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Learning from each other: The Special Cell and domestic violence activist responses in different contexts across the world - Hague G.
Designed to act possibly as an anchor for other contributions, this article responds to the preceding article on the Special Cell for Women and Children in Mumbai, and offers a broad, brush-stroke overview of a selection of criminal justice-focused activis...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - October 28, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Program and Other Evaluations, Effectiveness Studies Source Type: news
With the right rehabilitation, paralyzed rats learn to grip again
(University of Zurich) After a large stroke, motor skills barely improve, even with rehabilitation. An experiment conducted on rats demonstrates that a course of therapy combining the stimulation of nerve fiber growth with drugs and motor training can be successful. The key, however, is the correct sequence: Paralyzed animals only make an almost complete recovery if the training is delayed until after the growth promoting drugs have been administered, as researchers from the University of Zurich, ETH Zurich and the University of Heidelberg reveal.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - June 12, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Scientists plug into a learning brain
(NIH/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke) Scientists explored the brain's capacity to learn and found learning is easier when it only requires nerve cells to rearrange existing patterns of activity than when the nerve cells have to generate new patterns.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - August 27, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Visual scanning training for neglect after stroke with and without a computerized lane tracking dual task - van Kessel ME, Geurts AC, Brouwer WH, Fasotti L.
Neglect patients typically fail to explore the contralesional half-space. During visual scanning training, these patients learn to consciously pay attention to contralesional target stimuli. It has been suggested that combining scanning training with metho...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - September 25, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Distraction, Fatigue, Chronobiology, Vigilance, Workload Source Type: news
How a Small Tribe Turned Tragedy into Opportunity
An Irula couple fishes in the creeks of the Pichavaram Mangrove Forest in Tamil Nadu. Credit: Malini Shankar/IPSBy Malini ShankarPICHAVARAM, India, Nov 13 2014 (IPS)When the Asian tsunami washed over several Indian Ocean Rim countries on Boxing Day 2004, it left a trail of destruction in its wake, including a death toll that touched 230,000.Millions lost their jobs, food security and traditional livelihoods and many have spent the last decade trying to pick up the pieces of their lives. But for a small tribe in southern India, the tsunami didn’t bring devastation; instead, it brought hope.Numbering some 25,000 people, th...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - November 13, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Malini Shankar Tags: Aid Asia-Pacific Biodiversity Civil Society Development & Aid Economy & Trade Editors' Choice Education Environment Featured Food & Agriculture Global Governance Headlines Health Human Rights Indigenous Rights Labour Natu Source Type: news
Scientists map memorable tunes in the rat brain
(NIH/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke) Lights, sound, action: we are constantly learning how to incorporate outside sensations into our reactions in specific situations. In a new study, brain scientists have mapped changes in communication between nerve cells as rats learned to make specific decisions in response to particular sounds. The team then used this map to accurately predict the rats' reactions. These results add to our understanding of how the brain processes sensations and forms memories to inform behavior.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - March 3, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Scripps experts present at 2015 TCT scientific symposium
(Scripps Health) From new methods for preventing stroke, to non-surgical treatment of heart valve defects and learning from complicated cases, Scripps Health cardiology experts will share leading edge techniques for improving heart care during the 27th Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - October 9, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
NIH hosts BRAIN Initiative scientists
(NIH/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke) The NIH will host a meeting of nearly 400 BRAIN Initiative scientists and officials from the NIH, the National Science Foundation, DARPA, IARPA, and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. It will be a unique opportunity to meet the scientists, learn about their promising results and discuss the BRAIN Initiative, a large-scale presidential effort to develop new tools and technologies to understand the healthy and diseased brain.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - November 30, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Eye cells may use math to detect motion
(NIH/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke) In a study of mice, National Institutes of Health scientists showed how one type of neuron in the eye may distinguish moving objects. The study suggests that the NMDA receptor, a protein normally associated with learning and memory, may help neurons in the eye and the brain relay that information.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - March 7, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
10 Global Health Issues to Watch in 2018
January 19, 2018It ’s notallbad news.When we set out to compile our annual list of global health issues to watch this year, it seemed like all bad news. And true, that ’s often what we deal with in global health—the problems that need tackling, the suffering we can help alleviate.But then stories and columns likethis one cheer us up. They remind us that no matter how complicated and frustrating our work may get, fighting back against poverty and inequality works.There are and always will be global health challenges to face. But there ’s boundless hope, too. And a field full of determined health workers and other hu...
Source: IntraHealth International - January 19, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: mnathe Source Type: news
New UCI center to advance the use of artificial intelligence in healthcare
(University of California - Irvine) UCI artificial intelligence center will develop, apply deep learning neural networks to diagnostics, disease prediction and therapy planning. Initial research includes developing a system with 97%+ accuracy in near real-time detection of brain bleeds on NCCT. System to be implemented in UCI's comprehensive stroke program.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - July 27, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Want to learn a new skill? Take some short breaks
(NIH/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke) In a study of healthy volunteers, National Institutes of Health researchers found that our brains may solidify the memories of new skills we just practiced a few seconds earlier by taking a short rest. The results highlight the critically important role rest may play in learning.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - April 12, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
SwitchPoint 2019: Day 1
By Margarite Nathe,
Principal Editor/Writer, IntraHealth InternationalApril 25, 2019It takes tenacity to work in global health and development. These folks have it.I ’m going to go out on a limb and guess that if you work in global health or international development, you might know what frustration feels like.Maybe the project funding cycle gets you down. Maybe you ’ve struggled with a public policy that hurts more people than it helps. It could be that you’ve grappled with shoddy data sets, or corrupt officials, or the fickle winds of politics that so often blow our efforts off course.You need tenacity to do th...
Source: IntraHealth International - April 26, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: mnathe Tags: SwitchPoint Source Type: news
Brain stimulation enhances visual learning speed and efficiency
(University of Rochester) Brain stimulation, when coupled with visual training therapy, has dramatic effects on increasing learning speed and retention in both healthy adults and patients who have experienced vision loss due to stroke or other brain injury.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - May 27, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
