Study finds male and female brains respond differently to visual stimuli
...ales and females. "If males and females found the pictures equally arousing, you would assume they would have similar patterns of brain activation," said Hamann. "But we discovered the male brain seems to process visual sexual cues differently." The scientists' discovery also is consistent with an evolution...Making smart drugs that deliver the right kind of punch
...rce microscope---a device so sensitive it can take pictures of single molecules---to spy on interactions betwe...p is an individual molecule. By taking a series of pictures and putting them together into a movie, Mecke could watch dendrimers in action. What she saw was tha...Lung tumor therapies improved by combining CT and PET scans
...ized tomography (CT) scans, which produce detailed pictures of the size and shape of cancerous growths. In a study in the April 15 issue of the International Journal of Radiation, Oncology, Biology, Physics, researchers show that adding data from positron emission tomography (PET) scans to structural CT dat...HHS launches diabetes prevention campaign
...es. We need to reach Americans with the words and pictures that they understand to help them promote and protect their good health." In response to the diabetes epidemic, HHS' NDEP is taking the lead on delivering the type 2 diabetes prevention message to high risk audiences through its campaign targeted to ...Study shows heart biopsy possible via arm catheterization
...ization uses a vein or artery in the wrist to take pictures of the heart arteries, to access the pulmonary artery in the lungs or the right side of the heart, or to measure blood pressures in certain blood vessels. Previous studies have shown that patients who have catheterization through the arm recover more...Combination PET/CT should be used to determine stage of non-small cell lung cancer
... immediately rather than requiring time to develop pictures from data gathered by the individual imaging machines. Other researchers on this study include Kristin Yang, Malcolm Brock, David Mason, Carmen Roig, Ron Rosen, Richard Wahl, Rex Yung, Julie Brahmer and David Ettinger....Mayo researchers invent targeted imaging probe to aid early Alzheimer's diagnosis
... produce enhanced MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) pictures of the destructive brain lesions that cause Alzheimer's disease. This advance using laboratory mice lays the foundation for the first imaging-based diagnostic test for living Alzheimer's disease patients. The new technique is currently used only with...SMASH imaging increases effectiveness of MRI for musculoskeletal imaging
...g to the study, SMASH imaging, which acquires many pictures at the same time as opposed to traditional imaging techniques that acquire one image at a time, is commonly used in cardiac imaging and other applications where high-resolution fast imaging is needed, but it had not yet been used for musculoskeletal ...American genetic abnormality also discovered in the Netherlands
... Netherlands. This information about the clinical pictures of the four syndromes can help physicians to better inform patients about the progression of the disease. They can also use it to recognise the clinical picture in new patients at an earlier stage....Celebrities are root cause of rush to dentist
...y have to open some of the glossy magazines to see pictures of famous people with perfect, unblemished teeth, or features about cosmetic procedures, such as bleaching. A large number of dental practices are now offering bleaching. "There is a strong psychological element to health and well-being, and, desp...How odors help make multimodal memories
...ry brain regions were activated during memories of pictures and sounds, it wasn't known whether taste and smell brain regions similarly participated in memory association. In their experiments, the researchers presented human volunteers with random combinations of an odor and the image of an object and asked ......teers was asked to create stories or links between pictures of objects and various different smells. When the volunteers were later shown pictures of the same objects, their piriform (olfactory) cortex was re-activated even though the smell was no...How brain gives special resonance to emotional memories
...irst exposed volunteer subjects to a collection of pictures that evoked both positive and negative emotions and those that were neutral. Emotional pictures depicted such negative events as aggressive acts or injured people and such positive events as roman...Jefferson-based technology promises to help find hard-to-diagnose appendicitis cases
...n case of hard to diagnose cases, the gamma camera pictures allow doctors to accurately see if the appendix is infected or not and permits them to treat the cause appropriately. "NeutroSpec is easy, quick and reliable and has no known risk," says Mathew Thakur, Ph.D., professor of radiology and radiation onc...3D neutron-based medical imaging, 4D lung scans, and hitting a moving tumor
... Highlights at the meeting include: the first 3D pictures from a neutron-based imaging technique; an MRI-bas...D TO EARLIER BREAST CANCER DIAGNOSIS To take pictures of the body, medical professionals conventionally use X rays, magnetic fields (MRI), ultrasound, and...Optics meeting tips: Internal fingerprints, no cell left behind, 3-D reality
...aser-based technique produced such high-resolution pictures of a living specimen with such good depth penetration. Called "harmonic optical microscopy," the technique scans infrared laser light across the living specimen, which then generates light in the second and third harmonics (having two and three time...Northwestern researchers pinpoint how false memories are formed
...We measured brain activity in people who looked at pictures of objects or imagined other objects that we asked...wed. Brain activity produced in response to viewed pictures and measured with functional MRI also predicted which pictures would be subsequently remembered. Two...Advances in plasma physics at Annual APS Meeting
...senting at the APS meeting successfully took x-ray pictures of z-pinch plasmas on the Z facility using a special crystal imaging diagnostic. This diagnostic is only sensitive to x rays of a single photon energy, unlike traditional x-ray imaging diagnostics. This allowed the use of a laser-produced plasma x-r...Brain regions activated by food craving overlap with areas implicated in drug craving
...earchers decided to use words as cues rather than pictures - so each subject could imagine their own most desirable version of the liked food. After the session subjects reported whether they had experienced any food cravings. As expected, the monotonous diet increased the likelihood of food cravi......senting at the APS meeting successfully took x-ray pictures of z-pinch plasmas on the Z facility using a special crystal imaging diagnostic. This diagnostic is only sensitive to x rays of a single photon energy, unlike traditional x-ray imaging diagnostics. This allowed the use of a laser-produced plasma x-...