Some autistic people have memory advantage for certain tasks
...ts' ability to recognize which words had been on a word list. The...al of 12 words from each of 24 word lists and, after hearing each list, were asked whether or not certain words had ...Connecticut researchers receive national award
...tional meeting, in Washington, D.C. "If theres one word to summarize my work with azithromycin, its serendipity," said Bright, a synthetic organic chemist at Pfizer Inc.s central research division. The antibiotic kills a broad spectrum of microbes -- from haemophilus and respiratory infections to chlamydi...UIC chemists synthesize potent anticancer compound
...The compound, laulimalide, named from the Hawaiian word laulima, "to work together," attacks cancer cells in a manner similar to the successful cancer drug Taxol but appears to be far more potent against tumors that have developed multiple-drug resistance. Discovered more than 10 years ago, laulimalide, w...Preventing radiation damage in popular medical technique
...e are a lot more injuries, and we want to get the word out on how to avoid them," he says. Unfortunately, many medical practitioners may be unaware that these radiation-based tissue injuries are created, says Wagner, who will show a sequence of them at a weeklong exhibit taking place at the RSNA meeting....Researchers image language recovery after stroke
...ks. For example, participants were asked to form a word that starts with "cou". When they think of a respo...ants, but performed normally on the easier task of word reading. "This is a good behavioral control," says Corbetta. "It confirms that this region is necess...Duke orthopedic surgeon bucks conventional wisdom; develops surgical approach for broken collarbones
...ned the Duke orthopedic faculty in 1998 and as the word spreads about theprocedure, more patients are traveling to the Duke Sports Medicine Clinic for treatment. Whileat first he primarily took care of injured military personnel, his new patients now tend to be athletes and motor cross racers. For Lemire...Acupuncture calms nerves, improves heart function
...r aloud, or by a color/word conflict test. In the word test, names of colors are written in ink different from the printed word. Participants must say the name of the color, not read the word. The acupuncture group took the stress test again, but this time acupuncture needles were inserted and left i...NSF grant will enable UNC scientists to make child development research more useful
...One of many things we're going to do is to get the word out to policy-makers, members of Congress and others that we must recognize the complexity of childrens development and not allow oversimplified accounts to direct our policies toward children," said Cox, the center director. "Because children exist ...Researchers identify for the first time proteins vital to maintaining nervous system architecture
...r ig, regions. The "z" comes from zwei, the German word for two....Robotic physical therapy improves movement long after stroke
SAN ANTONIO, Feb. 8 While the word robot conjures up Danger, Will Robinson images for many Americans, a diminutive 30-inch robot named MIT-Manus is challenging conventional wisdom about stroke rehabilitation, according to a preliminary study presented today at the American Stroke Asso...Stress causes heart-damaging fats to stay in blood longer
... prepare and give a videotaped speech, a difficult word problem task, a psychomotor task consisting of drawing mirror images, and a task where they had to quickly and accurately subtract two digit numbers from four-digit numbers. Again, their ...'Bird brains' take heart-our feathered friends are no slouch at cognition
...xciting," Pepperberg said. Children begin to order word combinations and object combinations at approximat... may be the very first stages of using syntax, the word patterns involved in language. Dr. Pepperberg doesn't think Griffin is necessarily using syntax when...Training can improve age-related memory decline in elderly
...ubjects to make a decision about what category the word fell in -- for example, whether it was abstract or concrete. And when we did that, the older adults showed increased activity in these frontal regions, and their memory performance improved." The researchers found that memory support strategies had ...Eye drops to treat childhood eye disorder work as well as patching the eye
...t Study The term amblyopia derives from the Greek word for dullness of vision. It is estimated that amblyopia affects two or three of every 100 children in the United States. The disorder is caused by conditions that affect normal visual development. These conditions can include an imbalance in the posit......took WO to identify them. For example, WO sees the word moose as pink, so they printed it in pink letters and he sees the word charge in green, so they printed it in blue. They found that it took him longer to name words where ...Teaching computers to replace lost sounds
...hen a pilot communicates with the control tower, a word or two may be drowned out by thunder or some other loud noise. Almost instantly, the computer would reconstruct the words to ensure safe communication between the airport and the airliner. Hearing aids could connect to a chip and work in the same fas...Many rural residents living with HIV continue risky behaviors
... be reluctant to ask for information for fear that word of their infection will spread through their hometowns. In either case, many rural residents are not receiving information about the dangers of unprotected sex. For example, some HIV-infected rural residents in the study who are in relationships wi...... a piano could have an earthy, musky smell and the word grass might elicit the color purple. This is not a...tal imagery. Some people see the actual letter or word as a color, others get a wash of color, others get a feeling of color," says Rich. Rich describes on...