News tagged with electrophysiological evidence

That gut feeling may actually reflect a reliable memory

You know the feeling. You make a decision you're certain is merely a "lucky guess."

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Feb 08, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (10) | comments 2




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Do all student athletes need heart screenings?

Seemingly every year there are reports of a young, apparently healthy athlete dying on the court or playing field.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 23, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Modeling retinitis pigmentosa with iPS cells

Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) is a cluster of genetically determined eye disorders that cause visual defects such as night blindness and narrowing of the field of vision, due to progressive loss of rod photoreceptors. ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 09, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

'Healthy' patients at high risk of cardiac death identified

(PhysOrg.com) -- The way the heart responds to an early beat is predictive of cardiac death, especially for people with no conventional markers of cardiovascular disease, according to new research from Washington University ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Feb 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Study shows delayed-enhancement MRI may predict, prevent strokes

Researchers at the University of Utah's Comprehensive Arrhythmia and Research Management (CARMA) Center have found that delayed-enhancement magnetic resonance imaging (DE-MRI) holds promise for predicting the risks of strokes, ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Feb 08, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Recycling pacemakers may alleviate burden of heart disease across the globe

Millions worldwide die each year because they can't afford a pacemaker. Meanwhile heart patients in the United States say they'd be willing to donate theirs after death to someone in need.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Oct 19, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study overturns decade-old findings in neurobiology

In findings that should finally put to rest a decade of controversy in the field of neurobiology, a team at The Scripps Research Institute has found decisive evidence that a specific neurotransmitter system -- the endocannabinoid ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created May 12, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

What insulin (and leptin) say to the brain

A report in the April issue of Cell Metabolism offers new evidence to explain just what message insulin delivers to our brains.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Apr 06, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Modified adult stem cells may be helpful in spinal cord injury

Researchers at UTHealth have demonstrated in rats that transplanting genetically modified adult stem cells into an injured spinal cord can help restore the electrical pathways associated with movement. The results are published ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Feb 24, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Brain responds to human voice in one fifth of a second

(PhysOrg.com) -- Psychology researchers have found the sound of the human voice can be recognised by the brain in less than one fifth of a second.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Finding the seat of language? Researchers look into Broca's brain

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of Harvard and University of California, San Diego, researchers report having pinpointed an area of the brain where three essential components of language -- word identification, grammar, ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (5) | comments 2


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