Preventing communication errors in telephone medicine
...o." During a later in-person meeting the physician discovers the patient had not spoken freely during the call because others were in the room. "Checking whether the patient can speak freely is a simple step in the communication process that could lead to patients asking informed questions that could potential...Brain researchers discover the evolutionary traces of grammar
...ences. When analysing language rules (syntax), one discovers two fundamentally different grammatical patterns. A simple rule governs the establishment of typical (probable) connections between words, like between article and noun ("a song") in contrast to article and verb ("a pleases"). The probability for a n...... (New York) on behalf of NINDS. "A researcher who discovers a previously unrecognized gene that is expressed during brain development can rapidly determine how it fits into the overall scheme of brain development," said Craig Brumwell, PhD, the GENSAT manager in St. Jude Developmental Neurobiology. "The BGEM ...