Dyslexia may involve both vision and hearing
...ing process is disrupted. The sights and sounds of words are inappropriately matched. So, while the 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., a co-researcher and assistant professor of neuropsy...ACP publishes 'Medical Meanings,' second edition
...sels. "Medical Meanings" contains more than 3,000 words and phrases; nearly a third have been revised and ...ition, published in 1997. The book includes common words and expressions such as hangnail, under the weather, and hair of the dog. Hangnail, Dr. Haubrich wr...Both languages active in bilingual speakers
...ents have been investigating how the mind shuffles words in both first and second languages. "In the absence of language specific cues, words in both of the second language speaker's languages compete for selection well into the process of le...Act now to secure Iraq's health
... no security. What we need is both." These are the words of a Baghdad physician quoted in The Lancet's Health and human rights section this week (see p 1324-26), which focuses on medicine in Iraq 6 months after Saddam Hussein's regime was toppled. This week's editorial (p 1249) assesses the steps taken to ...Unusual form of memory loss often confused for Alzheimer's disease
...elling errors. Some patients cannot find the right words to express their thoughts. Others cannot understand the meaning of words either heard or seen. Still others cannot name objects in their environment. In some patients with...Rejection really hurts, UCLA psychologists find
...meanwhile, has been found to be key to thinking in words and controlling behavior, urges, emotions and thought. So researchers theorize that the prefrontal cortex may inhibit the cingulate as opposed to the other way around. "Verbalizing distress may partially shut down areas of the brain that register dis...'Voice academy' Web site, funded by NIDCD grant, helps teachers address voice problems
...andle a glottal attack (a snap or click heard with words beginning with a vowel). The site is designed for kindergarten through high school teachers and college instructors, although the information also is relevant for preschool teachers, said Julie Ostrem, program associate in speech pathology and audiol...Illustrated internal medicine book features UNC faculty, famous artwork
...ey learned an important lesson, "that thousands of words cannot describe what one of his plates depicts." In each chapter, the plates are used to enhance the reader's understanding while serving as pictorial outlines of chapter content. In some cases, Netter's illustrations were revised to reflect the newe...Sage improves memory, study shows
...ecall test and tested at intervals to see how many words they could remember. Results showed that those who had taken the sage oil consistently performed better than those who had taken placebos. Sage is being investigated as a potential treatment for Alzheimer's Disease after earlier research by the MP...UIC project may reduce drug name confusion
Mixing up words that sound alike can be humorous or embarrassing -...nce of name-confusion errors. Confusing soundalike words is something people do a lot, Lambert says. We hear a word pronounced correctly but perceive it as a...SHRS researcher receives NIH grant to study communication deficits in stroke patients
...isphere stroke often have difficulty comprehending words and phrases that have more than one meaning, such ...interpretations of some language forms, especially words or phrases that have more than one meaning. Our data indicate that this isn't the case. In fact, the...False memories, failing recall are not an inevitable consequence of aging, research suggests
...onstructive process that retrieves sights, sounds, words and other seemingly pertinent information, weighs their relevance to the memory task at hand, and then weaves them into a "best available" representation of a past experience. Veridical memories are those that generally conform to reality -- memorie...Innovations in hearing loss detection & treatment
...ord 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-recognition performance improves with repeated expos...Short-term dyslexia treatment strengthens key brain regions
...ame sound?) and whether certain letter patterns in words created meaningful relationships between words (for example, does the "er" in "builder" make it related to the word "build"? does the "er" in "cor...Yale researchers identify two types of childhood reading disability
...of the disability, improving their ability to read words accurately and to understand what they read. In co...to find that the neural circuitry for reading real words is present in persistently poor readers, but has not been properly activated. "Reading is the most i...Robo-thespians help mothers of kids with cancer
...goals and desires evoked by what occurs. While the words spoken were pre-recorded by human actors, rather than synthesized, the agents "speaking" make their own decisions what to say, adapting to "twists and turns in the dialog caused by the learner's interactions." The system is still under development, s...Is a picture worth a thousand words? Not for young children
... While it takes some time to process words and sounds, visual scenes are... by the eyes are often stationary, while words and sounds are events that pass quickly. "So you have the...Nationwide improvement in nursing home care not likely, despite some changes
...e United States, rare in the Netherlands. In other words severe illness is associated with antibiotic treatment in the U.S. and with palliative treatment without antibiotics in the Netherlands. Partners in Caregiving (PIC) is a program designed to increase cooperation and effective communication between fa...Rutgers researcher: Brains in dyslexic children can be 'rewired' to improve reading skills
...l explained. "The ability to extract sounds out of words is what is called phonological awareness." Words c...interpret the very rapid sequence of sounds within words and sentences by exaggerating them and slowing them down. "These are the building blocks you have to......pairment in their ability to recall and recognize words they learned during, but not before, the tryptophan depletion time period. However, the volunteers did better on focused attention tasks, concentrated listening tasks and tasks measuring the speed of memory retrieval. The results also showed that try...