Brain cell and face perception research wins Eppendorf/Science Prize
...e temporal lobe in the macaque brain where neurons respond more strongly to faces than any other objects. She...ed that each face-recognizing neuron is "tuned" to respond to a set of facial characteristics, including overall facial shape and iris size. "Each cell acts as...Experimental ragweed therapy offers allergy sufferers longer relief with fewer shots
...eroids. However, when people with allergies do not respond to these treatments or experience severe symptoms, the next therapeutic option is a course of subcutaneous injections of the allergen, which is called allergen immunotherapy. Although this standard immunotherapy is often effective, it has two major d...German researchers develop first non-invasive test to measure skin aging
... quantum processes, collagen and elastin will then respond by glowing blue and green. Currently, dermatologists who want to check out the collagen network of a patient's dermis need to remove a sample of tissue and analyze it in the lab, under a microscope or by other methods. In particular, it is impossibl...Rutgers College of Nursing to host Preparing for Natural Disasters Forum November 3
..., schools and infection control and volunteers who respond to disasters. The conference is sponsored in part by a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration grant #T01HP01407....OHSU researchers demonstrate how white blood cells cannibalize virus-infected cells
...zation. Measuring the levels at which CD8+ T-cells respond to and consume a candidate vaccine could likely determine whether that vaccine is effective in educating the body's immune system as to what diseases to look for....Heart Rhythm Society publishes final recommendations for heart patients
...device when considering with their patients how to respond to an advisory notice that a device malfunction has been identified. Manufacturers: Should use expanding wireless and remote monitoring technologies to identify abnormal devices earlier and automatically. Should establish independent, standin...Spinal cord stimulators tested as treatment for patients with migraine headaches
...his therapy may help migraine sufferers who do not respond to other available therapies, or who cannot tolera...S., and up to 10 percent of these patients may not respond to existing treatments. "Occipital nerve stimulation has the potential to provide relief to the la...Bird flu vaccine additive may stretch supply
...ance that increases the immune system's ability to respond to a stimulus. For this research, the investigators used inactivated H9N2 influenza vaccines--not the H5N1 virus currently feared as a potential pandemic strain. However, the study does suggest that if the feared pandemic comes to be, adjuvants might...St. Jude finds clues to hearing loss from chemotherapy
...his test determines whether a particular mouse can respond to high frequencies by recording electrical activity from the hearing nerve and other parts of the brain in response to brief, high-frequency sounds. The team identified 17 families that showed evidence of hearing loss. The investigators then determi...Emotional control circuit of brain's fear response discovered
...activity predicts whether a depressed patient will respond to medication, said Dr. Etkin. The findings from the current study, therefore, may help explain why more rostral cingulate activity may be beneficial.facial expressions. The research team that worked on the 2006 Neuron paper also included Columbia U...First evidence that musical training affects brain development in young children
...t only do the brains of musically-trained children respond to music in a different way to those of the untrai...n addition, the time that it took for the brain to respond to the sounds (the latency of certain MEG components) decreased over the year. This means that as ch...UCSD researchers create roadmap to integrin activation
...es other proteins we found we can get the cell to respond to certain agents that, in turn, activate platelet integrin GPIIb-IIIa." Using a synthetic approach, the scientists engineered an integrin-activated pathway. By adding protein kinase C, talin or mutants to manipulate the system, they hope to define...Mirrors in the mind: New studies elucidate how the brain reflects onto itself the actions of others
...suggesting that a particular area of the brain can respond similarly to execution of an action and its representation in different types of sensory cues. Intriguingly, the researchers also found that of the subjects taking part in the experiment, those that scored higher on tests for empathy activated the s...Insufficient sleep associated with poorer blood glucose control in African Americans with diabetes
...s--which occurs when the body loses the ability to respond to the insulin that converts glucose into energy--may contribute to sleep problems. Kristen L. Knutson, Ph.D., of the University of Chicago, and colleagues conducted a study of 161 African-Americans with type 2 diabetes, including 42 men and 119 wom...Brain's action center is all talk
...ng that in future studies the premotor cortex will respond more strongly to novel images than to "frozen metaphors," otherwise known as clichs a finding unlikely to floor anyone, knock their socks off or cause their jaw to drop. Arbib carried out one of the first studies of mirror neurons in humans with G...Cardiologist's 'living chip' changes science of disease monitoring
...ntury medicine recognizes that individual patients respond differently to diagnostic and therapeutic interventions," Rosero said. "The key to personalizing an individual's care is to improve the manner in which one can detect abnormalities in chemical signals or physiologic activity in real-time using techno...Bacteria get off easy in sinus infections
...nose are linked to chronic sinusitis that fails to respond to the usual current treatments. An estimated 3...team found that in chronic sufferers who failed to respond to treatment, the activity of at least four genes in the body's nasal immune defense system were sev...'Ticking time bomb': Prisons unprepared for flu pandemic, says new SLU research
... "Ideally, they will help authorities prepare and respond to anything from a bird flu breakout to a biological attack. The information is also critical for existing illnesses within prisons, like HIV, not just emerging infections."...New drug target might sidestep gleevec resistance, Jefferson scientists show
...e, Dr. Calabretta says. Yet, in leukemia cellsthat respond to treatment with Gleevec, expression of C/EBP-alpha increases. The researchers looked at what might happen if C/EBP-alpha was turned back on in blast crisis patients and in CML patients who were resistant to Gleevec. Reporting in the journal Blood...New treatments for epilepsy may benefit patients at University of Virginia
...ver, patients with some types of the disease don't respond to surgery or may be at high risk for complications. That's why new devices surgically implanted in the brain itself offer hope for an effective epilepsy treatment. Neurologists at the University of Virginia Health System are now testing two separ...