News tagged with muscle synergies
Muscle 'synergies' may be key to stroke treatment
Researchers at MIT and San Camillo Hospital in Venice, Italy, have shown that motor impairments in stroke patients can be understood as impairments in specific combinations of muscle activity, known as synergies.
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Oct 20, 2009 |
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Enzyme doesn't act alone in atrial fibrillation
(June 17, 2009) - An overactive enzyme is behind a leaky calcium channel that plays a role in the development of atrial fibrillation, which is the most common cardiac arrhythmia that is responsible for a third of all strokes. ...
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Jun 17, 2009 |
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Grouping muscles to make controlling limbs easier
With more than 30 muscles in your arm, controlling movement -- whether it's grasping a glass or throwing a baseball -- is a complex task that potentially takes into account thousands of variables.
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Apr 20, 2009 |
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Mechanisms of cardiovascular disease and cancer give clues to new therapies
Cardiovascular conditions leading to heart attacks and strokes are treated quite separately from common cancers of the prostate, breast or lung, but now turn out to involve some of the same critical mechanisms at the molecular ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Nov 21, 2008 |
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Fluorescent-Probe in Worm Creates Real-Time 'View' of Cellular Stress
Scientists at the University at Buffalo have created a mutant worm that changes color when it moves.
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Jun 16, 2008 |
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Biologists link Huntington's disease to health benefits in young
For years researchers in neurology have believed that people with Huntington’s disease have more children than the general population because of behavioral changes associated with the disease that lead to sexual promiscuity.
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Sep 25, 2007 |
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4 universities collaborate to synthesize new materials, nanoscale devices
The Army Research Office has awarded a potentially $7.5 million Multi-University Research Initiative (MURI) grant to scientists from Virginia Tech, the University of Pennsylvanian, Pennsylvania State University, and Drexel ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Apr 24, 2007 |
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Doctors aggressively treat early heart attacks, research shows
An international study involving 467 hospitals in 12 countries found that doctors do a good job of aggressively treating the early stages of heart attacks – even before laboratory tests confirm the diagnosis.
Apr 09, 2007 |
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