The trust game: Measuring social interaction
...uch as schizophrenia and autism." Eventually, the technique might give insights into all kinds of negotiations... before the completion of the previous round. The technique holds promise for understanding diseases such as autism in which the ability to form models of the ...Satellite survey enhances knowledge of Tuscan landslides
...the basis of all three SLAM products is a powerful technique called radar interferometry. It works like a space-based version of 'spot the difference'. Multiple radar images of the same site acquired by spacecraft such as ESA's ERS or Envisat are specially combined to identify tiny changes in the landscape o...Brain activity prior to treatment flags vulnerability to antidepressant side effects
...quantitative electroencephalography (QEEG) imaging technique developed at UCLA, the research team found changes in brain function in the prefrontal region during the one-week placebo lead-in were related to side effects in subjects who received an antidepressant. "This finding shows the promise of new ways for...Optical technique identifies vulnerable plaques in cardiac patients
...ent of stable angina patients. "This is the first technique that allows us to study the structural changes underlying vulnerable plaques in living patients, and it supports the conclusions of previously reported postmortem studies," says Jang. "We still need to gather more data to confirm these characteristi...UNH launches 2nd spinout company with NIH grants
...scrambling to provide that." Hersman developed his technique for polarizing xenon, the most effective in the world, with previous NIH funding. The new grants will fund research to further refine the technology and shrink its size. "To make it practical we had to make it fit into a cabinet small enough so that...New technique shows promise for improved straightening of crooked nose
CHICAGO A surgical technique offers improved outcomes for straightening the middle third of the nose, a difficult to manage deformity, according to an article in the March issue of Archives of Facial Plastic Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. Straightening the crooked m...Envisat enables first global check of regional methane emissions
... throughout the atmosphere. It uses an innovative technique called Differential Absorption Spectroscopy (DOAS) to find spectral absorption 'fingerprints' of trace gases within sunlight transmitted, reflected or scattered by the Earth's atmosphere or surface in the ultraviolet, visible and near infrared region...Giant iceberg B-15A edges past floating ice pier
...Envisat ASAR GMM mosaics and SAR interferometry a technique used to combine radar images to measure tiny millimetre-scale shifts between acquisitions - should answer the question of whether the kind of ice-shelf calving that gave rise to B-15 and its descendants are a consequence of ice sheet dynamics or othe...Benign separation process being advanced for pharmaceutical industry
... made a discovery that may allow a green-chemistry technique known as supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC) to be used in drug development. The research will be presented at the 229th American Chemical Society national meeting in San Diego on March 13-17. Drugs must be water-soluble in order to be useful in...Study shows risk of cardiac death after radiation for breast cancer has dramatically decreased
...preciated in the 1980s, leading to improvements in technique and delivery," says Buchholz. "This study highlights the progress made more than 10 years ago. Receiving radiation will only become safer and safer for patients as we move forward, with newer radiation techniques allowing treatment to exclusively tar...Fixing of the lumbar column aided by simple radiological techniques
...litates the process and avoids complications. This technique has arisen as a result of the conclusion of the Ph...ative illness, tumours, etc. It involves a routine technique in orthopaedics and bone surgery. Nevertheless, lesion of the nerve roots can occur as a complicatio...Brain imaging studies investigate pain reduction by hypnosis
...to reduce pain perception, it is not clear how the technique works. Identifying a sound, scientific explanation..., it helps to dispel prejudice about hypnosis as a technique to manage pain because we can show an objective, measurable change in brain activity linked to a red...New fingerprint visualization method uses X-rays to reveal missing clues
...hey have developed a new fingerprint visualization technique using X-rays that leaves prints intact and, in add... for tracking criminals and missing persons. Their technique was described today at the 229 th national meeting of the American Chemical Society, the worlds lar...Nursing mothers having surgery -- How long a wait to breastfeed safely?
...ed at a lower dose as part of a conscious sedation technique along with other intravenously administered agents, including a narcotic for pain and a benzodiazepine for amnesia. The Northwestern researchers found that less than 0.1 percent of the dose of propofol used to put the patient to sleep appeared in he...Tumor-targeted immune cells cure prostate cancer in mice without causing systemic immune suppression
...group described the adoptive transfer gene therapy technique in the March issue of Cancer Research. Lee is also a researcher at The Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University. The researchers first rendered immune cells known as CD8+ T cells insensitive to transforming growth fact...New system for the analysis of facial movement in three dimensions
...ried out by static or dynamic techniques. A static technique is suitable for patients over 70. In general it consists of re-suspending the fallen part of the face with the patient's own tendons or aloplastic material. The patient cannot move the face but has the benefit of very acceptable results in rest mode ...Mouse gene shows new mechanism behind cardiac infarction in man
...arction. Hopefully it will offer a new therapeutic technique for the treatment of atherosclerosis and thus reduce the risk of cardiac infarction....Emotional memory study reveals evidence for a self-reinforcing loop
...result of the 9/11 terrorist attack have used this technique to alleviate its symptoms. In further studies, the researchers plan to manipulate the degree of emotion experienced by the subjects, as well as how much detail is remembered, to explore the specific interactions among brain structures in processing e...Student identifies electrical changes preceding heart failure
... in various stages of heart failure. Next, using a technique called optical mapping, they stained the tissue samples with voltage- or calcium-sensitive dyes, and shined a green light on the samples to excite the photosensitive dyes. The excited photosensitive dyes emitted light in different amounts depending u...New treatment options for some difficult cancers improve survival and quality of life
...x, small bowel and advanced ovarian cancer. The technique is also useful for tumors that have spread from the colon, rectum, stomach as well as well as mesothelioma of the abdominal cavity. Peritoneal cancer -- cancer of the lining of the abdominal wall -- is a very common cause of death in patients with c...