Archive: 12/01/2016

People who experience rage attacks have smaller "emotional brains"

Neuroimaging studies suggest that frontolimbic regions of the brain, structures that regulate emotions, play an important role in the biology of aggressive behavior.

Jan 12, 2016

Computer vision techniques for laparoscopic surgery training

A team of European researchers, including an UPM group, is currently working on the development of training technologies and surgical evaluation based on laparoscopic videos assessments.

Jan 12, 2016

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Is community water fluoridation cost effective?

New research from Massey University shows community water fluoridation remains cost effective, despite an overall reduction in the average number of decayed teeth in both fluoridated and non-fluoridated communities.

Jan 12, 2016

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What should be the role of computer games in education?

Game advocates are calling for a sweeping transformation of conventional education to replace traditional curricula with game-based instruction. But what do researchers have to say about this idea and what is the role of ...

Jan 12, 2016

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Experts call for more tailored liver cancer care in developing countries

International liver cancer guidelines could be preventing patients from getting life-saving treatments in developing countries, according to a new study published in the journal Heliyon. The authors of the research are calling ...

Jan 12, 2016

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The band of psychiatrists who are looking to reclaim psychedelics for medicine again

At 6.30am on Thursday 29 October 2009, Friederike Meckel Fischer's doorbell rang. There were ten policemen outside. They searched the house, put handcuffs on Friederike – a diminutive woman in her 60s – and her husband, ...

Jan 12, 2016

Cellular pathway discovered that may re-energize immune cells to eliminate HIV

Researchers at the University of Hawai'i (UH) and Oregon Health Sciences University (OHSU) have revealed a novel new immune pathway that can be targeted to increase the immune system's ability to eliminate HIV, the virus ...

Jan 12, 2016