Breast-Feeding Hormone Lowers Nursing Moms' Blood Pressure
...ere measuredbefore, during and after the stressful speech experience. "A high oxytocin response appeared to help the mother limit the durationof the stress response," Light explained. "She showed a normal response duringthe stressful task, but less evidence of stress anticipating the event orrecovering afte...Study Of Women And Hearing Reveals Need For Routine Hearing Tests
...investigation of women extendingbeyond hearing and speech understanding to include psycho-social factors tha...emand effective communication. Because declines in speech understanding,central auditory processing and self-perceived communication performance arecommon, th...UF Researchers Cite Possible Link Between Autism, Schizophrenia And Diet
...ughts or plotting to harm them. In addition, their speech andbehavior can be so disorganized that they may be incomprehensible orfrightening to others. In the UF studies, researchers injected rats with the proteinbeta-casomorphin-7, one of the key constituents of milk and the part thatcoagulates to...New U-M Analysis Of Brain At Work
...on." Verbal storage tasks activate left-hemisphere speech areas, Smith and Jonidesfound, while spatial 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 fron...Program Developed At UF Enables Computer To "Emote" In Speech
...hat I looked at that triedto figure out what is in speech that makes you hear certain emotions," she said. ...hese and other elements in a commerciallyavailable speech synthesizer program, allowing it to project five emotionalstates: fear, sadness, anger, happiness an...New Surgery At Cedars-Sinai Provides Hope For Epilepsy Patient Who Has Had A Lifetime Of Seizures
...s indicated thatthere were abnormal signals in the speech cortex that corresponded with theonset of the seizures, which then traveled to the hippocampus. Prior to surgery,a Wada test, which utilizes sodium amobarbitol to put one side of the brain tosleep for testing, determined that Mary Kate's right hippoc...Radically New Type Of Surgery Tested On First Patient
...nd sensitivestructures, such as those that control speech or vision, instead of goingthrough them." Dacey is the Edith R. and Henry G. Schwartz Professor and head ofneurological surgery at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.He is testing the new technology, called the Magnetic Sur...Why Do We Make It Difficult For Students To Hear In Class?
...tical conditions that permit less than half of the speech to be understood. Generally, the problems are caus...s to help them design classrooms with intelligible speech . Finally,they will offer practical solutions to the administrative, financial andpolitical obstacle......lp scientists grapple with suchcomplex problems as speech recognition, says honorary conference chairperson ... wide variety of problems--including some, such as speech recognition,that have very little to do with chemistry. Geysen, Distinguished ResearchScientist with...Magnetic Hearing Aid Could Open New "Window" For Hearing Impaired
... neversqueals with feedback and digitally enhances speech while silencing backgroundnoise. Such a device is under development and has been tested in animals withencouraging results. Jonathan Spindel, Ph.D., a biomedical engineer andassistant professor at the University of Virginia's Department ofOtolaryngo...... Foundation,will present the keynote address. Her speech is entitled "Balancing theBiocomplexity of the Pla...nter for Environmental and Estuarine Studies. His speech is titled"Restoring the Chesapeake Bay Ecosystem: A Challenge for Science and Society." ESA Plenary...New Treatment Targets Most Malignant Brain Tumors
...lose to sensitive parts of the brain, likemotor or speech areas. To create a way of attacking those cells, after removing the tumor massFriedman surgically constructed a sealed "resection cavity" at the site andinserted a catheter into the cavity. In the next phase, a monoclonal antibody cal...Widely Used Therapy May Not Be Effective In Treatment Of Acute Stroke
...ications, surgery, and/or rehabilitation including speech therapy or physicaltherapy. The researchers found that at 7 days, patients receiving LMW heparinoid had a trend toward better recovery than did patients receiving only conventional therapy. However, by 3 months after stroke, the conventional therapy...Kids Near Airports Don't Read As Well
...y have discovered one major reason: kids tune out speech in the racket. "We've known for a long time that c...ound per se, rather they have difficulty acquiring speech recognition skills." Evans and his collaborator, Lorraine Maxwell, both environmental psychologists...Slurred speech is often a sure sign that someone's been drinking....cords." Preliminary results show that intoxicated speech is marked by jumpychanges in pitch and energy production and unsteady opening and closingof the voca...