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New Technique to Study Infants Brain.

...s' brains don't divide into left-brain/right-brain dominance until puberty. A new study finds the brain's left hemisphere plays the leading role in processing most //language functions beginning almost immediately after birth. Researchers are using functional magnetic resonance imaging, or fMRI, to study inf...

fMRI Offers Insight Into An Infants Brain

...s' brains don't divide into left-brain/right-brain dominance until puberty. // A new study finds the brain's left hemisphere plays the leading role in processing most language functions beginning almost immediately after birth. Researchers are using functional magnetic resonance imaging, or fMRI, to study inf...

The Impact of Stress Early In Life

...lt lives. These monkeys also displayed less social dominance in group settings. In contrast, monkeys separated at 1 month old displayed increases in social dominance, social-comfort seeking, and overall sociability. In another study, researchers separated infant monkeys from their mothers during the first wee...

Attitude Of Male Dominance May Affect Life Expectancy In Men

...e heart of their life expectancy. Systematic male dominance - patriarchy - explains half the discrepancy in li...n are used to indicate the extent of societal male dominance over women, otherwise known as patriarchy. The wealth of a country, as indicated by the Gross Domes...

Voice Choice: Woo Men, Strike a Deep Chord

...oices. We asked women to assess attractiveness and dominance of voices across the menstrual cycle and predicted that preference for masculinity in men's voices would be stronger when conception risk is high. Women's preferences for masculine voices change over the menstrual cycle: women prefer masculine voices...

Heart disease: Men Are From Mars, Women From Venus

...y if their husbands are hostile too. The levels of dominance or control in women or their husbands are not rela...ion - wasn't related to atherosclerosis. But their dominance or controlling behavior - or their wives dominance - was related to atherosclerosis in husbands,' sa...

IMF considers Bird Flu to be a Dark Cloud

..."a number of Southeast Asian countries" and in the dominance of state-owned banks in India and China. In the Middle East, Central Asia and Africa, high commodity prices were driving developments, and the IMF warned that a sharp reversal in oil prices "could have adverse effects on the financial systems in so...

Sleeping Position Speaks A Lot About The Couples Relationship

... snuggle up to each other front to back, betrays a dominance of one partner over the other. Couples freshly in love often sleep intertwined in a love knot, the researchers said. A couple who don't touch at all over night and who turn their backs toward each other indicates tension, Goulston and Dunkell sa...

Jealousy In Men Peaks When Partners Are Most Fertile

...ion. This he states is true in humans too, and the dominance increases when the female is most fertile. His s...ientists asked 64 volunteers to rate the perceived dominance of a series of men with neutral expressions. The images they were shown were photographs that had be...

Neurological Recovery Aided by Manliness

...ity. They also found that men who believed in male dominance over women were less happy in their life. But men who had concentrated on their career, success, power and competition had good standing in their society. They also had better recovery after hospitalization. Hence Good opines that when psychothera...

Cricket Science and Medicine Congress in Barbados

...few papers are presented or published. Australia's dominance in the last few world cups can be attributed to an extent, to the maximum utilization of science, medicine and technology to improve their performance. In Australia, like in India, cricket is a very popular sport. In organized cricket programmes a ...

Strange Sex Life of Mole-rats may Provide Clues About Human Infertility

...round her by bullying them. The queen exerts her dominance over the colony by, literally, pushing the other members of the colony around. She shoves them to show whos boss. We believe that the stress induced in the lower-ranking animals by this behaviour affects their fertility. There appears to be a total b...