Carnegie Mellon researchers open window into the ability of humans to recognize faces
...a can go undetected, as the person has no means of comparison with normal face processing skills. This can have socially debilitating consequences, and on occasion children with this condition have been misdiagnosed as having autism. "The potential ramifications of CP are best captured in the words of one indi...Cognitive therapy works as well as antidepressants, but with lasting effect after therapy ends
...y form of treatment is rating its effectiveness in comparison to treatments currently in use, and this study has shown cognitive therapy to be a viable alternative."...Different antipsychotic medications may have different effects on brain volume
...fferences in volume change were highlighted by the comparison with healthy volunteers, which showed no significant reductions in gray matter volume and a trajectory similar to that of the olanzapine group." "The associations between greater decrease in WBGM [whole brain gray matter] and less improvement in neur...US service academies to collaborate with UNC, Andrews Air Force Base, Duke in knee injury study
...l and anatomical, also will be examined, as will a comparison of elements that determine poor jump-landing technique between women and men and its prevalence. Preliminary findings based on 118 U.S. Naval Academy study participants showed one sustained ACL injury during their first year of follow-up (summer 200...Study finds that women with PCOS are at increased risk for cardiovascular disease
... times as likely to have the metabolic syndrome in comparison with women without PCOS in the general population. Women demonstrating characteristics of both PCOS and the metabolic syndrome were found to also have more severe insulin resistance. The researchers concluded that the metabolic syndrome and its re...Deep brain stimulation in Parkinson disease reduces uncontrolled movements
...i stimulation," the authors conclude. "Indeed, our comparison of GPi vs STN stimulation suggests that selection of a stimulation site should be influenced by symptom profile. Although GPi stimulation may be better for the patient with dose-limiting dyskinesia, STN stimulation may be better for the younger patie...Exercise may not be good enough to reduce mild hypertension in older people, Hopkins experts say
...ther than relying strictly on exercise, although a comparison of exercise to drugs requires further study. "Our next research will continue to examine demonstrable benefits from exercise, in people at risk for heart disease," adds Stewart. "Further examination of the role of decreasing abdominal fat, which drop...Suicide in one partner substantially increases suicide risk in the other
... aged 25 to 60, their partners and children, and a comparison group. The author used national Danish population, employment, and health registers to obtain information on causes of death, admissions to psychiatric units, marital status, family size, and socioeconomic factors. Women whose partner had first been ...Dermatologists use knowledge of patterns to recognize melanoma
...ologists depend on overall pattern recognition and comparison rather than specific analytic criteria to distinguish melanoma lesions (malignant skin cancer) from harmless skin moles, according to an article in the April issue of Archives of Dermatology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. Early detection is the ...Heart failure drug associated with higher risk of death
...erfect but which are effective and cost pennies in comparison with hundreds of dollars for nesiritide. And he questions the intermittent outpatient use of nesiritide, which is covered by Medicare in several states. That approach infuses patients with the drug up to three times a week, to ease ongoing non-acute ...Little evidence found for IVF as most effective infertility treatment
... time assigning women to receive no treatment as a comparison to those receiving IVF, and many women drop out of the "no treatment" groups. More studies used pregnancy rates as an endpoint rather than live-birth rates, however, Pandian says, "Live-birth rates per patient is the most important outcome to the cou...Community efforts can reduce alcohol fatalities
... (BACs) of 0.01% or higher, relative to same-state comparison communities. The concentrated intervention communities also saw declines of 20 percent for BACs of 0.08% or higher and 17 percent for BACs of 0.15% and higher. In contrast, Fighting Back communities with less concentrated efforts saw no decrease in a...Exercise training in ordinary people affects the activity of 500 genes
...been shown before. Finally, the researchers made a comparison between the effects of endurance training and the situation in patients with Duchenne's muscle dystrophy, a muscle wasting disease. Most of the muscle genes previously claimed to be specific for Duchenne were also activated with endurance training. M...All low-fat diets are not equal, Stanford study shows
...nals of Internal Medicine, comes from a meticulous comparison of two low-fat diets. One, the conventional diet, focused solely on avoiding harmful saturated fat and cholesterol. Diners ate such foods as frozen waffles and turkey bologna sandwiches. The second diet included the same proportions of fat and choles...Molecular change occurring during brain tumor progression also evident in breast cancer
...ive ductal carcinoma as well as its metastases, in comparison with normal breast tissues," said Shikha Bose, M.D., an expert breast pathologist who participated in the study. "1 chain of laminin-2, -8 and -10 is detected in newly formed tumor vessels and might be important predictors for patient outcome."...Medication combined with behavior therapy works best for ADHD children, study finds
...ey have been in the past." The study is the first comparison study of medication and behavior modification to control for the presence and absence of behavior modification that is received by a child daily from parents, teachers, siblings or peers, according to Pelham. As such, the study is the first to accur...Autism conference reports advances in early diagnosis, role of immune system and more
...ction included: Biomarkers: Amaral reported on a comparison of blood samples from 70 autistic children and 35 same age normally developing children revealed differences in proteins, metabolites and the immune system. These included elevated levels of immune system B cells and natural killer cells in the autis...Older adults with insomnia report falling asleep faster with ramelteon
...is of data from the questionnaires showed that, in comparison to those who received placebo, study participants who received ramelteon 4 or 8 mg had statistically significant decreases in estimates of time to fall asleep. In addition, after patients discontinued the use of ramelteon, there was no rebound insomn...Molecular testing in patients with rare cancer predicts response to Gleevec
...tations and drug response in a much larger, dosage comparison Phase III study. "We are pleased that the findings in this study substantiate our earlier observations," said Christopher L. Corless, M.D., Ph.D., who collaborated with Heinrich on the study. "Molecular subtyping of GIST is clearly important to u...Study demonstrates longest reported survival rate for locally advanced lung cancer patients
...mbination of drugs, or a new surgical procedure in comparison to the current standard treatment....