Archive: 29/08/2014

Learning to read involves tricking the brain

While reading, children and adults alike must avoid confusing mirror-image letters (like b/d or p/q). Why is it difficult to differentiate these letters? When learning to read, our brain must be able to inhibit the mirror-generalization ...

Aug 29, 2014

0

0

Taking preventive health care into community spaces

A church. A city park. An office. These are not the typical settings for a medical checkup. But a new nationwide study by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research shows that providing health services in unorthodox settings ...

Aug 29, 2014

0

0

Ebola outbreak began at healer's funeral according to study

The current Ebola outbreak sweeping through West Africa likely began at the funeral of a healer in Sierra Leone, according to an extensive genomic study of the virus published in Science.

Aug 29, 2014

0

0

Mobile app on emergency cardiac care aids best decisions in seconds

The ACCA Clinical Decision-Making Toolkit mobile app is now available on the App Store and Google Play.

Aug 29, 2014

App finds design solutions to everyday problems for people with disabilities

The success of an innovative design app competition, organised through our Centre for Pain Research, is cited in a recent Parliamentary Report on advances into assistive technology that could help the elderly and people living ...

Aug 29, 2014

0

0

Researcher creates a new kind of microscope to study the brain

Spencer Smith, PhD, peers through a microscope of his own creation, trying to home in on a single neuron. The cell is tiny, about 0.015 millimeters in diameter. He attempts to clamp a microscopic pipette directly onto the ...

Aug 29, 2014

0

1

Smartphone beats paper for some with dyslexia

Matthew Schneps is a researcher at Harvard University with a doctorate in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He also happens to have dyslexia, so reading has always been a challenge for him. That ...

Aug 29, 2014

Past sexual assault triples risk of future assault for college women

Disturbing news for women on college campuses: a new study from the University at Buffalo Research Institute on Addictions (RIA) indicates that female college students who are victims of sexual assault are at a much higher ...

Aug 29, 2014