OHSU study finds ginkgo beneficial for MS symptoms
...faster than the placebo group on a timed color and word test that measures attention and such "executive f...s printed with different-colored inks, such as the word "green" printed in red, and asked to read the word. Finally, patients are asked to describe the ink ...St. John's Wort only minimally effective in relieving major depression, review confirms
...me from the patron saint of nurses and Old English word for "plant." The mechanism by which it acts is unclear, but St. John's Wort is known to contain at least seven groups of components that may contribute to its pharmacological effects. While some of the components individually have been shown to have ...... finding no effect. They emphasized that they used word labels so that the cognitive input would be "high level and semantic," as opposed to a picture, which could have been a lower-level association in the brain. "The results thus show that cognitive inputs can be very important in influencing subjective...Stanford bioethicists want stronger protections for women donating eggs for stem cell research
...re, those journals should move away from using the word "therapy" to describe the research. By adopting these changes, Magnus and Cho hope that women donating much-needed eggs will make those donations with a clear understanding of the risks and benefits of their decision....When it comes to politics, reactions are often instant
... introductory political science course. A "prime" word such as DEMOCRATS was flashed on a computer screen followed by a "target" word such as Cancer. The student subject had to decide if the second (target) word had a positive or neg...K-State researcher discovers compliments go a long way to improve body self-image in women
...s anxiety over her looks. Courtney Fea said a kind word can reduce a woman's shame about her body if she looks at herself negatively. "What we found was that for women who look at themselves as bodies, if you compliment them, they do feel better about themselves," Fea said. "And it doesn't matter what kin...Possible treatment found for 'chemobrain'
... the phone. "I wouldn't be able to think of a key word in a sentence," she said. "I felt like the word was in back of my brain. I just couldn't drag it forward quickly enough." Before receiving treatment...Research results from the 'Era of Hope' Department of Defense breast cancer research program meeting
...p of family, friends, acquaintances and others via word of mouth, 83% of respondents said they would be interested in a screening device they could use at home. Most of the women's concerns related to the reliability and sensitivity of the device and their ability to use it by themselves. In addition to...Research: Noise, visual cues affect infants' language development
...'s especially hard for the infant to know when one word ends and another begins. That is why infants need ...th their left and right side. One set repeated the word "cup" from the earlier passage, and the second set emphasized an irrelevant word, such as "dog." The...Cancer patients do better with surgeons, hospitals that treat higher volume
...we can identify those factors, we could spread the word and support smaller hospitals and physicians that serve smaller populations," she said. However, conclude the authors, " it appears that high-volume providers are associated with a significantly better outcome, at least after complex surgery for can...Brain's own marijuana-like chemicals play key role with stress-induced pain relief
...urface of cells, called cannabinoidreceptors. (The word cannabinoid comes from the Latin name for themarijuana plant, Cannibis.) For instance, the active component inmarijuana, THC, is a cannabinoid, and these receptors are activated whena person smokes the drug. The body's natural cannabinoids function t...Mental processing is continuous, not like a computer
... processing what they heard even before the entire word was spoken. "When there was ambiguity, the partic...uous competition. They sort of partially heard the word both ways, and their resolution of the ambiguity was gradual rather than discrete; it's a dynamical ...Voice-to-voice translation machine perfects bedside manner
...ystem specifically for use in Transonics. Spoken word recognition. This is Narayanan's specialty. Just ... what is being communicated instead of doing exact word for word translation," Narayanan says. Additionally, the system uses the human ability to read text...Estrogen, estrogen-like drugs' ability to protect brain after stroke under study
... group has more proliferation, neurogenesis is the word we use, going on in the subventricular zone of the brain four days after stroke." Low and higher estrogen doses seem to work equally well; the jury is still out on whether tamoxifen and raloxifen can do the same. Dr. Brann is still looking at their...Female adolescents trendsetters in teen talk
...et older. Fifteen- and 16-year-old females use the word like the most frequently out of all age groups but...emales across all age groups studied also used the word so to emphasize something more than males. "When the kids are still in primary school, their languag...Habit leads to learning, new VA/UCSD study shows
...veral sessions conducted over several weeks. The word "correct" was on the bottom of the correct object, and could be read after the object was picked up and turned over. At the beginning of each session, the volunteers had no recollection of having performed the task previously, and even after several ...Study: Brain structures contribute to asthma
MADISON -- The mere mention of a stressful word like "wheeze" can activate two brain regions in asthmatics during an attack, and this brain activity may be associated with more severe asthma symptoms, according to a study by University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers and collaborators. The study...Psychologists find more sensitive tests for predicting Alzheimer's as well as changes in cognition
...articipants may already have lost key knowledge of word attributes that normally help people to more easil...-risk participants reported a vague sense that one word had something to do with another, but they couldn't say exactly what. The authors suspect they could...'POZ parties' signal potential to spread HIV 'superinfection'
...itive gay men, to which recruitment was largely by word of mouth. They are now held several times a month, with information about venues posted on a website and emailed out to some 5000 people. And the concept has spread to several other major cities across the USA, as well as to Canada, Australia, and W......ed a full year of traditional recruitment (fliers, word of mouth and memorandums) for a trial of patients with type 2 diabetes. At the end of the year, they activated what they call a Clinical Trial Alert (CTA) system. After the CTA was activated, Dr. Embi's team noticed an eight-fold increase in the numb...