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How IVF could be causing genetic errors in embryos

...ome is characterised by severe mental retardation, speech impairment, balance disorder and a happy, excitable demeanour; it occurs in about one in 10,000 to 30,000 of the population. Beckwith Wiedeman syndrome is characterised by overgrowth, with an abnormally large tongue, umbilical hernia, neonatal hypogl...

Nicotine exposure during development leads to hearing problems

...d problems. They may have difficulty understanding speech in a noisy environment, not understand information that is presented verbally, and may not be able to tell the difference between similar sounds. "This study is significant because it suggests to us precisely what aspect of smoking is so harmful in...

'Smart' genetic therapy helps the body to heal itself

...ng disease, which can cause visual loss, seizures, speech problems or deafness due to demyelination invariably leading to death in children and problems of gait and co-ordination in adults." Professor Gert-Jan van Ommen, from the Centre for Human and Clinical Genetics, Leiden University Medical Centre, Th...

Coffee makes us more likely to say 'yes'

...xample, listening to advertisements or a political speech on the radio/TV, reading a film review or in a business meeting to discuss work-related issues." ...

New dyslexia theory blames 'noise'

...led for preventive training for children with weak speech perception in noise in kindergarten or early prima...s lag behind their peers in forming categories for speech sounds. In the conclusion to their study in Psychological Science, the authors speculate that th...

Unraveling where chimp and human brains diverge

...f the brain, such as those that regulate language, speech and other uniquely human abilities. ...

Teenager moves video icons just by imagination

...d. They then asked the boy to do various motor and speech tasks, moving his hands various ways, talking, and imagining. The team could see from the data which parts of the brain and what brain signals correlate to these movements. They then asked the boy to play a simple, two-dimensional Space Invaders game...

Computer scientists unravel 'language of surgery'

Borrowing ideas from speech recognition research, Johns Hopkins computer scien...for this language, we're borrowing techniques from speech recognition technology and applying them to motion recognition and skills assessment." Comp...

Stroke symptoms common among general population

...8 percent suddenly could not express themselves in speech or writing. African Americans and those with lower incomes, less education, poorer health status and higher stroke risk scores were more likely to have had stroke symptoms. "The last finding suggests that at least some of these symptoms may repre...

Sensory feedback during speech: The brain attunes to more than just sound

...n. Cues of this sort that might be relevant during speech include those that inform the brain of the opennes...tigate how such somatosensory cues are used during speech production, the researchers in the new work were able to dissociate the contribution of these cues f...

How does your brain tell time?

...Many complex human behaviors -- from understanding speech to playing catch to performing music -- rely on th... mechanisms that underlie our ability to recognize speech and enjoy music are distributed throughout the brain, and do not resemble the conventional clocks we...

New fMRI technology making brain tumor surgery safer

...erving areas of the brain that are responsible for speech and movement. The Cincinnati specialists are amon...ocesses those images, highlighting the location of speech and movement areas and white matter tracts. He also highlights the tumor location, then imports all ...

Research finds music training 'tunes' human auditory system

...nificantly enhances the brainstem’s sensitivity to speech sounds. This finding has broad implications because it applies to sound encoding skills involved not only in music but also in language. The findings indicate that experience with music at a young age in effect can "fine-tune" the brain's auditor...

Dinosaur hearing, listening to muscle noise, quieter cubicles

... architects and acoustical consultants to maximize speech privacy in open-office spaces while minimizing the...Privacy Index," a quantitative measure of how much speech can be heard in a given environment. The calculator takes into account such variables as partition ...

Stroke study sheds light on left-right brain divide

...e in the left frontal region can affect aspects of speech and language, but this research highlights, for the first time, the additional challenges that people with right frontal-lobe damage might face in everyday life.’ 23 people, each with frontal lobe damage, performed a ‘rule-switching’ task which in...

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