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• Today's Healthcare
  Language Acquisition
  Child Development
  Health Policy
  Wounds and Healing
  Elder Care
   
  

  Linguists Work With Medical Students To Help Them Relate To Spanish-speaking Patients

  A unique program at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center is helping health care professionals understand and treat patients better by teaching them how to communicate with patients who ... > more
• Mathematics
  Parenting
  Racial Issues
  Child Development
  Video Games
  Gender Difference
   
  

  Mathematical Political Scientists Devise New Plan For Sharing

  The Surplus Procedure, a formula developed by mathematical political scientist Steven Brams, is a new way of allocating resources to best benefit all parties. In situations in which dividing ... > more
• Eye Care
  Disability
  Computer Science
  Artificial Intelligence
  Computers and Internet
  Information Technology
   
  

  GPS Navigation System Gives Acoustical Warnings

  Human factors psychologists have teamed up with computer scientists to develop technology that can do the job of a seeing-eye dog -- help the blind walk around safely and without getting lost. The ... > more
• Hearing Impairment
  Hearing Loss
  Tinnitus
  Perception
  Disability
  Acoustics
   
  

  Cochlear Implants Work Better If Done On Both Ears

  Unlike other acoustical devices such as hearing aids, which just amplify sounds, cochlear implants mimic what happens inside the ear, changing sound waves into electrical signals sent to the brain. ... > more
• Perception
  Medical Technology
  Medical Devices
  Intelligence
  Medical Imaging
  Psychology
   
  

  MRIs Peek into the Brains of Synesthesia Patients

  Cognitive neuroscientists have now documented hundreds of cases of synesthesia -- the condition in which one sense triggers the response of a different one. Using functional magnetic resonance ... > more
• ADD and ADHD
  Intelligence
  Mental Health
  Memory
  Nature of Water
  Perception
   
  

  Doppler Sonography Helps Psychologists Measure Attention Levels

  Psychologists are finding out that even when people try to focus on a task they tend to lose concentration within 40 minutes, and sometimes as little as 10 minutes. The studies are based on a new ... > more
• Perception
  Memory
  Virtual Reality
  Optics
  Brain Injury
  Artificial Intelligence
   
  

  Vision Researchers Test Theory on Visual Orientation

  Vision researchers suspect that people who do not need maps to find their way may be remembering visual landmarks. To test this theory, the scientists are having volunteers navigate through a virtual ... > more
• Arthritis
  Consumer Behavior
  Electronics
  Technology
  Pharmaceuticals
  Engineering
   
  

  Human-Factors Engineers Focus on User-Friendliness

  Human-factors engineers -- whose training includes psychology -- specialize in testing products for usability, for example checking whether a copying machine's legs get in the way, or measuring how ... > more
• Personalized Medicine
  Today's Healthcare
  Pharmacology
  Diseases and Conditions
  Medical Technology
  Pharmaceuticals
   
  

  Psychiatrists Can Now Predict An Individual Patient's Response To A Drug

  The first in a new generation of gene microarrays, computer chips that chemically or electrically express DNA, can predict how a person's body will metabolize about 25 percent of drugs on the market, ... > more
• Intelligence
  Psychology
  Perception
  Nutrition Research
  Behavior
  Consumer Behavior
   
  

  Psychologists Link Hitting Skills to Vision

  Cognitive psychologists have discovered that baseball skills correlate with how a player sees the ball: Athletes who see the ball bigger than it is tend to perform better. In the experiments, ... > more

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