Study reveals cause of loss of consciousness during seizures
...emporal lobe," Blumenfeld said. "Understanding the network abnormalities leading to loss of consciousness during seizures could also help solve an even more fundamental question -- what is the relationship between normal brain activity and conscious thought?" The senior author was Susan Spencer, M.D., o......te hand motions, which they think may be part of a network of brain regions that we use to understand the actions and intentions of others. "Thus," says Malach, "while you perceive a single, whole movie, different regions of your brain are each processing a private motion picture of their own. The unified pe...Storage limits on our visual hard drive
...revious findings have determined that an extensive network of brain regions supports visual short-term memory. In their study, Todd and Marois showed that the severely limited storage capacity of visual short-term memory is primarily associated with just one of these regions, the posterior parietal cortex. T...Intensive diabetes management yields positive results, according to Pittsburgh project
...his was a major challenge since the UPMC physician network extends across a radius of 250 miles. Physician education was delivered through a variety of venues including telecommunicated programs for outlying rural practices, regional physician meetings and lectures from the academic endocrine faculty. One of...Physics and medicine: at Erice the new perspectives of an ancient cooperation
...ssible applications of the grid (the computational network that particle physicists all over the world are developing at the moment and that will have very higher potentialities than those of actual internet) in medicine. The techniques developed for nuclear and sub-nuclear physics have applications, sometim...Schizophrenia patients don't take medications regularly
...delivered to the mentally ill through the existing network of agencies and providers. They also suggest targeting subgroups for specific improvement strategies to protect high-risk patients with schizophrenia," the investigators said in their study. ...Self-assembling proteins could help repair human tissue
... This bundling leads to the formation of a regular network structure of proteins with three-member junctions linked together by the flexible coil modules. In this way, the new biomaterial assembles itself spontaneously when the protein elements are added to the solution. The assembly process involves three ...Rochester, BCM test bird-flu vaccine in humans
...rgy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), which funds a network of institutions to test new vaccines against diseases like flu, smallpox, and pneumonia. The study overall is led by Robert L. Atmar, M.D., associate professor of medicine and molecular virology and microbiology at BCM. John Treanor, M.D., professo...AIUM to host 2004 annual convention June 19-22, in Phoenix, Arizona
...view the newest and best in ultrasound technology, network with colleagues from around the world, and enhance their professional skills through categorical courses and scientific, Meet-the-Professor, Just Images, and film panel sessions. The 2004 convention will also feature scientific and commercial exhibit...New computer-aided approach tailors drug dose to patient needs
...arch Center,. The new approach is based on neural network software that can "learn" when given a large body ...ch to train. Using a fast back-propagation neural network and data from 8 patients undergoing coronary angioplasty and 30 healthy patients, the researchers tr...Infants with fevers receive as good care when physicians rely on judgment than clinical guidelines
...f the Pediatric Research in Office Settings (PROS) network of the American Academy of Pediatrics in 44 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. "The PROS clinicians hospitalized 36 percent of the infants, performed laboratory testing in 75 percent, and initially treated 57 percent with antibiotic...UCSF study: Pediatrician's judgment often better than clinical guidelines for treating infant fever
...m the Pediatric Research in Office Settings (PROS) network of the American Academy of Pediatrics in 44 states, Washington, DC, and, and Puerto Rico. These physicians submitted data from 3,066 infants aged 3 months or younger with temperatures of at least 38 degrees Celsius (100.4 Fahrenheit). The PROS clini...Study reports improved method to identify fetal DNA in maternal blood samples
...clinical site and March 2002 through May 2003 at a network of 27 clinical sites in 16 U.S. states. The first phase collected two samples of blood from ten pregnant women - one blood sample was treated with formaldehyde and the other blood sample was untreated. In the second phase, all 69 blood samples were...Teenagers with cancer are missing out on vital services
...e their recommendations to ensure that each cancer network addresses the problems"...Int'l surveillance system suggests 2002 gastroenteritis outbreaks from new variant norovirus
... through a collaborative research and surveillance network of viral gastroenteritis in ten European countries...ew variant. However, the data collected within our network lend support to anecdotal reports of an increase of an important infection and have allowed us to pr...Link between sleep, cancer progression explored by Stanford researcher
...o go through group therapy or have a strong social network fare better than those with weaker social support....hm, a good candidate for linking a person's social network to his or her cancer prognosis. Spiegel suggested two possible ways in which the circadian rhythm ma...Landslide warnings from satellites may save lives
...-geological Disaster Prevention (GNDCI),a research network working with Italy's Civil Protection Department. "The extreme rainfall of our climate, our mountainous geography and recent uncontrolled urbanisation of unstable land makes us one of the countries most affected by landslide hazards. The total cos...Improving informed consent for children in cancer treatment studies
...tes of Health and the Children's Oncology Group, a network of pediatric medical centers. As part of the study, researchers observed and audiotaped the informed consent conferences involving 137 families at the six medical centers from July 1, 1999 to December 31, 2001. The patients were children, all newl...Scientists grow neurons using nanostructures
... nerve cells using an artificial three-dimensional network of nanofibers, an important technique in regenerative medicine. The results will be published online Jan. 22 by the journal Science . "We have shown that our scaffold selectively and rapidly directs cell differentiation, driving neural progenitor c......n Unit at the University of Rochester is part of a network of seven centers established by the federal government to respond to national needs in the area of infectious diseases. This entails testing new vaccines or treatments for diseases or illnesses like flu, smallpox, whooping cough, pneumonia, malaria,...