New studies show factors responsible for enhanced response to music
... heard a lot of music before they began playing an instrument themselves," Roberts says. "Their early exposure t...sicians and in adult amateur musicians who play an instrument for personal enjoyment. The study is the first one to examine these brain responses in children rece...Near-real time ozone forecasting made possible by Envisat
...ponsible for ozone depletion. BASCOE relies on an instrument aboard Envisat called the Michelson Interferometer for Passive Atmospheric Sounding (MIPAS). It works day and night to measure infrared emissions from the Earth's 'limb' the narrow band of atmosphere between the planetary surface and empty space. Em...NHLBI study finds hostility, impatience increase hypertension risk
...ssed by different scales based on the psychosocial instrument used but, in every case, a higher score meant the most intense degree of the behavior. Time urgency/impatience was rated on a scale from 0 to 3-4. After 15 years, participants with the highest score of 3-4 had an 84 percent greater risk of developi...Device measures force used to deliver a baby
...he said. "It was so exciting to bring our wireless instrument into the delivery room, where the doctors could use it without interfering with their tactile senses." I-Jean Khoo, 23, of Singapore, who received her bachelor's degree in biomedical engineering from Johns Hopkins in May. She is now working on a m...Stages of memory described in new study
...ng, playing a sport, or learning to play a musical instrument or perform a surgical procedure. "This is the type of memory that we often take for granted," says Walker. "But for stroke patients or other individuals who have suffered neurological damage that has injured their motor skills functioning including ...A picture perfect test of well-being: Graphic assessment tool tunes into life satisfaction
...he help of more than 3,000 study participants, the instrument looks as if it was torn from the pages of a children's coloring book and can be completed with a crayon. If the tool sounds simplistic, Gueldner is just fine with that. Existing tools to measure people's sense of well-being have tended to be far more...New blood test could detect lung cancer in its earliest stages
...ll treatable. Their new diagnostic test employs an instrument called "MALDI-TOF MS" to detect proteins in the bl...cally charges or "ionizes" the blood proteins. The instrument then propels the proteins down a flight tube at high velocity. The manner in which each molecule lan...Screening for depression at primary level could be next trend in healthcare
...ussions of psychological symptoms, and a screening instrument like the MHI-5 can facilitate the discussion. Meagher recommends that patients complete a paper and pencil screen in the waiting room or while the nurse is taking other vital signs such as blood pressure, body weight, etc. The nurse could then promp...Depression doubles risk of death after bypass surgery
...pression (CES-D) survey, a 20-question self-report instrument that can be administered by psychologists in less than 15 minutes. "Of that group of patients, thirty-eight percent met the criteria for being depressed," Blumenthal said. "Specifically, twenty-six percent we considered to be mildly depressed, and an...Early detection of lung cancer possible with CAT and PET scans
...hough prospective randomised trials are the proper instrument with which to measure the ultimate outcome of any screening policy, pilot studies addressing specific technical issues and methods are of fundamental importance in a phase of accelerated development of imaging and molecular technology, to design the ...Mapping the air to safeguard your looks, the environment and planes in flight
...own as 'St Elmo's fire' shot from the wings to the instrument panel, and the engines shut down. Only after falli...re' of volcanic eruptions. Until recently the GOME instrument aboard ERS-2 was producing daily aerosol and sulphur dioxide plume maps and next year SCIAMACHY, onb...Music therapy strikes a chord with cancer patients
...ally thought that the patient had to be playing an instrument or singing along, but passive listening or simply the presence of the therapist providing music itself can be therapeutic." Now with funding from the National Institutes of Health, the team is conducting a larger study to check its results. In the c...Innovations in hearing loss detection & treatment
... life, pg 235 A speech-in-multitalker-babble test instrument was developed to examine the effects of hearing lo...aring and 24 listeners with hearing loss. The test instrument described in this paper will be useful in evaluating the complaint of a patient unable to understand...Capturing airborne pathogens, breath tests for lung cancer
...opping malls) to aid in bio-terrorism defense. The instrument may also provide rapid and reliable clinical diagnosis of cellular disorders. In addition, the LTRS sensors can be used as a valuable tool to study cellular processes within single living cells or intracellular organelles and aid research in molecula...Early use of universal forms boosts informed consent among ICU patients
...ot compromised by routine distribution of this new instrument for guiding informed consent." "We have shown that education of clinicians, patients, and proxies regarding the process of informed consent can improve this process in critically ill patients," the authors conclude. The universal consent form descr...Virtual mass spectrometry laboratory transforms learning experience
...to the mass spectrometer, the student must set the instrument controls and calibrate it using a known standard c...udent fails to prepare a sample correctly, set the instrument controls properly, or massages the dataset appropriately. For example, failing to do the latter step...NIH funds new brain imaging center at San Francisco VA Medical Center
...received nearly 50 applications for MRIs, and this instrument is one of the few awarded, Weiner said. The new center, which is expected to open in late 2003, will be a joint Programof the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center and the NorthernCalifornia Institute for Research and Education (NCIRE). It wi...Comparing screening instruments for alcohol dependence and abuse
...fy for clinicians an effective and short screening instrument for alcohol-use disorders, a study in the November...ter). The CAGE questionnaire is a short screening instrument commonly used in the clinical setting that asks if an individual has thought about Cutting down on t...Story tips from DOE's Oak Ridge National Laboratory Nov 2002
... and law enforcement personnel may soon have a new instrument to detect radioactive material at airports, border crossings and ports. The HotSpotter, developed by researchers at the Y-12 National Security Complex and ORNL, detects gamma and neutron radiation and analyzes the data in just seconds. As a result, i...UT Southwestern, Children's Medical Center to test new rapid diagnostic equipment
...This provides high-tech testing capabilities. This instrument allows a health-care worker to take a swab from a patient, dip it in solution, place it in the instrument and walk away. This is bringing molecular diagnoses into the clinical laboratory." The new testing m...