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Brain Changes Could Explain Teen Behavior

...ke wanting to go to movies. "We know that kind of task involves the prefrontal cortex," Blakemore said. "It is as if the pattern of brain activity shifts from the back of the brain to the front of the brain during adolescence to do these kinds of empathy tasks." These findings were presented at the Brit...

All in the name of Fitness

...ur open water qualifying swim before taking on the task the rate has shot up to 40 per cent. "I myself have attempted it but had to give up two miles from the end - but at least I got relatively close." Prof Whyte is also the director of science and research at the English Institute of Sport and he plan...

Consumers way off the mark in measuring calorie content in fast foods

...he study, 40 undergraduate students were given the task of guessing the calorie content in fifteen different sizes of a fast food meal. The finding revealed a great similarity in the result, irrespective of the sex of the participants or how much they weighed. Dr. Madelyn Fernstrom, director of the Uni...

Flood-ravaged Surat Issues Epidemic Warning

...urban health centres in the city were assigned the task of distributing chikungunya medicines. Sixty-two mobile dispensaries have also been allocated for the purpose. The corporation has also set up a special round-the-clock control room, and around 1,000 municipal workers are carrying out a door-to-doo...

Effects Of Autism On Brain Much Wider Than Presumed

...ld probably have trouble with a more complex motor task like drawing or using a pair of scissors. The researchers have concluded that they hope that their findings would lead to better treatment for autism by repairing the faulty circuitry in the bran....

Legislation to Prevent Discrimination against HIV/AIDS Victims

...tes have also supported the idea. In addition a task force, under the chairmanship of a Special Secretary from the Home Ministry, would look into the issue. He said, "We have to take a policy decision on the matter and it is now being deliberated upon." Dr. Ramadoss admitted that HIV/AIDS was a se...

Understanding the Effects of Sleep Deprivation on Decision-Making

...work of areas, all of which work together to get a task done," he said. The researcher found that volunteers' working memory wasn't affected after 36 hours without sleep, not because they were all healthy and had an average age of 24 years, but because other regions of the brain jumped in to help. "Th...

The Dengue Virus Unplugged

... more virus. Flaviviruses are so efficient at this task that they can churn out tens of thousands of copies of their genome--which is composed of ribonucleic acid, or RNA--within hours of infecting a cell. For dengue and other flaviviruses, the first step is to produce viral proteins, including an enzy...

Scientist Study New Treatment Modality for Psychiatric Disorders Using Mice

...s in people.’ Garner and his colleagues designed a task to measure a process called set shifting in which ...n that enable people to shift their focus from one task to another also seem to be present in most other mammals and probably also in birds. ‘Set shifting o...

"Active" Brain Makes Rational Decisions!!

...asis for rational decision-making. The goal of the task was to accumulate as much money as possible, with the incentive of being paid in real money in proportion to the money won during the experiment. Participants were given a starting amount of money (￡50) at the beginning of each trial. They were then ...

HIV/AIDS on Rise in Jammu and Kashmir

...g awareness about the disease has not been an easy task in the state. "Since several languages and dialects are spoken - Kashmiri, Urdu, Dogri, Punjabi, Ladakhi, Pahari and Gujjari, it's even more challenging accomplishing minor tasks like developing video films, songs and posters," he added. Growin...

The Lurking Tsunami: Are We Ready?

...twork of functionaries and performed a commendable task to put the affected back on the road of recovery. It has become increasingly clear that there is no room for complacency.To be forewarned is to be forearmed,and India can soon boast of her own Tsunami warning system, by 2007, that will enable the...

Australian Medical Association Not Satisfied Obesity Initiatives

...g industry and the community. The new ministerial task force also has Education Minister, Julie Bishop, a... the need for taskforce stressed the importance of task force being more task-oriented for them to be more effective. He also hoped that the inclusion of C...

Expert panel confident of making AIIMS fully autonomous

...PTI from Manipal. The committee is beginning its task against the backdrop of a bitter row between Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss and AIIMS Director P Venugopal, whose sacking was recommended by the Institute's Governing Council and stayed by the Delhi High Court. AIIMS was in the news for all the w...

First Cord Blood Bank in North India to be Opened in Gurgaon

...ty at Gurgaon, near the capital, will complete the task in next two years, renowned cardiologist and Cryobanks India advisor Naresh Trehan told reporters Wednesday. "The umbilical cord blood is a rich source of stem cells and the bank will facilitate to store them from any willing family for a certain f...

Developing Countries Undertake Cataloguing of Human Mutations

...ari have started making their own collections, the task of the Human Variome Project is to curate a global collection. It's a "Tower of Babel" problem. For the collection to work, the individual databases have to be able to communicate with each other. The success will also only be as good as the data...

Clement Urged to Plot a National Pharmaceutical Strategy

...accord, the first ministers established a national task force that was charged with developing and implementing a national pharmaceuticals strategy. The task force was told to report on June 30 of this year. They were asked to look at several issues, includi...

Learning the Value of Prevention and Treatment in Oral Clefting

...lowing. The evaluators may not have understood the task of the study. Further, it is possible that too few psychologists and behavioral scientists were among the evaluators. Examples of using the HRQL in the future may include cost-effectiveness analyses of prevention strategies such as vitamin suppleme...

Codex role likely to expand

...ere to be sourced locally//, it would be an uphill task to maintain standards in taste and safety. Codex, deals with food legislation among 173 states in addition to the European community. This is indeed a combined worthy effort by the World Trade Organization and the Food and Agriculture Organization o...

Researchers have Identified the Gene that Spreads Skin Cancer

... or deleted. In such cases, it would be a daunting task to pinpoint the actual gene culprit among a large ...mas. There are hundreds of genes on 6p, making the task of narrowing down to a few candidate culprits nearly impossible. Chin had previously created transge...

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