Famous Faces Activate More Parts Of The Brain
...dysuggests. By imaging volunteers who were viewing famous or unfamiliar faces, theresearchers concluded that...l and nonverbal information about an itemsuch as a famous face, you get activation of both sides of the brain," saysWilliam M. Kelley, a graduate student at W...USC Historian Sifts World's Oldest Printed Medical Books For Clues To Riddle Of Gender
... physician who had married the daughter of another famous doctor.The young Tan later recalled reciting poems for her grandfather, who "laughedand said, 'The girl is very clever, quite out of the ordinary. When she is grownshe will be able to practice my medical arts.'" She did, and left a memoir ofher pract...Showing pictures of admired blacks or elderly can lower levels of unconscious prejudice
...ng college students to pictures anddescriptions of famous and infamous Americans. All participants in the testswere white or Asian-American. In the first experiment, half the subjects were shown images andinformation about admired blacks, such as civil rights leader Martin Luther KingJr. and ex-bask...The bone marrow is the source of mature liver cells
...urce of cells that are responsible for the liver's famous ability to regenerate itself. These cells, called stem cells, are recruited to the liver from the bone marrow and function as liver cells, according to a new study by New York University School of Medicine and Yale University School of Medicine scien...Cincinnati chemist wins national award for medical contributions
...onference in St. Petersburg Beach, Fla. The most famous image associated with Clark's fluorine research is arguably a mouse, completely submerged in a beaker of liquid but perfectly healthy. The liquid is an oxygen and carbon dioxide carrier, a fluorocarbon later featured in the deep-sea dive of the 1989 ......on in women than in men. Nevertheless, a number of famous people including the poets Baudelaire and Rimbaud, the painters Kandinsky and Klee, the composers Lizst and Scriabin have been linked to synesthesia. In an attempt to describe what synesthesia is like, novelist and synesthete Vladimir Nabokov wrote...Breast cancer under threat from the new ethics say top cancer specialists
...gates, Professor Baum has turned to George Orwells famous novel 1984 for inspiration for a short satirical drama entitled 2084, which will performed by the panellists. He envisages the hero of Orwells novel as a medical oncologist in the year 2084 whose attempts to carry out clinical research lead him into ...Scientific society offers development sessions for industrial members
...ts acoustical quality to the pre-recorded sound of famous classical Italian violins. Jeffrey Peppet, global director of marketing communications, and Robert Eilerman, senior vice president of flavor research and development, Givaudan Corporation, Cincinnati, Ohio Flavor and fragrance R&D: collecting taste...Eisenhower Mem. 1st CA hospital to use Bridge barcode system to prevent medication errors
...Annenberg board. Along with Beyond Blame, Bridges famous documentary, the forums helped draw industry attention to medical errors and are proof positive of Eisenhowers historic dedication to researching and resolving this problem. Held in Indianapolis this April, the fourth was designed to give healthcare ...Buck researcher makes progress in fight against Huntington's Disease
...movements, rigidity, dementia and death. The most famous victim of Huntington's disease was American folk singer Woody Guthrie. Lisa Ellerby, Ph.D., who directs a laboratory at the Buck Institute, suggests that the protease calpain could play an important role in Huntington's disease and therefore be a tar...Mad hatters, seafood jubilees, & Pfiesteria Files
...d turn it into felt more easily. Abraham Lincoln's famous beaver stovepipe hats were made in this fashion. Hat makers, exposed to large amounts of vaporized mercury, began to experience its effects on their own nervous systems. Doctors even recorded seeing "holes the size of quarters" inside some hatters'...Annals of Internal Medicine: 75 years of medical history
... 2, 2002) Weakened by illness, a postman entered a famous clinic one day in the summer of 1925. He had lost 14 pounds in four weeks and said his legs were partly paralyzed. But his goiter, or enlarged thyroid gland, had decreased in size. "The cure is working wonders," he told his doctor. That postman's cas...The link between medicine, science and art
...s medical school students would not recognize this famous American work nor understand its significance in medicine and art, explained Marek H Dominiczak, MD, PhD, from the Art Science Laboratory, Institute for Art History, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom. For the most part, said Dominiczak, the Amer...Study finds Medicare overbilling may be caused by government's faulty reimbursement
...others had assigned. "This study is similar to the famous tax test that Money magazine conducted a couple of years ago," said Brent Asplin, MD, MPH, author of a related editorial in this issue. "Money sent a hypothetical family's tax return to 46 professional tax preparers and got back 46 different answers,...Athleticism and body weight tied to ALS and other motor neuron diseases
... sometimes called "Lou Gehrig's Disease" after the famous baseball player whose career was cut short by the disease, has been associated with many patients who were lean throughout their lives as well as being athletes, said Lewis P. Rowland, MD, with the Neurological Institute in New York, and a co-author ...Memory training may help some Alzheimer's patients in the early stages of the disease
... that included people in their social network and famous people. They used such memory aids as mnemonic devices, which use the image to jog memory through some kind of meaningful association; "vanishing cues," a method in which participants fill in more and more letters in the person's name, until they ca...NYU School of Medicine attracts a powerful MRI machine
...rs of superconducting wire. Tesla, named after the famous inventor Nikola Tesla, is a unit of magnetic flux density that describes the "strength" of the magnet. One Tesla equals 10,000 Gauss. The Earth's magnetic field, which is strong enough to turn a needle on a compass, is 0.5 Gauss. A 7-Tesla magnet is...Thanksgiving: A time for healthful eating?
...o can aid recovery from stroke . The red berries, famous in Thanksgiving sauces, may protect brain cells from death after a stroke, according to findings presented at the September national meeting of the American Chemical Society by Catherine Neto, Ph.D., of the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth. Co...National Inventors Hall of Fame announces 2004 class of inventors
...struction of many bridges but died before his most famous bridge, the Brooklyn Bridge, was completed in 1883. Inventors may be nominated by anyone for induction into the Hall of Fame, but they must hold a U.S. patent to be considered. The nominee's invention must have contributed to the welfare of societ...Argonne licenses Anti-Jet-Lag-Diet software to online company
...nline at www.AntiJetLagDiet.com , is based on the famous Anti-Jet-Lag Diet, developed at Argonne and used to avoid jet lag by hundreds of thousands of travelers over the last 20 years. Research shows that travelers who use the Anti-Jet-Lag Diet are seven times less likely to experience jet lag when travel...