Mice learn tasks that may help treat human psychiatric disorders
... and that the numbers are irrelevant so you should ignore them." Mice compose the majority of medical research animals, but since no test existed to monitor them for such skills as set shifting, their usefulness in studying autism, other similar diseases and traumatic brain injuries was limited, Garner sa...Paying attention sets off symphony of cell synchronization
...but subjects were told to pay attention to one and ignore the other. Sometimes the target patterns were fairly dim. At other times they were quite bright. EEG responses from the participants showed more brain activity for brighter stimuli, as expected, but responses also varied depending on attention. The...Like a snail through the intestinal canal
...obots, as they move forward under their own power, ignore this layer of mucus and try, if possible, to suck or grab on to the intestinal wall, which results in the walls being stretched and the patient feeling pain and discomfort. A better method, according to TU Delft researcher Dimitra Dodou, is in fac...Psst! Coffee drinkers: Fruit flies have something to tell you about caffeine
...he fly-equivalent of our taste buds caused them to ignore caffeine's taste and consume the caffeine as if it were not there. "No, you won't see jittery Drosophila flitting past your bananas to slurp your morning java anytime soon," says Craig Montell, Ph.D., a professor of biological chemistry in the Insti...Why doesn't the immune system attack the small intestine?
...mune system response. Why do T cells almost always ignore the small intestine, leaving this vital tissue unh...rmed? "It's obvious that T cells must be able to ignore ?or become 'tolerized' to ?normal intestinal tissue," states Turley, who is also an assistant profes......f you drop a piece of ice on the kitchen floor and ignore it, in a few minutes it will be gone -- melted and...diana, if you drop a piece of ice on the floor and ignore it, the water will just stay there until it's wiped up. In Arizona, she said, if you need a parti...