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  Cardiologists Employ Biomedical Engineering to Safeguard Heart Patients

  To prevent strokes in at-risk patients who suffer from atrial fibrillation, an abnormal heart rhythm, researchers have devised a mechanical alternative to common drug treatments. In the procedure, ... > more
• Intelligence
  Perception
  Brain Injury
  Technology
  Transportation Science
  Optics
   
  

  Cognitive Psychologists Show Conversations Lower Visual Abilities

  A study showed that the part of the brain that controls vision becomes less active when people focus on something visually while having a conversation -- underscoring the hazards of talking on your ... > more
• Brain Tumor
  Cosmetic Surgery
  Today's Healthcare
  Diseases and Conditions
  Eye Care
  Lung Cancer
   
  

  Neurosurgeons Can Now Remove Brain Cancer Endoscopically

  For more than a century, neurosurgeons have accessed the brain through the nose, but only recently did they successfully removed tumors with such minimally invasive procedures, leading to patients' ... > more
• Intelligence
  Accident and Trauma
  Brain Injury
  Educational Psychology
  Medical Technology
  Today's Healthcare
   
  

  Doctors, Biomedical Engineers Develop Device for Diagnosing Concussion in Minutes

  Using a handheld unit attached to a laptop, doctors can now check in just five to seven minutes if a patient has suffered from concussion, by testing cognitive functions such as reaction time and ... > more
• Sleep Disorders
  Sleep Disorder Research
  Obstructive Sleep Apnea
  Insomnia
  Insomnia Research
  Child Development
   
  

  Orthodontists Diagnose Sleep Apnea More Easily with X-Rays

  Diagnosing sleep apnea -- a chronic condition that causes teen-agers to stop breathing during sleep -- is difficult and often means staying at an overnight sleep lab. A new test can spot with problem ... > more
• Brain Injury
  Stroke
  Stroke Prevention
  Caregiving
  Elder Care
  Birth Defects
   
  

  Pediatric Neurologists Use MRI to Understand How Strokes Impair Verbal Abilities

  Children who have speech-impairing strokes often learn to talk again, while adult stroke victims can lose their verbal abilities for good. By giving reading and verbal tests inside the MRI, ... > more
• Pain Control
  Neuropathy
  Fibromyalgia
  Joint Pain
  Back and Neck Pain
  Brain Injury
   
  

  Neurosurgeon Devises MRI-Based Technique to Diagnose Sciatica

  Up to 40 million American suffer from sciatica pains, but the condition is often not diagnosed correctly. A new imaging technique uses a specially tuned MRI scan to image nerves and highlight them ... > more
• Caregiving
  Robotics
  Disability
  Stroke
  Stroke Prevention
  Robotics Research
   
  

  Doctors and Engineers Develop Virtual-Reality Recovery for Stroke Victims

  Stroke survivors can often recover the use of a paralyzed arm, but it's a slow process. This could become easier with a new system made of a robotic arm and virtual reality software. The robot ... > more
• Teen Health
  Genes
  Psychology Research
  Gene Therapy
  Hormone Disorders
  Healthy Aging
   
  

  Neuroendocrinologists Unlock Chemical Trigger to Puberty

  Researchers have discovered the precise chemical chain reaction that could be the much-sought-after puberty trigger: The KiSS-1 gene, which produces a protein in the hypothalamus, a part of the ... > more
• Acoustics
  Hearing Impairment
  Hearing Loss
  Disability
  Perception
  Language Acquisition
   
  

  Acousticians Improve Sound Quality of Cochlear Implants

  In a new study, 34 normal-hearing and 18 cochlear-implant subjects were tested on three speech-perception tasks known to be notoriously difficult for cochlear-implant users: speech recognition with a ... > more

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