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First reported 14 hours ago - Updated 14 hours ago - 1 reports

University of California Berkeley

How the brain “sees” a Major-League fastball

SAN JOSE, CALIF.—The human brain is far slower than a Major League fastball or a blistering tennis serve — but it has figured out a workaround.New research by University of California, Berkeley, scientists solves a puzzle that has long mystified anyone ... [Published Toronto Star Online - 14 hours ago]

Entities: University of California Berkeley, Samuel Groth, Yogi Berra, Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging

First reported 15 hours ago - Updated 15 hours ago - 1 reports

Why Hearing Voices Is No Problem for Some

Patients with schizophrenia aren’t the only ones who hear voices.$ According to international research, approximately five percent of the population hears voices, even though they are otherwise healthy.So what is the difference ? in terms of brain activity ... [Published Psych Central - 15 hours ago]

Entities: Hallucination, Schizophrenia, Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Bergen (Norway)

First reported May 25 2013 - Updated May 25 2013 - 1 reports

University of Duisburg-Essen

Why men don’t get your hints

If it seems like your guy needs a flashing neon sign to clue him in to what you're thinking, you're not too far off: Men have twice as much trouble deciphering emotions from women's eyes than men's eyes, according to a new study in the online journal ... [Published MSN Canada - May 25 2013]

Entities: Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Susan Campbell, University of Duisburg-Essen

First reported May 25 2013 - Updated May 25 2013 - 1 reports

College of Charleston

Whither Willpower?

Addiction is confusing. Both to the addict, And of course also to those around the addict. describes addiction to alcohol as akin to addiction to jaywalking: from both the inside and the outside, it is just bizarre.Debates over whether to classify addiction ... [Published Psychology Today - May 25 2013]

Entities: Impulsivity, College of Charleston, Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging

First reported May 25 2013 - Updated May 25 2013 - 1 reports

Toronto hospital places ?Do not resuscitate? order on man who told son, ?Don?t let me die?

(LifeSiteNews.com) – A Toronto hospital has issued a “do not resuscitate” for a 73-year-old man who told his son, “Don't let me die.”Joaquim Silva Rodrigues was diagnosed with progressive supranuclear palsy, a rare neurodegenerative disease similar to ... [Published LifeSite - May 25 2013]

Entities: Toronto, Adrian Owen, Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Joaquim Silva

First reported May 24 2013 - Updated May 24 2013 - 2 reports

104-yr-old guru undergoes successful spine surgery

New Delhi: Ujjain-based spiritual guru Mouni Baba, who is 104 years old, underwent a successful spine surgery at a private hospital near the national capital, weeks after going through an angioplasty operation.The surgery was performed at Gurgaon-based ... [Published zeenews.com - May 24 2013]

Entities: Angioplasty, Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Neurosurgery, Zee News Ltd

First reported May 24 2013 - Updated May 24 2013 - 1 reports

University of California San Diego

Why We ‘Grasp’ The Truth, ‘Dodge’ Questions, And ‘Fall’ In Love

Jon Hamilton has a very interesting segment on NPR about how the brain interprets language:“Just a few decades ago, many linguists thought the human brain had evolved a special module for language. It seemed plausible that our brains have some unique ... [Published Business Insider Australia - May 24 2013]

Entities: Jon Hamilton, Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, University of California San Diego

First reported May 24 2013 - Updated May 24 2013 - 1 reports

Relationship: Training your brain to be more compassionate is possible: study

LONDON: A new study finds that adults can be trained to be more compassionate, even towards really annoying people, reported WomanTribe on Friday.In a study involving 56 subjects, US researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison trained young adults ... [Published The News Tribe - May 24 2013]

Entities: Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, University of Wisconsin-Madison, control group

First reported May 24 2013 - Updated May 24 2013 - 1 reports

Future dating apps 'will be able to tell if you have good chemistry'

When you're single and going on lots of dates, you start to wish you had some sort of dating superpower. Future apps may be able to do just that, writes Seth Stevenson.RELATEDWhen you're single and going on lots of dates, you start to wish you had some ... [Published Special Broadcasting Service - May 24 2013]

Entities: Seth Stevenson, Chemistry, Pheromone

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 3 reports

New Imaging Techniques Used to Help Patients Suffering from Epilepsy

- New techniques in imaging of brain activity developed by Jean Gotman, from McGill University's Montreal Neurological Institute, and his colleagues lead to improved treatment of patients suffering from epilepsy. The combination of electroencephalogram ... [Published ScienceNewsline - May 23 2013]

Entities: Epilepsy, Patient, Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 2 reports

Scientists Train People To Not Be Jerks

To be excellent to one another, just try out some Buddhist meditation.If you're kind of a jerk, but at least concerned about your jerk-ness, take heart: researchers say they've shown it's possible to increase compassion in adults.The University of Wisconsin-Madison ... [Published Popular Science - May 23 2013]

Entities: Dictator, Buddhism, Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 2 reports

Tripura baby undergoes skull surgery

New Delhi: The 18-month-old Tripura girl, who suffers from a rare disorder called hyderocephalus in which the head size is enlarged, underwent a successful remodelling surgery of the skull at a Gurgaon hospital on Tuesday. Doctors said the girl was stable ... [Published Times of India - May 23 2013]

Entities: Fortis Memorial Research Institute, Hydrocephalus, cerebrospinal fluid, Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Quotes

...something once doesn't mean you've covered it for all time," says Susan Campbell, PhD, author of Truth in Dating: Finding Love By Getting Real. "Sometimes we need to hear over and over what a person needs--not because they don't care about us, but because people don't learn a new behaviour that quickly."

Why men don’t get your hints [Published MSN Canada - May 25 2013]

"If Mr. Rodrigues wanted to have the ventilator withdrawn or withheld, the hospital would quickly comply with the request" Schadenberg said. “The hospital should equally comply when a person wishes to have the ventilator continued or an option...

Toronto hospital places ?Do not resuscitate? order on man who told son, ?Don?t let me die? [Published LifeSite - May 25 2013]

"Surgery helps relieve pain and improves quality of life. With Guru Mouni Baba undergoing surgery at 104, age no longer remains a bar for the spine surgery" he said

104-yr-old guru undergoes successful spine surgery [Published zeenews.com - May 24 2013]

"We will do further research on the brain structure of people with auditory hallucinations. In particular, we wish to look at the brain's networks that process outside voices. This is to establish whether these voice hallucinations and the outside voices occur in the same parts of the brain. We also wish to establish if hearing voices is a genetical trait" she says

Help at hand for people with schizophrenia [Published Medical Xpress - May 24 2013]

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How the brain “sees” a Major-League fastball [Published Toronto Star Online - 14 hours ago]
Why Hearing Voices Is No Problem for Some [Published Psych Central - 15 hours ago]
Why men don’t get your hints [Published MSN Canada - May 25 2013]
Whither Willpower? [Published Psychology Today - May 25 2013]
Toronto hospital places ?Do not resuscitate? or... [Published LifeSite - May 25 2013]
Help at hand for schizophrenics [Published EarthSky - May 24 2013]
Why We ‘Grasp’ The Truth, ‘Dodge’ Questions, An... [Published Business Insider Australia - May 24 2013]
104-yr-old guru undergoes successful spine surgery [Published zeenews.com - May 24 2013]
104-year-old guru undergoes successful spine su... [Published Press Trust of India - May 24 2013]
Help at hand for people with schizophrenia [Published Medical Xpress - May 24 2013]
Acupuncture gets straight to the point of pain [Published Vancouver 24 Hours - May 24 2013]
Relationship: Training your brain to be more co... [Published The News Tribe - May 24 2013]
Future dating apps 'will be able to tell if you... [Published Special Broadcasting Service - May 24 2013]
Local remedy wins award [Published Engineering News - May 24 2013]
Brain Changer [Published Psychology Today - May 24 2013]
New Imaging Techniques Used to Help Patients Su... [Published ScienceNewsline - May 23 2013]
Scientists Train People To Not Be Jerks [Published Popular Science - May 23 2013]
Scientists Train People To Not Be Jerks [Published Popular Science - New Technology, Science News, ... - May 23 2013]
Brain uses internal average voice prototype to ... [Published MyScience - May 23 2013]
Brain Imaging Technique Breakthrough Helps Epil... [Published ITechPost - May 23 2013]
Abnormal Baseline Brain Activity in Non-Depress... [Published Elites TV - May 23 2013]
New imaging techniques used to help patients su... [Published EurekAlert! - May 23 2013]
£1.6m funding at the interface of statistics, h... [Published The University of Warwick - May 23 2013]
Brain can be trained in compassion: study [Published msn.co.in - May 23 2013]
EEG Diagnostic Specialist MentisCura Joins Stoc... [Published Business Wire - May 23 2013]
Roona Begum hydrocephalus update: Baby undergoe... [Published Indian Mirror - May 23 2013]
Tripura baby undergoes skull surgery [Published Times of India - May 23 2013]
Repetition priming effects dissociate between m... [Published Bionity.com - May 23 2013]
Seeing dreams by reading minds? [Published CERN Courier - May 22 2013]
Letter on school curriculum not accurate [Published Warren Record - May 22 2013]

Blogs

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Help at hand for schizophrenics [Published EarthSky - May 24 2013] Researchers from the Bergen fMRI Group at the University of Bergen (UiB) are working on how to help schizophrenics, who hear voices. The way they do this is by studying people who also hear voices, but who do not suffer from a mental illness. For a ...
Mass Concentration [Published The Daily Dish \| By Andrew Sullivan - May 18 2013] Contemplating how TV shows become addictive, Andrew Romano looks to a study ( pdf ) that suggests certain formats command more of our attention: Employing fMRI technology, [psychologist Uri] Hasson and his neuroscience colleagues screened four film ...
Understanding How Color Is Perceived in the Brain [Published Brain Blogger - May 17 2013] Scientists have examined the effects of language on categorical color perception — the idea that color perception is affected by how it is described in language — with behavioral research. Meanwhile, other scholars have looked into this phenomenon using ...
Video Game to Help Kids Fight Cancer [Published Scientific American - Observations - May 13 2013] Re-Mission 2: Nanobot's Revenge Doctors can’t inject cancer patients with intelligent nanobots programmed to launch surgical counterstrikes against the disease. That didn’t stop a team of medical researchers and software programmers from developing ...
In 2.007, slow and steady wins the race [Published MIT News feed - May 10 2013] Tim the Beaver, MIT’s mascot, is on an operating table and in need of several different medical procedures. That scenario, a variation of the board game “Operation,” was the basis for this year’s final competition in 2.007 (Design and Manufacturing I), ...

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CARTA: Human Origins: Lessons from Autism Spect... [Published UC Television - YouTube - Jan 17 2013]

Press Releases

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EEG Diagnostic Specialist MentisCura Joins Stoc... [Published Business Wire - May 23 2013]
Toshiba Partners with Leading Universities for ... [Published Business Wire Health News - Apr 19 2013]
The Innovative Brain [Published CisionWire - English - Feb 19 2013]
Neuromarketing Reaches “World Forum”-Status [Published PR.com Press Releases - Feb 01 2013]