Evaluating virtual reality therapy for treating acute post traumatic stress disorder
...egrate the sights and sounds of combat, as well as smell and other sensory factors. Rizzo is developing a flexible virtual reality toolset for therapists, using assets from the U.S. Army's "Full-Spectrum Warrior" videogame/training application. Brenda Wiederhold at the Virtual Reality Medical Center (San D......ls. Whether the words caused subjects to 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 stim...Only transplant center that developed comprehensive protocol for liver transplants in kids with MSUD
...ge and death. MSUD derives its name from the sweet smell of the urine. For the first time in these young patients' lives, they are able to go on vacation without fear of metabolic crisis and to eat foods, like ice cream and chicken nuggets, that normal children enjoy. All of the seven patients with MSUD wh...Does manganese inhaled from the shower represent a public health threat?
...rain," said Spangler. "The nerve cells involved in smell are a direct pathway for toxins to enter the brain. Once inside these small nerves, manganese can travel throughout the brain." Elsner and Spangler extrapolated data from rodents to estimate human exposure to manganese during showering. They found th...Study: Nose doesn't smell like the eyes see
...ogy textbooks. The textbooks say that our sense of smell converts odors into brain signals just like our vi... what happens in the eye," says Yau. "The sense of smell needs to be sensitive, but amplification isn't the only way to improve sensitivity." For example, th...Researcher says flu responders can learn from 1918 epidemic
...lack, and people reporting being able to literally smell the body decaying before the patient died." At the time, limited scientific and medical knowledge led some including prominent governmental health officials -- to identify the cause of the disease to arcane notions such as the wrath of an angry...Neurons generated in the adult brain learn to respond to novel stimuli
...luding those involved with memory and the sense of smell well into adulthood. Very recent work, in particular a number of studies from the MGH-HMS CNSR team, shows that neural precursors/stem cells can be induced to form some of the much more complex neurons in the cerebral cortex, the brain's highest-lev...Saw palmetto no better than placebo for enlarged prostate
... a placebo that convincingly duplicates its strong smell and taste. We suspect that prior trials didn't adequately address that problem." As a result, he says, "it's possible that some of the positive findings in earlier work may be due to the fact that the blinding wasn't adequate." In other words, patien...Michigan State research sheds new light on health dangers of nanoparticles
...ous membranes that may compromise its function for smell and for defending the lung from harmful airborne agents," Harkema said. In the laboratory, carbon black NPs are often used as surrogates for other CDNPs, like those found in diesel exhaust, to identify which physical or chemical features of extremely...UVa scientists hot on trail of therapies for deadly lung failure
...same class that gives people their sense of sight, smell and taste (G-protein coupled receptors.) In ARDS, patients cannot breathe on their own because fluid gets into the lungs. Essentially, the body's immune system causes lung inflammation and accumulation of fluid in the air sacs, or alveoli, leading to...Portable cocaine sensor developed at UC Santa Barbara
..., or the coffee that is sometimes used to mask the smell from dogs." At this point the new sensor detects cocaine in the blood or saliva to a degree of a few micromolars. This is equivalent to the concentration of cocaine that would result from dropping a kilogram of cocaine into an olympic-sized swimming ...Neuroscientists discover new cell type that may help brain maintain memories of smells
...hat weren't really hiding." The perception of a smell begins when odor molecules in the air interact wit...es to the possible connection between the sense of smell and Alzheimer's disease. The Case investigators found that the same biological machinery that helps...Smell of success for nanobiosensors
...tal protection or security. "The potential uses of smell technology are endless," notes Josep Samitier, the...sors, he says, represent a 'major leap forward' in smell technology and a clear example of a biomimetic devices obtained by converging Nano-Bio-Info technolo...Four out of five head lice resistant to common treatment
...re shorter application time and have a less strong smell than malathion. The authors used nit combs on a random sample of almost 300 000 primary schoolchildren at 31 schools spread across the five health authorities of Wales. All lice collected as a result of the screen were tested for resistance to ...Study reveals biochemical signature of cocaine craving in humans
...tudy, healthy subjects were allowed to observe and smell their favorite foods, but not eat them; the more the subjects desired the foods, the higher their dopamine levels went. "Finding this same association between dorsal striatum dopamine levels and cravings for food and drugs suggests that, in the human...Research documents children's exposure to pesticides, suggests need for family education
... pesticides. In general, participants considered smell the most important aspect of pesticides. "They therefore took few protective measures beyond avoiding or eliminating the smell," wrote the authors. "They did not realize that pesticides and residues often have no detectable odor." Nearly one-thir...Mice learn tasks that may help treat human psychiatric disorders
...e was hidden and also varied the outer texture and smell of the bowls. The rodents learned to find the cereal by using a cue such as the bowl's outer texture. After experience solving a number of tasks with this cue, the animals were given a new cue for finding the cereal, such as the bowl's smell. "Li......king as little as a hundred milliseconds longer to smell an odor results in more accurate identification of...rs, while animals with a highly developed sense of smell - such as dog, rat, or cat - may have over a thousand different receptor types. It is thought that p...Accelerating weight loss may signal development of Alzheimer's disease
...e reports of mild to moderate changes in taste and smell in healthy aging populations and in populations with dementia, and these factors need to be measured rigorously in future studies," the authors write. "Subtle gustatory changes could result in cumulative decreases in caloric intake or decreases in t...Researchers examine why food tastes bad to chemotherapy recipients
...patients suffer from malnutrition due to taste and smell dysfunction. "Unfortunately, these problems that impact nutrition and quality of life are underestimated and understudied by oncologists," said Andrea Dietrich, Virginia Tech professor of civil and environmental engineering (CEE). Dietrich belie...