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Baby Treadmill
Kinesiologsts developed a
tiny treadmill to help
infants with Downs Syndrome
learn to balance themselves
earlier. Typically, these
children learn how to walk
at 24 to 28 months, later
than the 12 months for those
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Breaking Sound Barriers
A new high-tech glove
enables the translation of
sign language into written
text, facilitating
communication for the
hearing or speech impaired.
The glove senses movements
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Avoiding Rear-end Collisions
Psychologists studied the
way a trailing driver reacts
to a car braking directly in
front of theirs and
researchers developed an
early warning system
algorithm to prevent rear
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Medical Students Get Training In Spanish
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
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- Kinesiologists Design Tiny Treadmill To Help Balance Baby Steps In Downs Syndrome Infants
- Electrical Engineers Develop Glove That Translates Sign Language
- Human Factors Psychologists Study How To Avoid Rear-end Collisions
- Linguists Work With Medical Students To Help Them Relate To Spanish-speaking Patients
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Computer Scientists Use Technology To Help Children With Autism
Computer scientists have devised two tools to help people interact with autistic children. Videotaping interactions allows teachers or parents to replay situations and evaluate the cause of ... > more -
Sea Urchins' Genetics Add To Knowledge Of Cancer, Alzheimer's And Infertility
Researchers are using the sea urchins to study and understand diseases like cancer, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and muscular dystrophy. Although they are invertebrates, the creatures ... > more -
Podiatrist Invents Device To Make Walking Easier For Parkinson's Sufferers
Working with electrical engineers, a podiatrist has designed a pair of glasses that helps people with Parkinson's to walk with less difficulty. Parkinson's can cause people to freeze, or to take many ... > more -
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 -
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 -
Psychologists Use fMRI To Understand Ties Between Memories And The Imagination
Psychologists have found that thought patterns used to recall the past and imagine the future are strikingly similar. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging to show the brain at work, they have ... > more -
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 -
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 -
Psychiatrists Can Predict Onset of Alzheimer's with New EEG Test
Using new computer software that analyzes EEG data, psychiatrists can now better distinguish early signs of Alzheimer's from normal aging, by spotting marked differences between the left and right ... > more -
Neuropharmacologists Find Topiramate Effective For Treatment Of Alcoholism
Neuropharmacologists ran clinical trials to find that a drug called topiramate is an effective therapeutic medication for decreasing heavy drinking and diminishing the physical and psychosocial harm ... > more
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