Study to assess heart effects of depression drugs during stress
...plied to the forehead, mental arithmetic test, and speech test. Blood samples will be measured for the stress-related hormones epinephrine, norepinephrine, and cortisol. Qualified participants will receive $200 for participating. The UNC investigators hypothesize that people taking one of the antidepressan...Duke geneticists unraveling the tangled web of autism
...imilar behaviors in some of the children. Some had speech delay, lack of social skills, and "stereotyped" or repetitive behaviors, that seemed to cluster in together with a specific genetic defect. In addition, these children had seizures and hypotonia, or low muscle tone, characteristics that are not norma...Pets can tame high blood pressure
...n. They also told the subjects to give a 5-minute speech talking their way out of a shoplifting charge. In ...nd verbal stress reactivity tests. This time, the speech test involved trying to calm a furious brokerage client who had just lost $86,000 because of the sto......ologists, radiation oncologists, nutritionists and speech and language pathologists. ASTRO is the largest radiation oncology society in the world, with more than 5,000 members....Global prevention, funding and accountability debated in fight against HIV/AIDS
...mented response to a global crisis In his keynote speech opening the Vienna conference, former US Secretary ofHealth and Human Services Louis Sullivan argued that a "better balance offinancial and human resources made available for prevention and primary care,versus resources for acute care (including tert...... they have come up with two ways topre-process the speech signal, and thereby enhance its intelligibility, b... researchers will presentresults comparing the two speech enhancement schemes against no pre-processingfor a group of elderly hearing-impaired subjects. (2pS...For early detection of Alzheimer's, loved ones know best
... 4 million Americans, creates problems withmemory, speech and perception. Among adult Americans, it is the fourth leadingcause of death. John C. Morris, M.D., recently presented a paper on the early diagnosis ofAlzheimer's disease during a satellite symposium at the Congress of theInternational Psychogeriat...Peering into the amazing mind behind those baby blue eyes
...antsknow and how they learn. Kuhl, a professor of speech and hearing science, isone of the world's leading authorities on language and speech acquisition.Gopnik is a UC psychology professor and authority on child learning, psychologyand philo...Novel neural net recognizes spoken words better than human listeners
Machine demonstrates superhuman speech recognition abilities.University of Southern Calif...nition System not only bested allexisting computer speech recognition systems but outperformed the keenest humanears. Neural nets are computing devices that m...Pacemaker for larynx allows patients to breathe easier
...ey,Ph.D. assistant professor of Otolaryngology and speech pathologist. "The lack of airflow through her restricted airway made her voice sound verystrained and tight. Botox reduced the tension in the vocal folds and restoredher normal voice. This is an important finding since conventional surgicaltreatment......he subject up at all. A new study by aprofessor of speech communication and two graduate students at the University ofGeorgia, however, has shown for the first time that the use of condoms,especially in first-time sex, may lead to closer, more intimate andlonger-lasting relationships. And it sends the messa...Are the signs of dyslexia in a newborn baby?
...babies around 36 hours old. While playing recorded speech and non-speech sounds,they monitored the size and ...earing aid that accentuates thedifferences between speech sounds. Some research has suggested that dyslexiaarises in part from hearing problems early on. ...Stress common in AIDS victims who respond well to drug therapy
... stressors." So says Dale Brashers, a professor of speech communication at the University ofIllinois who led a team of researchers inthe first study of uncertainty caused by physical revival. The findings appearin the current issue of "AIDS Care." According to Brashers, individuals who are diagnosed with H...UK researchers examine personality and social behavior changes in patients following stroke
...o suffered from lefthemisphere damage and had more speech problems, were seen as less sociallycompetent than either patients with right hemisphere damaged or the controlgroup. "While there are individual differences in communicative competenceamong all people, brain damage in general and in stroke ...Mother's depression impedes baby's development
When depressed mothers talk to their babies, their speech lacks many of thefamiliar characteristics of "baby...at infants, who areknown to react more strongly to speech high in pitch modulation, would notlearn well about the world around them when prompted with speech ...Cochlear Implant Increases Access To Mainstream Education
...toexamine the use of special education aid such as speech therapy, interpretersand tutoring instudents with a cochlear implant, is published in the May 1 issue of Archives ofOtolaryngology--Head and Neck Surgery. Specifically, the study showed childrenwho receivedthe implant plus one year of intense auditor...Baby Talk: Parents Do Make A Difference, By Promoting Childhood Chatter, From Birth To Age 3
...s, toddlers andparenting. "The evolution of infant speech is not only available to [parents]here, but now they can contribute to it, and know when to worry and when not toworry." Silence is not golden--but forget the flashcards How Babies Talk was written with all parents, educators and child-careprofes...Nonintrusive Imaging Technique Useful For Identifying Language Regions In Kids' Brains
...orarily numbs halftheir brain. If the person loses speech as a result, the neurosurgeon knows thatthe active language areas are located in the numbed hemisphere. Lee said evenadults who understand what the hour-long test entails have trouble undergoingthe procedure. Children and adults with epilepsy, who of...Children Of Smokers Suffer Negative Health Effects Later In Life
...- and was ordered to give an impromptuthree-minute speech in his defense, also while being videotaped. If the studentstopped speaking before three minutes had passed, the researchers prompted himto continue. Students were allowed to rest between tests and let their blood pressure fallback to near-baseline l...