons of Math1
...similar function. They all help us coordinate body perception and movement in space. Now we know that one gene specifies the majority of these neurons that this one gene has been conserved during evolution to execute this task, said Dr. Huda Zoghbi, BCM professor of pediatrics and molecular and human genetics ...How the brain sorts babble into auditory streams
...use this phenomenon to explore the neurobiology of perception of auditory streams, because they could explore how perception altered with the same stimulus. In the human studies, Micheyl, working in the MIT laboratory of Andr...The brain needs the middle ear to track depth
...icated that they were clearly able to update their perception of the depth of the target, even in the absence of information from their own motor movements. By contrast, the monkeys that lacked vestibular systems showed compromised ability in the task. "These results demonstrate not only that monkeys can update...Research: removal of dominant rivals causes male cichlid fish to undergo remarkable transformation
...n of other genes," Burmeister said. "We found that perception of social opportunity caused more egr-1 to be expressed in the hypothalamus, a region of the brain that controls fertility. We believe that in our fish, egr-1 turns on expression of a second gene, GnRH1, which produces a hormone necessary for reprodu...JCI table of contents November, 2005
...e. The data suggest that an alteration in the fat perception system might increase obesity risk through feeding dysregulation. TITLE: CD36 involvement in orosensory detection of dietary lipids : impact on spontaneous fat preference and digestive secretions AUTHOR CONTACT: Phillippe Besnard Physiologie de ...Cornell finds natural selection in humans
...immune function, sperm and egg production, sensory perception and transcription factors (proteins that control which genes are turned on or off) have been particularly affected by positive selection and show rapid evolution in the last 5 million years, when humans shared a common ancestor with chimps. Likewise...Color perception is not in the eye of the beholder: It's in the brain
...'s journal Neuroscience, strongly suggest that our perception of color is controlled much more by our brains tha...Center for Visual Science. "We've shown that color perception goes far beyond the hardware of the eye, and that leads to a lot of interesting questions about how ...Have a taste for fat? Yes! A sensor in the mouth promotes preference for fatty foods
...e. The data suggest that an alteration in the fat perception system might increase obesity risk through feeding dysregulation. In an accompanying commentary, Nada Abumrad writes that this report provides insight into the basis of our preference for fat and may help us devise better strategies to address the a...JCI table of contents November, 2005
...e. The data suggest that an alteration in the fat perception system might increase obesity risk through feeding dysregulation. In an accompanying commentary, Nada Abumrad writes that this report provides insight into the basis of our preference for fat and may help us devise better strategies to address the a...New ECCO 13 data emphasise vital importance of cervical cancer detection, treatment and prevention
... Agency, Austria commented, "There is a widespread perception that if a patient has both cancer and HIV the situation is hopeless. Our study found that this was clearly NOT true for cervix cancer IF the patient received proper radiotherapy for her cancer. If she did not receive proper radiotherapy, then a poor ...ECCO 13 offers new insights into patients' perceptions of cancer
...vember 2005 - New light has been shed on patients' perception of cancer following the results of studies, presen... well as having a significant bearing on patients' perception of complementary medicine, busy clinical settings and heavy caseloads can present barriers to cancer...Insect pheromone research wins Eppendorf/Science prize
... full understanding of the mechanisms of pheromone perception could help scientists manipulate insect behavior a...to control mosquito breeding by interrupting their perception of pheromones. The Finalists Are: Justin Blau, for his essay "How Flies Time: Circadian Clocks in......ound that the areas of the brain related to visual perception appear to reside exclusively in the occipital lobe (at the back of the head.) Tse's team concluded that, "the neural correlates of conscious visual visibility for masking stimuli lie in the occipital lobe, but after visual area 2."...'Perception' gene tracked humanity's evolution, scientists say
A gene thought to influence perception and susceptibility to drug dependence is expressed...eneous. Exactly how prodynorphin influences human perception is unknown. Evidence for its various effects comes entirely from clinical studies of people who have...Robo-rodent gets 'touchy-feely'
...ch other and how they combine to provide a clearer perception of any particular object. Some robots even manifested emergent behaviour. Emergent behaviour is a primary characteristic of life. In biological systems the combination of various data, like touch and sight, reinforces specific neural pathways. These ...... the study. "Health-related quality of life is our perception of health and how we believe disease and illness impacts our ability to function. It's much more influenced by genes than we thought." The researchers looked at a total of 2,928 middle-age, middle-class, predominately white men who were on the Vietna...