Brain Images Show Hysteria Not an Imaginary Disorder

In what’s being called a novel finding, researchers using brain scans have uncovered evidence of cerebral dysfunction in women with sensory conversion disorder, better known as// hysteria. The study’s findings open up a new window to understanding hysteria, an unexplained neurological disorder in w...

Obese Get Higher Doses of Radiation for X-Rays

...red the dosage levels, body position options and body mass distribution numbers with the amount of radiation the computer software indicated that each imaginary patient would have had to absorb to get the desired image. Overall, they found that directing an X-ray to the thickest part of a person's fat allow...

Real-Time Control of Wheelchairs with Brain Waves

...ludes increasing the number of commands given and developing more efficient dry electrodes. So far the research has centered on brain waves related to imaginary hand and foot control. However, through further measurement and analysis it is anticipated that this system may be applied to other types of brain wav...

Social class, gender and ethnic group determine adolescents' sexual-affective education

...g on affective sexual education in the formal curriculum to promote, from formal education, sexual and gender equality, as the adolescents' collective imaginary is very far from these democratic and civic values". This work has contributed to "turn affective sexual education/policy into an object of study f...

Michigan Senior Center Recognized with 'Prescription for Better Health Award' from the National Council on Aging and CVS/pharmacy

...e about nutrition and live a healthier lifestyle. In keeping with the "passport" theme, during the 13-week semester-long program, participants take an imaginary trip to historical sites across the United States. Along the way these older adults "earn miles" that can be redeemed for prizes as they attend healt...

Dr. Ajrawat's Air-Pulse Autonomic Meditation Therapy, a Revolutionary, Scientific, Meditation Therapy, Receives Patent Trademark

...ure," Dr. Ajrawat says. Despite the assertion of various methods and theories of relaxation and application of certain posture, focusing on imaginary energy circles (chakras), autosuggestion (mantra) or use of sound, people continue to feel more stressors in life, be they psychological, physical or ...

Cartoon Network and the FDA to Launch Year II Expansion of SPOT THE BLOCK Nutrition Awareness Campaign on Monday, April 7

...n Cartoon Network throughout 2008. The fully animated spots showcase characters from popular original programs like the Emmy-winning Foster's Home for imaginary Friends, Camp Lazlo, Chowder and The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, and were created to promote good nutrition, portion control and a healthy eatin...

Lack of imagination in older adults linked to declining memory

...w Harvard University study reveals that the ability of older adults to form imaginary scenarios is linked to their ability to recall detailed memories. Accord...experienced ones extract various details and put them together to create an imaginary event, a process known as the constructive-episodic-simulation. Harvard...

Parents Face Tough Questions When Santa's Magic Fades

...is how kids at that age exercise their minds." At 3, 4, 5 years of age, especially, fantasy and reality tend to overlap, including figures such as imaginary friends, the Tooth Fairy and Santa Claus. "But kids gradually change, they gradually move to a kind of thinking that is much more concrete and rule...

Revolutionary HD Surgical Footage from North Shore-LIJ Surgeon to be Broadcast for the First Time on ABC's 20/20, National Geographic Channel

...owed for such dramatic and amazing views of the inside of our bodies that watching the footage can feel like you're in a science fiction film or on an imaginary expedition," said Bob Brown, an ABC News correspondent who interviewed Dr. Palter for 20/20. Renowned for his expertise in infertility treatment and ...

Imaginary in Medical Technology

Groundbreaking American Journal of Play from Strong National Museum of Play(R) Premiers July 2008

...day off with recess, to a psychologist's surprising findings on the role of imaginary child companions, to a historian's panoramic journey through the changing p...tific articles in the fields of psychology and affective neuroscience. -- imaginary Companions: Pretending They Are Real but Knowing They Are Not by Marjorie T...

Imaginary in Medical Dictionary

Prognathism

...describe the positional relationship of the mandible and/or maxilla to the skeletal base where either of the jaws protrudes beyond a predetermined imaginary line in the sagittal plane of the... Prog·na·thism n. (Anat.) Projection of the jaws. -- Prog·na·thy , n. ... In human populations where prognath...

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In-vitro fertilization improved with 3-D/4-D-guided embryo transfer and new placement target

...ified a new embryo placement target as the point where the fallopian tubes would intersect if they were extended beyond their natural length. This imaginary intersection, which has been dubbed the Maximal Implantation Potential (MIP) Point, is where embryos typically implant and develop in natural pregnanc...

Evolution of life on Earth may hold key to finding life in outer space

..., the likelihood of finding life in outer space also increases. In "Fantasy Worlds," for each type of extremophile found, animators created a parallel imaginary alien planet on which these microbes are likely to thrive rather than just survive, allowing audiences to explore the types of alien worlds where scie...

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Taming tiny, unruly waves for nano optics

...wo very close surfaces at different temperatures by means of thermal radiation). Because the direction of evanescent waves is seemingly unknowable (an imaginary value) in physics terms, Zhangs group instead decided to follow the direction of the electromagnetic energy flow (also known as a Poynting vector) to ...

Maybe its time to write our own television shows about Wisconsin

...in said, and youll realize the state gets a disproportionate amount of exposure. Picket Fences was set in Rome, Wis., and That 70s Show takes place in imaginary Point Place. About three-dozen movies have either been set in Wisconsin or filmed here, at least in part. Weve got to be in the top five or six sta...

Super advertising slogans, and super costs

...he first order of the day was to dress some of the executives in fictitious characters, like Superman, Spiderman, or Tarzan, and the others in various imaginary titles from a CEO to shipper or an engineer to garbage collector, and so on. Each participant had to make a mock costume from a large tear sheet fr...

CIOs learn boardroom-speak

...like vendor compliance and technology integration, while the board is worried about economic value. The fact that you have seven years of calculus, imaginary numbers they don't care, Hayford said. If you fail in that first attempt, you're not coming back. Byrnes said the one thing boards of directors ha...

Medical simulations identify potential problems before they can pose a real threat

...akes place after the game, when participants have to look at the simulated outcome and determine what they did wrong, what they did right, and how the imaginary circumstances of the game parallel the everyday operations of real-life practices. Part of this is setting up games where the object was not about ...

A high-tech Trek at the Tour de France

...ce by a set of vertical struts, which can present their own variables in the airflow. In a CFD simulation, the virtual bike simply stands alone in the imaginary wind tunnel, held in place by programming fiat. Nevertheless, Rinard said the wind tunnel will continue to be seen as the proving ground of choice ...

Augmented reality brings a new dimension to learning

.... Players will start out with GPS-equipped PDA devices and walk around an outdoor site, such as a schoolyard or a public park. They then interact with imaginary goal points on the map and virtual experts at set locations, identifying a problemone example Squire gave was of a chemical spilland tracking its prog...

Imaginary in Biological Dictionary

Radial symmetry

... Cnidarians are radially symmetrical. This means that their gastrovascular cavity, tentacles, and mouth are aligned such that if you were to draw an imaginary line ... A type of radial symmetry , characteristic of echinoderms, in which body parts are arranged ... Symmetry - Definition of Pentaradial ...