News at a glance: Protecting a queen, cell therapy for solid tumors, and a UV telescope
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U.S. protects iconic marine snail
The queen conch, a large marine snail known for its showy shell and delectable flesh, has been added to the U.S. government’s list of species threatened with extinction. Scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said the species (
Strombus gigas
, pictured), which is native to the Caribbean region and grows up to 35 centimeters long, needs protection because populations are sparse, scattered, and heavily overfished. NOAA’s listing decision, issued on 14 February, has no immediate impact but authorizes the age...
Source: ScienceNOW - February 22, 2024 Category: Science Source Type: news
Your Life Is Better Than You Think
The undeniable popularity of self-help books, wellness podcasts, and happiness workshops reflects the constant human desire to make life better. But could it be that many of our lives are already better than we recognize?
While we may have a loving family, a good place to live, and a decent job, we often fail to notice those things. It’s not because we are ungrateful or stupid. It’s because of a basic feature of our brain, known as habituation.
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Habituation is the tendency of neurons to fire less and less in response to things that are constant. You enter a roo...
Source: TIME: Health - February 22, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Tali Sharot and Cass R. Sunstein Tags: Uncategorized freelance Source Type: news
Are male and female brains really that different? Surely, there are better questions to ask | Gina Rippon
Arguments about sex differences in the brain have raged for centuries. As intriguing as they are, it ’s time we changed focusThere seems to be an insatiable public appetite for information about sex differences in the human brain, eagerly harnessed by the media in many forms.A paper out this week from a research group at Stanford University made headlines for its innovative contribution to this form: using an AI neural network model to look at brain scans to see if it could “reliably” and “robustly” tell female and male brains apart. In other – more neutral – words, could the algorithm tell whether the brain ...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - February 22, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Gina Rippon Tags: Neuroscience Biology Gender Source Type: news
Take it from a neuroscientist: searching for a ‘male’ and ‘female’ brain is a waste of time | Gina Rippon
Arguments about sex differences in the brain have raged for centuries. As intriguing as they are, surely there are more urgent questionsThere seems to be an insatiable public appetite for information about sex differences in the human brain, eagerly harnessed by the media in many forms.A paper out this week from a research group at Stanford University made headlines for its innovative contribution to this form: using an AI neural network model to look at brain scans to see if it could “reliably” and “robustly” tell female and male brains apart. In other – more neutral – words, could the algorithm tell whether t...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - February 22, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Gina Rippon Tags: Neuroscience Biology Gender Source Type: news
Genomenon to Detail Gene Curation Across the Clinical Exome in Scientific Presentation at 2024 ACMG Annual Clinical Genetics Meeting
The company will also present posters on the global prevalence of PLA2G6- associated neurodegeneration and the application of homologous-annotation to avoid missed diagnoses for CALM genes associated with sudden death in calmodulinopathies ANN ARBOR, Mich., Feb. 21, 2024... (Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals)
Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals - February 21, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: TDS Source Type: news
ADHD may have been an evolutionary advantage, research suggests
Traits associated with the neurodevelopmental disorder could have helped early humans when foraging for foodTraits common to attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), such as distractibility or impulsivity, might have been an evolutionary advantage for our ancestors by improving their tactics when foraging for food, researchers have said.ADHD is a neurodevelopmental disorder with symptoms including impulsiveness, disorganisation and difficulty focusing. While estimates of prevalence have varied, diagnoses have been rising in many countries,including the UK.Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - February 21, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Nicola Davis Science correspondent Tags: Evolution Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder Biology Science UK news Society Source Type: news
Neuroscience Says These 4 Steps Will Make You the Most Interesting Person in Any Conversation
The brain science behind owning the room in a social setting. (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - February 19, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Go with your gut: the science and psychology behind our sense of intuition
From deciding where to have lunch to choosing to walk away from a danger you haven ’t even identified yet, intuition plays a part in all our livesOn a rainy night in London, a young woman walks towards the entrance of a sidestreet, smiling to herself as she recalls the evening spent with the friend she just farewelled at the train station. She ’s about to walk down the poorly-lit shortcut that will take her back to her accommodation, when she stops.Something in her body tells her not to go down that street. She pauses, then turns back towards the busy, well lit but longer route home.Sign up for a weekly email featuring...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - February 17, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Bianca Nogrady Tags: Psychology Science Neuroscience Australia news Life and style Source Type: news
‘As with a poem, each patient is unique’: the cancer surgeon using poetry to help train doctors
Jo ão Luís Barreto Guimarães, a breast cancer specialist and prizewinning poet, is pioneering the teaching of poetry alongside medicine to help trainee doctors empathise with their patientsIn an unremarkable lecture hall on a rainy Monday afternoon, C ândida Pereira is expounding passionately on the intricacies of a poem by the Portuguese politician-poetVasco Gra ça Moura. Her classmates listen closely as the second-year university student enthuses about lyric form, poetic voice and Moura ’s use of “perceptual imagery” and “sensual tone”. Nothing unusual for a standard poetry module, perhaps. Yet once the be...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - February 17, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Oliver Balch Tags: Medical research Health Science Portugal Source Type: news
UT Health San Antonio doctors among first to implant rechargeable deep brain stimulation device
New neurostimulator used by The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio offers significant benefit for those with Parkinson's disease, dystonia, epilepsy and essential tremor conditions. SAN ANTONIO, Feb. 15, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Doctors at The University of Texas... (Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals)
Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals - February 15, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
A Science Sleuth Accuses a Harvard Medical School Neuroscientist of Research Misconduct
Researchers await the outcome of an ongoing investigation into dozens of instances of alleged image problems spanning 29 publications over a period of 23 years. (Source: The Scientist)
Source: The Scientist - February 15, 2024 Category: Science Tags: News News & Opinion Source Type: news
Ehud Mendel named the Nixdorff-German Professor of Neurosurgery
Mendel, a renowned leader in spinal surgery procedures, was recently appointed the Nixdorff-German Professor of Neurosurgery. (Source: Yale Science and Health News)
Source: Yale Science and Health News - February 14, 2024 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
Adam Sillito obituary
Visual neuroscientist who transformed the Institute of Ophthalmology in London into a world-class centre of excellenceAdam Sillito, emeritus professor of visual science at the Institute of Ophthalmology in London, who has died aged 79, described one of his recreations in Who ’s Who as “dreaming of better things”. A lateral thinker who grasped the bigger picture, he carried out research into the mechanics of visual perception that yielded vital knowledge for future treatments. As director of the institute from 1991 until 2006, he transformed it from a backwater on the verge of closure to a world-class centre of excell...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - February 14, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Penny Warren Tags: Medical research Bridget Riley Science Neuroscience Baltimore Birmingham Source Type: news
Science and Technology : Public Perceptions, Awareness, and Information Sources
This report describes confidence in science, understanding of scientific research and new topics such as neurotechnology and artificial intelligence, and engagement with science through media and scientific activities. The majority of U.S. adults — 77 % as of September 2022 — express at least a fair amount of confidence in scientists to act in the public interest. Evidence also suggests perceptions of new science and technology topics may change as experiences grow. U.S. adults with greater understanding of scientific logic tend to express more trust in scientists to act in society ’ s best interests than do those wi...
Source: NSF - Statistics on U.S. Science and Engineering Resources - February 14, 2024 Category: Statistics Source Type: news
Marion Smits speaks on TikTok, open access and all things ECR
This may come as a surprise given her academic credentials and reputation for high-quality peer-reviewed scientific research, but Dr. Marion Smits, PhD, is a big fan of TikTok. She strongly urges every radiologist to make more use of social media. Less surprising perhaps, she's also a massive supporter of open-access publishing and ECR.
Ahead of this month's congress in Vienna, we caught up with Smits, who is chair of the European Society of Radiology (ESR) Research Committee and chief of neuroradiology and chair of the neuroradiology fellowship program at Erasmus MC in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. In a video interview, sh...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - February 13, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Liana Gruenberg Tags: MRI Source Type: news
