How Ritalin Enhances Memory: Clues Provided By Brain Scans of ADHD Patients Using The Drug
...Schweitzer et al., 1997) a dysfunction in the same right frontalmedial region in patients with ADHD when asked to perform a working memory task. Working memory is a fairly new term that replaces and expands upon theconcept of short-term memory. Researchers have theorized that working memoryserves n...Pairing Two Drugs With Angioplasty May Offer Best Success In Treating Heart Attacks
...w (46 percentof patients), compared with using the right dose of a clot-buster and a "superaspirin" (63 percent of patients in this study had full blood flow after anhour). Abciximab, known under the trade name Reopro, has been dubbed theultimate aspirin because it stops blood from clotting, and r...This Week's Forecast May Be A Heart Attack
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...s is about a seven millimeter increase -- just the right length for normal vision with no refractive error. Refraction refers to the deflection of a ray of light as it enters the eye. As it goes in the light is bent or refracted. With normal vision, the image of a distant target comes into focus ...Campaign Targets Oral Complications Of Cancer Treatment
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...et up, images viewed on the left go directly tothe right side of the brain for processing," Heilman said. I...de would really grab your attentionbecause it goes right to the hemisphere that is dominant for attentionalfunctions." In an age when scientific research oft......atial storage tasks activate specific areas of the right cortex,and storage of information about objects, such as smiling vs. frowning faces,activates still different, more ventral, or lower, regions at the front of thecortex. Smith and Jonides also found that two of the fundamental executiveprocesses---pa...