Sleeping Through the Night: Children's sleep expert advises parents
... sleep, having appeared on over 150 television and radio broadcasts, and quoted in every leading print publication. Sleeping Through the Night By Jodi A. Mindell, Ph.D. HarperResource/$14.95 ISBN: 0060742569 On Sale March 15, 2005...Emotional memory study reveals evidence for a self-reinforcing loop
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...troscopy and circular dishroism (CD). NMR combines radio wave emissions and a powerful magnetic field to determine the structure of proteins suspended in solutions, while CD measures differences in the absorption of different types of polarized light by molecules to determine their shape. It also can show ...2004 Science-in-Society Award winners announced
...ey are. No award is being offered this year in the radio and Web categories because the judges felt that none of the entries sufficiently fulfilled the core requirement of the Science-in-Society award, which is to explore the societal impact of science. The members of the final judging committee were: Caro...Brain remapping may be key to recovery from stroke
...ed the intricate movements of the hand. fMRI uses radio waves and a strong magnetic field to image the body. It can identify signs that neurons in a specific area of the brain are "firing," that is, processing information and giving commands to the body. "Once we understand which part of the brain network...Cocaine addicts show reduced brain structure that underlies judgment
...ed technique in which harmless magnetic fields and radio signals are used to create three-dimensional images of the brain. The researchers used data from the brain scans to determine the volume of the amygdalas in the subjects. The researchers found that the amygdalas of the cocaine addicts were significan...Heart arrhythmias easily treated, yet few know risks
... heart and ablate (destroy) it with high frequency radio waves. After the procedure, Sandra said "If I had known how simple this was, I would have done it earlier." She has had no more incidents in approximately two years since the catheter ablation. "I am absolutely thrilled I had th...Advances in plasma physics at Annual APS Meeting
...l fusion devices, the long wavelength, penetrating radio waves used to heat the plasma can spontaneously convert into short wavelength waves. It's important to identify where and how these waves convert to understand heating in machines such as tokamaks, which are likely to lead to the first practical fus...Advances in plasma physics at Annual APS Meeting
...l fusion devices, the long wavelength, penetrating radio waves used to heat the plasma can spontaneously convert into short wavelength waves. It's important to identify where and how these waves convert to understand heating in machines such as tokamaks, which are likely to lead to the first practical fus...Capsule endoscopy aids in detection of small bowel tumors inaccessible to other diagnostic tests
...a light source, video camera, battery, antenna and radio transmitter. Images of the intestinal tract are transmitted twice each second by radio frequency to an array of sensors worn around the patient's abdomen and the signals are digitally rec...Promise for helping adults with dyslexia
...idely used technique, harmless magnetic fields and radio signals are used to scan blood flow in brain regions, which reflects brain activity. The fMRI scans revealed that during a word processing task, the dyslexic subjects showed less activity in a region of the brain known to be involved in reading -- th...Latest Asian-American tobacco use data reported
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... child with bipolar disorder. Before she began her radio career in 1981, Trudeau, a graduate of Stanford University, studied primate behavior with Jane Goodall at the Gombe Stream Research Center in Tanzania, and worked as a research associate at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C. She has...People are of 'two minds' on moral judgments
...ed imaging technique, harmless magnetic fields and radio signals are used to measure blood flow in regions of the brain, with such flow indicating brain activity levels. The researchers discovered that people confronting the difficult personal moral dilemmas showed increased activity in the areas involved ...The machinery of forgetting fears
...hnique involves using harmless magnetic fields and radio signals to measure blood flow in targeted regions of the brain, which reflects the level of brain activity. The fMRI studies revealed greater activity in the amygdala in response to the shock-associated square during fear acquisition--a finding that ...Heat-controlled drug implants offer hope for future
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