How brain gives special resonance to emotional memories
...g involves the use of harmless magnetic fields and radio signals to measure blood flow to individual brain regions, which reflects greater activity in those regions. Then, following the scanning session, the researchers tested participants memory for the images they viewed during the scanning. Two importa...Elastic nails help children with broken legs recover faster than traction and body casting
...15 to 20 inches in length and about the width of a radio antenna. Often two nails are necessary for treatment of a fracture. Surgeons remove the nails after the fracture heals, typically six to nine months after surgery. Since 1996, surgeons in the U.S. have implemented the use of elastic nails more freque...Ecstasy users get advice from friends and web not parents
... infrequently. Parents, mainstream newspapers and radio were considered the least accurate sources of information. The findings from this study provide insight into preventing MDMA use and reducing associated morbidity among young people....Northwestern Memorial tests 'pacemaker' for stomach
... by a programmer or hand-held computer that uses radio waves and programming software to communicate with the implanted study device from outside the body, like a remote control. The programmer can change the type of electrical signals delivered to the stomach. Once implanted in study participants, th...HHS launches diabetes prevention campaign
...onal tip sheets for consumers as well as print and radio public service ads. Each set of materials is specifically tailored for one of the high risk groups: African Americans; Hispanic and Latino Americans; American Indians and Alaska Natives; Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders; and, ...Sounds of New York, evidence for a preferred ear, ultrasound for the eye
...irst meeting, from May 10-11, 1929. Back in 1929, radio was the dominant entertainment medium. Films with recorded soundtracks, or "talkies," had only been out for two years. Hi-fi stereos were unavailable... The concept of ultrasound was mostly unknown except to some laboratory scientists. Fast forwar...Novel MRI technique provides clear images of blood flow
...t of water molecules in tissue to align. Pulses of radio frequency waves perturb this alignment, and the mo..."tag" protons within the water of blood cells with radio frequency waves as they pass through the plane of the MRI scan. Since all other tissues surrounding ...NYU Child Study Center and The Bear Stearns Charitable Foundation launch outreach campaign
... plan to follow the television PSAs with print and radio public service announcements. As the sole corporate sponsor, The Bear Stearns Charitable Foundation has helped underwrite the cost of the initiative. ...Mount Sinai to offer NearVision CK
...probe thinner than a strand of human hair to apply radio waves in a circular pattern on the outer cornea, shrinking small areas of tissue. This circular pattern creates a constrictive band (like the tightening of a belt), increasing the overall curvature of the cornea to improve the patient's near vision....Study supports new theory for nicotine's protective effect against neurodegenerative disorders
...by nicotine, similar to turning up the volume of a radio signal, causes brain cells to increase the release of neurotransmitters depleted in diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. The USF study suggests that nicotine may also protect the brain through another, more indirect route -- by quelling t...Britain not doing enough to stop people from smoking claim public health experts
... the then Australian Prime Minister John Howard on radio over the issue of inadequate funding for anti-smoking campaigns. He joined Imperial in 2001, as Professor of Primary Care Epidemiology. Professor Jamrozik adds: "Most Australian States now have legislation making all restaurants smoke-free, leading t...Evidence suggests that the brain can switch to 'automatic pilot' during learning
...ng (fMRI) -- in which harmless magnetic fields and radio signals are used to detect regions of brain activity as subjects are performing tasks. The most popular theory about neural priming holds that this reduction in cortical activity is due to "tuning" by the cortex of its information about objects invol...Internet program and videos net nutritional benefits for kids
...seventh graders. The Web-based component included radio buttons, colorful graphics, discussion boards and online nursing students to answer questions. Studies have shown that lower income children are at a higher risk for obesity than children from higher income families, with blacks and Hispanics at the...Detecting vitamin B12 deficiency prevents anaemia and memory loss
...he way to producing a simple, automated, adaptable radio immunoassay which the partners expect will take the largest share of the world market for vitamin B12 diagnostic tests. Ebba Nexo of University Hospital of Aarhus, Denmark, describes how until recently it has not been possible to develop suitable met...Demolition tests aim to improve emergency communications
... are using buildings set for demolition to measure radio signals with the hope their work will some day lea...emolition, the NIST team placed specially modified radio transmitter modules operating in the frequency bands used by emergency personnel and mobile telephon......models suggest that nanosecond pulses of broadband radio signals could do it. "An array of such antennas would create, through superposition of electric fields, a very high electric field right where we need it," says Schoenbach....Public awareness programs can reduce the duration of untreated psychosis
...aimed at the general population through newspaper, radio and cinema advertisements, and information campaigns directed at general practitioners, social workers and high school health personnel. The advertisements and campaigns also promoted a telephone hotline number. The study included 281 patients diag...NYU Child Study Center raises nearly $3.2 million at annual child advocacy award dinner
.... The PSA campaign includes television, print and radio spots sponsored by The Bear Stearns Charitable Foundation and created by BBDO New York. The campaign, which also features the tagline, "Giving Children Back Their Childhood," is part of a larger 9/11 Public Education Campaign designed to educate pare...Freezing technique kills majority of small malignant breast cancers
...earch techniques under investigation elsewhere use radio waves, lasers, focused ultrasound and microwave radiation. The Sanarus cryoablation system uses a disposable probe that the physician guides through a small breast incision and into the center of the tumor, using ultrasound images collected during t...NYU Child Study Center to honor Larry Summers, President of Harvard and Ann Tenenbaum and Tom Lee
.... The PSA campaign includes television, print and radio spots sponsored by The Bear Stearns Charitable Foundation and created by BBDO New York. The campaign, which also features the tagline, "Giving Children Back Their Childhood," is part of a larger 9/11 Public Education Campaign designed to educate pare...