RIT takes eye-tracking research to next level
...ironments," Pelz says. "We can study students in a classroom or people finding their way in the woods." The wearable eye tracker extends the laboratory to the real world by recording what people look at and how their eyes move as they perform a specified task, such as attending to a lecture in a classroom, d...Helping answer needs by developing specialists in autism
...l receive intensive, hands-on experience in a mock classroom setting and will be better equipped to effectively teach these children," says Naomi Swiezy, Ph.D., clinical director of the Sarkine Center and associate professor at the Indiana University School of Medicine. "The CDC grant enables us to get the rig...Researchers track program's success in curbing aggressive behavior
...-- When Laura Bush visited an inner city Baltimore classroom earlier this month, she observed first-grade stude... Behavior Game" shined the national spotlight on a classroom management technique little known outside academic circles. Turns out the game works -- keeping the...Effects of autism reach beyond language, new research suggests
... medical students one to two days before a regular classroom exam a period when they would be highly stressed. Students were also given a similar battery of tests a week after the exam, when things were less hectic. While pre-exam stress helped students accurately recall a list of memorized numbers, they did ...Brown and NIH create joint neuroscience graduate program
..."Brown's graduate program is providing outstanding classroom training in the neurosciences," DeLong said. "The NIH can build on that foundation with a vast range of laboratory experience at the cutting edge of neuroscience. These students will get training that is second to none." Students are eligible to appl...Methylphenidate improves attention, behavior of children surviving leukemia, brain tumors
...of MPH to reduce these problems at home and in the classroom among childhood cancer survivors. The study included 83 long-term survivors, 40 of whom had survived ALL and 43 of whom survived BTs. The children (47 males and 36 females) were identified as having attention deficits as me...NIH funds seven science education partnership awards
...land's Children's Hospital will create interactive classroom activities on social and genetic factors in health to include minority issues such as asthma, obesity, diabetes, and heart disease. Meanwhile, the University of Texas will expand and increase distribution of its HEADS-UP health science curriculum to ...Anxiety good for memory recall, bad for solving complex problems
... medical students one to two days before a regular classroom exam a period when they would be highly stressed. Students were also given a similar battery of tests a week after the exam, when things were less hectic. While pre-exam stress helped students accurately recall a list of memorized numbers, they did ...Physically fit children appear to do better in classroom, researchers say
... to compete not only on the ball field, but in the classroom as well? University of Illinois researchers have been exploring these and other related questions in a series of studies during the past two years, and preliminary results indicate a correlation. "We have found a strong relationship between academic ...New research calls for schools to be more aware of head injuries
...iversity of Warwick examining return to school and classroom performance following head injury reveals that teachers are often unaware of the injury and that children only very rarely receive specialist help, despite having attention and memory problems. The results show that regardless of injury severity ma...Tufts professor launches program to mentor deaf students in state-of-the-art physics research
...f hearing students with the opportunity to combine classroom learning with hands-on lab experience. "I'm ex...ing departments. The Tufts program incorporates a classroom portion to teach the students how to communicate effectively: how to write a scientific report, how ...Tackling medical schools' informal curriculum
...e organizational culture behind the scenes [in the classroom and on the wards] has to mirror what's happening between the patient and the doctor in the office or at the bedside," says Dr. Suchman. "Medical schools have been working for decades to teach technical skills to medical students and residents, but un...Mixed amphetamine salts significantly better than atomoxetine in treating children with ADHD
...rvine, CA, May 4, 2004 In one of the largest ADHD classroom trials conducted to date, children with attention-...behavior and attention throughout a 12-hour analog classroom day, compared to atomoxetine, and did so with relatively few side effects," said Sharon Wigal, Ph.D....Gaining health while giving back to the community
...ments in student reading, academic achievement and classroom behavior while not burdening the school staff, say...n in the control schools, and office referrals for classroom misbehavior decreased by about half in the Experience Corps schools but remained the same in the con...Sitting in nonsmoking sections a powerful tactic for preventing teen smoking
..., the 12th-grade students were asked to complete a classroom survey about their current smoking behavior. Student self-reports of smoking activity were found to be largely accurate as verified through saliva tests that checked for the presence of cotinine, a byproduct of nicotine. Fifty-one percent of the stud...Los Angeles kids benefit from new asthma identification process
... middle schools using a process that relies on the classroom teacher's independent distribution and collection ...ent to 65 percent. In addition, the percentage of classroom return rates increased from 9.3 percent to 27.5 percent. "The impact of asthma on inner-c...Internet program and videos net nutritional benefits for kids
...tudying the idea of using a CD for schools without classroom internet access. Co-authors were Shelly Malin, Ph.D., R.N.; Yvonne Greer, M.P.H., R.D., C.D. and Roger L. Brown, Ph.D....FIRST fellowship program proves worthy model for training faculty in biological sciences
...s. This is combined with concurrent mentorship in classroom methods and technologies, course development and teaching practice in undergraduate minority-serving institutions. Fellows team teach a course with a fellow postdoctoral student and launch the course on the worldwide web. Faculty in the FIRST prog...Study reveals teachers' attitudes about having chronically ill children in the classroom
...s surveyed 384 school professionals (including 241 classroom teachers) in 23 elementary schools about the impact of having a child in the classroom with one of six chronic health conditions AIDS, asthma, congenital heart disease, diabetes mellitus...Book explores how children use imagination to battle chronic illness
...asking me, okay?' " While being pulled out of the classroom for diabetes shots is an example of an everyday situation that can cause stress for a sick youngster, Clark said not being able to let loose on special occasions or holidays can be very distressing for chronically ill children. "I can bake a sugar-f...