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• Brain Injury
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  Stroke Prevention
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  Elder Care
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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
• 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
• Information Technology
  Computer Science
  Computer Modeling
  Hacking
  Technology
  Distributed Computing
   
  

  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
  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
• Child Psychology
  Children's Health
  Child Development
  Nutrition Research
  Infant's Health
  Attention Deficit Disorder
   
  

  Psychobiologists Find Genetic Component in Children's Food Preference

  In the first study to link taste genes to behavior in children, researchers looked at how natural variations in a recently discovered taste gene affected sensitivity to bitter tastes and food ... > 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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