In a new journal article, a team of scientists led by Scott Atran, an adjunct research professor at the University of Michigan's Ford School and Institute for Social Research, reveals insights into the psychology of radicalization ...
Social Sciences
Jun 17, 2019
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The young man sitting in the waiting room of our neuroimaging facility wearing skinny jeans and trainers looked like a typical Spanish 20-year-old of Moroccan origin. Yassine was bouncy, chatting up the research assistants, ...
Social Sciences
Jun 12, 2019
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A large team of researchers with members from Belgium, Russia, and Germany has found that people who spend a long time aboard the International Space Station experience an increase in the size of some of their brain ventricles. ...
Mark Wolff wanted to know. To him, the thought of suffering through Alzheimer's disease the way his father did—without knowing, and without his family knowing, what he was up against until late in its progression— is ...
Aug 29, 2017
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What if a brain scan could detect the presence of a mental disorder even before symptoms have emerged? Or predict which depressed patients would respond to a particular medication and which would not? Or determine the likely ...
Mathematics
May 12, 2017
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Brain scans of canine candidates to assist people with disabilities can help predict which dogs will fail a rigorous service training program, a study by Emory University finds.
Plants & Animals
Mar 7, 2017
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From Apple's Siri to Honda's robot Asimo, machines seem to be getting better and better at communicating with humans.
Computer Sciences
Jan 11, 2016
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(Phys.org)—A group of researchers with affiliations to several institutions in the U.S. has identified some of the ways the human brain differs in the way it focuses on a task as compared to macaques. In their paper published ...
In research, sometimes setting out to demonstrate one concept actually results in proving something entirely different. It's important to be flexible.
Plants & Animals
Jun 22, 2015
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A paper published in Biomaterials studies the interaction of carbon nanotubes and the blood-brain barrier. It was carried by the Institute of Pharmaceutical Science at the King's College London. Elzbieta Pach and Belén ...
Bio & Medicine
Apr 27, 2015
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