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  Incubator Enables MRI Scans on Preemies for Preventing Birth Asphyxia

  Designed by a team of doctors, nurses, and engineers, a specially designed incubator allows premature babies to receive MRI scans to assess their health. The scans can measure many indicators, such ... > more
• Virtual Reality
  Virtual Environment
  Educational Psychology
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  Psychologists, Human-Factors Engineers Design Computer-Generated Educational Outings

  Psychologists Janis Cannon-Bowers and Alicia Sanchez are part of the team that created virtual reality field trips -- not just for fun, but to help children learn. Employing some of the latest ... > more
• Brain Tumor
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  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
• Sleep Disorders
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  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
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  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
• PTSD
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  Engineers Create New Helmet to Help Troops Hear Better on Battlefield

  Wearing a helmet can make it hard to figure which direction sounds -- such as gunfire -- is coming from. Soldiers in Iraq are using a new helmet, called the Advanced Combat Helmet, which is padded ... > more
• Information Technology
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  Physicists' Invention Opens Access to Computers for Persons with Tremors

  For $100, people with tremors could finally be able to use a computer mouse. A new mouse adapter filters out the high-frequency, shaky component of the movement, transmitting only the steady ... > more
• Teen Health
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  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
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  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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