Training improves cognitive abilities of older adults
...ining group were taught strategies for remembering word lists and sequences of items, text material, and main ideas and details of stories. Participants in the reasoning group were taught how to solve problems that follow patterns. Such strategies can be used in tasks such as reading a bus schedule or fi...People with food allergies should not only be careful about what they eat
...e a food allergy. A Mayo Clinic physician offers a word of caution on Valentine's Day with a case report in the February issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings. David Steensma, M.D., Mayo Clinic hematologist, writes about the case of a 20-year-old woman who is allergic to shellfish and experienced a severe all...Yale researchers identify two types of childhood reading disability
...ely and then, they need to know the meaning of the word to help them decode and comprehend the printed mes...h the ability to sound out words and to understand word meanings would be beneficial in children at risk for reading difficulties associated with disadvanta...Short-term dyslexia treatment strengthens key brain regions
... does the "er" in "builder" make it related to the word "build"? does the "er" in "corner" make it related to the word "corn"?). Both skills are key elements of the reading process. Both dyslexic children and normal rea...Innovations in hearing loss detection & treatment
...borhood Activation Model (word-usage frequency and word confusability). Each sentence had three target words that were used as the measure in an adaptive threshold technique. Ten listeners with varying degrees of hearing sensitivity participated in five test sessions over 5 to 10 days. Data indicated word...UIC project may reduce drug name confusion
...something people do a lot, Lambert says. We hear a word pronounced correctly but perceive it as a different, more familiar, word with a similar sound. We hear what we expect to hear. Many of the medication errors that contribute ...Wrist bands can ease cancer nausea, especially for patients who expect them to work
...d them but didn't expect them to help. That's the word from researchers at the James P. Wilmot Cancer Center, who carried out the largest scientific study yet of two products that some believe can reduce nausea. The results, which researchers say point to the power of the placebo effect, were published i...Sage improves memory, study shows
...e oil capsules performed significantly better in a word recall test. The team, from the Medicinal Plant R...iven placebos. The volunteers then took part in a word recall test and tested at intervals to see how many words they could remember. Results showed that ...Prescription drug utilization reviews are less than useful
...ky "help" messages that pops up on your computer's word processor the software wants to help you write a letter, while you are trying to do something completely different," said Strom. "Eventually, you learn to ignore the message." Drug utilization review programs are supposed to work through two mecha...Exercise for elders: It's never too late
...weaty, physical labor, Ory says. In fact, even the word "exercise" should be replaced with something less intimidating like "physical activity." "While audiences need motivation and encouragement to get moving, they are also hungry for specific directions and guidance," she says. Instead of vaguely sugges...Stages of memory described in new study
...s. "To initiate a memory is almost like creating a word processing file on a computer," explains the study's first author, Matthew Walker, Ph.D., instructor of psychiatry at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School. "Once the file has been created, if you don't hit the 'save' button...Study: Doctor's communication style may sway cancer patients
...ng the best treatments." She also chronicled their word choices and the information they shared. "Patients will likely never know all of the factors contributing to a physician's recommendation for a particular trial, or the oncologists' stance toward trials in general. All they have in front of them is h...Unusual form of memory loss often confused for Alzheimer's disease
...t. Others develop agrammatism, using inappropriate word order and misusing word endings, prepositions, pronouns, conjunctions and verb tenses. Language is the only area of promine...Both languages active in bilingual speakers
...one for English, telling the subjects to speak the word in that language. "If we cannot prevent ourselves from having both languages available simultaneously, then we cannot devise a means for suppressing one language," Kroll says. "Instead, we forced the subjects to think about them both at the same ti...ACP publishes 'Medical Meanings,' second edition
...the recent coinage of others. "The etymology of a word should never be confused with its current definition," writes Dr. Haubrich. Some words, like amnesia, have retained their Greek origins, while artery comes from the Greek combination of "aer" (air) and "tereo" (I carry), and was the ancient term for ...New guidelines on unrelated marrow transplants: A roadmap for physicians
...ree of HLA molecule mismatching although the final word is not in on how mismatched the donor and recipient can be. The physician must compare the risks of a transplant with the best available mismatched donor to the risks of other treatment to make the best decision for the patient. With these practical...What makes peppers hot may also be cool for what ails you
The word 'capsaicin' doesn't exactly roll over the tongue easily, but this is especially appropriate since it is the name of the chemical that makes peppers hot and gives a surprisingly wide variety of other products a real bite. Chemical & Engineering News ...Dyslexia may involve both vision and hearing
...ather than simply a problem "decoding" the written word reported researchers from Wake Forest University ...he average person very quickly matches the written word "dog" with the sound "dog," a child with dyslexia may have much more difficulty." Lynn Flowers, Ph.D...Rochester chosen to focus on rare neurological diseases
...ology. It was Griggs who, 10 years ago, coined the word "channelopathies" to describe diseases caused by abnormal cell channels or gates that regulate the levels of crucial chemicals such as sodium, calcium, and potassium in our cells. Griggs' center will focus on three channelopathies: periodic paralysi...Better brain imaging helps surgeons avoid damage to language functions
...fective due to the integration of a "false memory" word processing test that asks patients to remember a l...ated meanings or similar rhyming patterns. "These word processing tasks were chosen because direct comparisons of meaning and rhyme processing have been sh...