Brain imaging study may hold clues to onset of schizophrenia in people at high risk
... push-button responses to certain colored squares, circles and objects from everyday life. Each visual cue is...eural activity generated by a series of infrequent circles that were designated as 'target' events, which participants were instructed to detect and respond to...Breast cancer may be 'uniquely sensitive' to inhibitors of PI3K pathway
...there are central nodes between these intersecting circles that can be effectively targeted with drugs." Only one PI3K pathway inhibitor is in use to date, but others are increasingly being developed and tested, says Mills, who is discussing the importance of this pathway at the annual San Antonio Breas...Prescription of opioids for back pain needs improvement
...hers. Because of the heated controversy in medical circles about whether the use of opioids is an effective and safe long-term treatment strategy for back pain, the researchers believe the patterns and trends in opioid use they have uncovered could provide a rational scientific basis for future investigation...New technology enhances lung cancer detection
...thm that analyzes the digital x-ray data and draws circles around suspicious regions of interest. The new CAD system, also used for mammography at UHC, focuses the attention of radiologists on these potential abnormalities. "As a tertiary care center, we see a lot of complex cases," says Dr. Robert Gilkeson...Scripps Research Institute group designs DNA vaccine that inhibits growth of cancerous tumors
...ating cancer have generated interest in scientific circles and society at large. One of these approaches to is to try to block the process of angiogenesis, the formation of new blood vessels that bring necessary nutrients and oxygen to the hungry tumor cells. Block angiogenesis, the thinking goes, and you ca...The Lancet Neurology November press release
It is well known in media circles that including the word "sex" in a headline is a sure-fire way of attracting the attention of potential readers. It is understandable, therefore, why a paper published in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry (JNNP) entitled "Is mult...Gene therapy success in the laboratory buoys hope for Parkinson's disease
...e, and actually respond to it by running around in circles over and over. The test result was a "very strong behavioral measure showing this is a good treatment for Parkinson's," Dr. Oshinsky says. The researchers also stimulated the rats' subthalamic nucleus and examined the resulting connection in the subs...Playful therapy garments for children receive patent
...security toy. To fulfill a fine motor goal to draw circles and vertical strokes, he drew a bug, and then continued to draw other insects and animals for the therapist. Previously, he had not been able to remain seated for more than a few minutes at a time. "One reason for the noticeable improvement in Matthe...Yale study reinforces theory that babies count
...hree objects each. The objects were red, filled-in circles about the size of a dime. In the second phase, all of the infants were presented with two kinds of test trials: trials depicting two collections of four objects each, and trials depicting four collections of two objects each. Wynn and Bloom predicted...Marijuana use linked to hallucinogen use
...lso, marijuana smokers often are members of social circles where drug use and experimentation is more common, and friends are likely to share drugs. In addition to trying to persuade young people to not use drugs, it may be worthwhile for us to persuade users to not share their drugs with friends." The autho...Brain center searches for patterns
...ime there will be short patterns, like a series of circles or a sequence of alternating circles or squares," he said. "We concentrated on discovering whether the subjects' brain activity in the pr...Age-related declines in mental function
...ng a list of words; and a control tasksubstituting circles and squares for letters and digits, to see which areas ofthe brain activate during visual processing without using working memory. The researchers analyzed the resulting PET images, and also recorded andanalyzed subjects' speed and accuracy on the me......tor starts out with the patient'sdiagnostic image, circles the diseased region with a mouse and sends the imageas a query to the data base. Computer vision software determines the "meanintensity" of the image -- or how gray it is -- along with other features. Thatinformation is used to place the image into a...