New approach to eye training may significantly improve performance
... methods and models have been used to evaluate the processing limitation of people with visual deficits....Carnegie Mellon researchers open window into the ability of humans to recognize faces
...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 individual whom we have had the ......s the signal, it is processed with advanced signal processing algorithms, specially developed by Marmarelis' group, to form the multi-band images. Different kinds of tissue allow slightly more, or slightly less of the pulse through -- the loss is called "attenuation," and varies according to the type of tissue,...Hopkins study shows older children also benefit from 'lazy eye' treatment
... amblyopic eye often looks normal, abnormal visual processing limits the development of a portion of the brain responsible for sight. The most common causes are crossed or wandering eyes, farsightedness or nearsightedness. In the study, 507 children were randomly divided into two groups. One was fitted with ne...Nanotechnology's miniature answers to developing world's biggest problems
...and screening; 5. Drug delivery systems; 6. Food processing and storage; 7. Air pollution and remediation; 8...anges in humidity of existing medications; 6. Food processing and storage: including improved plastic film coatings for food packaging and storage that may enable...Little answers to world's biggest problems
...ening 5. Drug delivery systems 6. Food processing and storage 7. Air pollution and remediation 8. Construction 9. Health monitoring 10. Vector and pest detection and control The study also relates the impact of nanotechnologies to the United Nations Millen...Charter activation brings space dimension to European emergency exercise
...ransmitted to the Strasbourg-based firm SERTIT for processing and interpretation before delivery to COGIC. Serving as they increasingly do in real emergencies, high-resolution satellite images provide up-to-date maps of buildings, roads and railways for planning responses to a disaster and carrying out rapid da...Fatal brain disease holds clues to dementia
... that in Huntington's diseased brains, information processing between neurons is disrupted, but the neurons do n...velop anti-dementia drugs that enhance information processing for both disorders. Dr Anthony Hannan and his team collaborated with researchers from Oxford Univers...Autism conference reports advances in early diagnosis, role of immune system and more
...ad size in family members, parents' abnormal brain processing of faces, and the degree to which relatives of autistic children can read another person's mental state. One recent study by Geschwind and his colleagues validated the importance of endophenotypes in teasing out the genetics of autism. The study iden...The relationship between clinical depression and chronic pain
...termine which regions of the brain are involved in processing acute pain, chronic pain, and depressive symptoms. 42 healthy controls, 20 women and 22 men, were also included in the study. The mean age was 42 for the FM patients and 38 for the controls. Conducted at Georgetown University's General Clinical R...New fat is needed to clear old fat from the system
...pha in the liver." The liver is very important for processing nutrients consumed in the diet and sending them on to the rest of the body. Abnormal processing of glucose or lipids in the liver contributes to problems of type 2 diabetes and atherosclerosis, an...Study finds ADHD improves with sensory intervention
... "Many children with ADHD also suffer from sensory processing disorder, a neurological underpinning that contributes to their ability to pay attention or focus," explained Koenig. "They either withdraw from or seek out sensory stimulation like movement, sound, light and touch. This translates into troublesome b......o imagine a smell or simply affected their brain's processing of odors, "the important new point being made in this paper is that high-level cognitive inputs, such as the sight of a word, can influence the activity in brain regions that are activated by olfactory stimuli," they wrote....Low back pain relief, causes, measurement & prosthetic fit, production, comfort
...attention, conceptual flexibility, and information processing speed. This study shows that cognitive rehabilitation can improve attention and short-term memory for people with a dual diagnosis. Rapid prototyping technology produces comfortable prosthetic sockets This study investigates the use of a Rapid Pro...The anatomy of sarcasm: Researchers reveal how the brain handles this complex communication
...nd his/her colleagues propose a neural network for processing sarcastic utterances: 1-The left hemisphere language cortices interpret the literal meaning of the utterance; 2-The frontal lobes and right hemisphere process the intentional, social and emotional context, identifying the contradiction between the ...IBM and EPFL join forces to uncover the secrets of cognitive intelligence
... of about four refrigerators, and will have a peak processing speed of at least 22.8 trillion floating-point operations per second (22.8 teraflops), making it one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. The first phase of the project will be to make a software replica of a column of the neocortex. The...Use of high hydrostatic pressure to inactivate Hepatitis A virus in oysters studied
... will identify one or more effective high pressure processing schedules. The laboratory is a facility of the Department of Food Science and Technology at Virginia Tech, devoted to improving food safety and food processing. Hepatitis A virus (HAV) is one of the more serious illnesses transmissible by shellfish. ...Shrinking brains but healthy memory - does brain matter matter?
...ve functions - like memory, attention and speed of processing - are unaffected. "In the present study, we found no relationship between brain shrinkage and education level". Low educational attainment has been found to predict the development of major memory difficulties and the recognition of dementia in prev...Researchers discover 'window on the brain' that could help treat disorders
...re and function. The grid harnesses the collective processing power of 100 computers and makes the translational nature of this new process possible. Electrical Geodesics is a direct spin-off from research done at the Brain Electrophysiology Laboratory in the University of Oregon's Department of Psychology. EGI...NYU, Salk Institute neuroscientists offer new path for measuring visual responses to complex images
...specific stimuli. However, researchers capture the processing of only a small fraction of visual reality under t...ity of a neuron. By studying the origins of visual processing as a whole, rather than tracing how cortical neurons respond to selected stimuli, the analysis uncov...