New approach to eye training may significantly improve performance
... said. The researchers tested six volunteers with normal vision. Half of the volunteers trained first on clear, or low-clutter, displays, identifying targets or patterns ranging from dim to strong using the "amplification" or focusing in process. Then they trained on "noisy," or high-clutter, displays, exe...Study shows new antipsychotic drug prevents brain loss in schizophrenia
...etected in the olanzapine-treated patients and the normal volunteers. Patients who lost gray matter, particularly in the frontal lobe of the brain, also had greater problems with cognitive functioning, as measured by tests of verbal fluency, verbal learning and memory. Schizophrenia has always been known as...If you fill it, they will slurp, and slurp, and slurp ...
...ree soup lunch to 54 adults, half of whom ate from normal 18-ounce soup bowls, while the other half ate from...t more soup than did participants who ate from the normal soup bowl during the 20-minute lunch. Although they averaged 113 more calories than those eating fr...Study: obesity impairs immune response of mice, boosts chances of dying from influenza infection
... effect, scientists say. Compared to other mice of normal weight, which were otherwise identical, obese mice were 10 times as likely to die when infected with the flu virus. Four percent of lean mice died during the experiments, compared with 40 percent of the extra fat ones. The study, presented in San Die...Carnegie Mellon researchers open window into the ability of humans to recognize faces
..., the regions of the brain that are activated when normal individuals perceive and recognize faces also are ...ted, as the person has no means of comparison with normal face processing skills. This can have socially debilitating consequences, and on occasion children w...Pezcoller Foundation-AACR International Award for Cancer Research
...y oncogenes was a critical event in transforming a normal cell to a cancerous cell. In 1992, Cantley moved to Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital, where he and his team further explored the PI3K pathway. They postulated that the novel membrane lipid made by PI3K might act as an i...Angiogenesis factor may help tumors prepare the way for spread to lymph nodes
...ignant skin tumors in both the transgenic mice and normal mice in order to identify differences that could b...re rapidly and more extensively than did mice with normal VEGF-A expression. Both strains of mice had increased levels of angiogenesis associated with benign...Tip sheet Annals of Internal Medicine, April 5, 2005
...en, the volunteers' platelet functions returned to normal by 24 hours after stopping ibuprofen (Brief Communication, p. 506). Patients are often asked to discontinue nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, such as ibuprofen, for at least one week before surgery. This study suggests that it may not be necessar...Study shows that a kidney transplant can reverse heart failure
... of the ability of the heart to pump blood. In the normal ejection fraction, the heart is capable of pumping...rcent of the patients, pumping ability returned to normal or close to normal following the transplant. Even more dramatic, the majority of the patients with t...2005 Potamkin Prize goes to neurologists for research in early detection of Alzheimer's disease
... fide diagnostic category on the continuum between normal aging and early dementia. The impact of MCI has been enormous, and has transformed clinical and basic science research."...Asthmatics naturally deficient in antiviral immunity, report scientists
...hese cells from infection, making them behave like normal cells again. The team now believe this discovery could lead to a potential new treatment for asthma attacks by using a device similar to an asthma inhaler to top up the levels of interferons in the lungs....PSA screening for prostate cancer to be debated at annual meeting forum
...tility, incontinence and impotence. For others, a normal PSA has also be misleading. In these cases, undetected prostate cancer has grown and spread to other parts of the body, sometimes resulting in death. Nevertheless, if caught early, men have a 100 percent, five-year survival rate a surprisingly posit...OHSU researchers demonstrate how Alzheimer's disease impacts important brain cell function
...llular chemical that bonds at nerve terminals for normal neural communication. The low levels of cellular ATP at nerve terminals may lead to the loss of synapses and synaptic function, and may ultimately cause cognitive decline in AD patients. To conduct this research, Reddy and his colleagues studied 36...Institute of Medicine news: Review of HIVNET 012 study
...ort initially used an incorrect upper limit of the normal range for bilirubin levels in newborns. When the correct upper limit is applied, the trial data confirm the original HIVNET 012 investigators' findings and the subsequent DAIDS retraction. Overall, the Hopkins and Makerere researchers conducted the ...Liver may be source of 'good' cholesterol
...oncentrations of HDL were 80 percent lower than in normal mice. The mice also had higher levels of triglycerides, as do patients with Tangier disease. Until now, scientists had thought that HDL formation occurred throughout the body rather than coming mainly from one organ. They know that some of it is man...Soy and fish oil may help prevent heart attacks
...y (LF) domain components and standard deviation of normal RR intervals (SDNN). Those who received fish oil experienced a significant increase in total HF and LF domain components and SDNN. Patients who received soy oil experienced a marginally significant increase in HF and LF domain components and a sign...Certain weight control behaviors may precipitate obesity among adolescent girls
...n's physiological responses and disrupt a person's normal appetite pattern. Depressive symptoms also contributed to weight gain among adolescent girls. Besides the reasons for overeating to comfort or distract one's self, this finding in the study also showed that lack of serotonin that is usually inherent...Fifteen-year hunt uncovers gene behind 'pseudothalidomide' syndrome
...ESCO2 in Roberts syndrome, Jabs speculates. During normal cell division, every chromosome is copied, and each of the "original" chromosomes is attached to its "new" copy. While there are attachment points along the entire chromosome, the bulk of the connection is at the centromere, a chromosome's functional...Location of body fat associated with cardiovascular risk even at normal body weight
...r for cardiovascular disease and diabetes, even in normal weight individuals, according to the April 11 issu...eated or untreated. Individuals were classified as normal weight, overweight or obese based on the basis of body mass index (BMI, calculated as weight in kilo...Early stage breast-cancer rates are rising as incidence of invasive cases are leveling
...d "true" cancer because the cells have not invaded normal breast tissue has been accompanied by a flattening in the incidence of true invasive breast cancer. Both trends suggest that widespread mammography screening, along with improvements in imaging technology and increased biopsy rates, among other fact...