News tagged with impaired social interaction
New technology helps visually impaired to 'see' emotions
Without vision it's impossible to interpret facial expressions, or so it's believed. Not any more. Shafiq ur Rehman, Umea University, presents a new technology in his doctoral thesis - a Braille code of emotions. ...
Apr 27, 2010 |
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Engineering autism: Mice with extra chromosome region show many autistic signs
Mice who inherit a particular chromosomal duplication from their fathers show many behaviors associated with human autism, researchers report in the June 26th issue of the journal Cell, a Cell Press Publication. The duplic ...
Jun 25, 2009 |
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Georgia Tech develops braille-like texting app (w/ video)
Imagine if smartphone and tablet users could text a note under the table during a meeting without anyone being the wiser. Mobile gadget users might also be enabled to text while walking, watching TV or socializing ...
Feb 17, 2012 |
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Building a 'blind-friendly' Internet
Rakesh Babu demonstrates how a blind person uses the Internet.
Feb 13, 2012 |
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Europe's forgotten 'religion'
Hundreds of millions of people in Europe alone are “non-religious”, but non-religion remains an understudied field. To mark the launch of a new journal on the subject, associate editor Lois Lee discusses its significance ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Aug 25, 2011 |
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IBM study identifies new generation of connected health devices
Consumers have a growing appetite for health and wellness devices, and this represents a burgeoning market opportunity for device manufacturers that has barely been tapped, according to a study from IBM. The ...
Jun 29, 2011 |
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Premature aging seen as issue for AIDS survivors
(AP) -- Having survived the first and worst years of the AIDS epidemic, when he was losing three friends to the disease in a day and undergoing every primitive, toxic treatment that then existed, Peter Greene ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Jun 11, 2011 |
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Superior sound for telephones, mobile and related devices
Telephone calls and video conferences with a sound quality that approaches that of direct communication are now possible with a new audio coding technology -- it is almost as if the discussion participants ...
May 26, 2011 |
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Monkey recall memory mirrors that of humans
A new study shows for the first time that monkeys can recall and reproduce simple shapes from memory. Identifying this recall ability is critical to our understanding of the evolution of memory and other cognitive abilities, ...
Apr 28, 2011 |
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Elevated levels of sodium blunt response to stress, study shows
All those salty snacks available at the local tavern might be doing more than increasing your thirst: They could also play a role in suppressing social anxiety.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Apr 05, 2011 |
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World's reef fishes tussling with human overpopulation
In an unprecedented collaborative analysis published in the journal PLoS Biology, scientists from 49 nations demonstrated that the ability of reef fish systems to produce goods and services to humanity increases rapidly with t ...
Apr 05, 2011 |
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Early work indicates drug used to treat alcoholism may help those with Fragile X and autism
In small, early clinical trials, adults and children with autism and Fragile X syndrome have shown improved communication and social behavior when treated with acamprosate, according to Craig Erickson, M.D., assistant professor ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Apr 04, 2011 |
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