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Brain imaging predicts future reading progress in children with dyslexia - 0 views

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  • Tero Toivanen on 20 Dec 10
     
    Brain scans of adolescents with dyslexia can be used to predict the future improvement of their reading skills with an accuracy rate of up to 90 percent, new research indicates. Advanced analyses of the brain activity images are significantly more accurate in driving predictions than standardized reading tests or any other measures of children's behavior.
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YouTube - Somatosensory Cortex - 0 views

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    Our brains are beautiful!
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Inside the Brain: An Interactive Tour - 2 views

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    An Interactive Tour Inside the Brain.
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The Advantages of Tourette's : The Frontal Cortex - 0 views

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    Tim Howard: "I like the way I am. If I woke up tomorrow without Tourette's, I wouldn't know what to do with myself."
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YouTube - The Writer Who Couldn't Read - 0 views

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    Canadian novelist Howard Engel had a stroke and lost the ability to read, but he could still write, even though, shortly after writing a piece of text, he was unable to read it.
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Sign language study shows multiple brain regions wired for language - 1 views

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  • A new study from the University of Rochester finds that there is no single advanced area of the human brain that gives it language capabilities above and beyond those of any other animal species.
  • Instead, humans rely on several regions of the brain, each designed to accomplish different primitive tasks, in order to make sense of a sentence.
  • "We're using and adapting the machinery we already have in our brains," said study coauthor Aaron Newman. "Obviously we're doing something different [from other animals], because we're able to learn language unlike any other species. But it's not because some little black box evolved specially in our brain that does only language, and nothing else."
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  • The team of brain and cognitive scientists
  • published their findings in the latest edition of the journal Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences.
  • The study found that there are, in fact, distinct regions of the brain that are used to process the two types of sentences: those in which word order determined the relationships between the sentence elements, and those in which inflection was providing the information.
  • In fact, Newman said, in trying to understand different types of grammar, humans draw on regions of the brain that are designed to accomplish primitive tasks that relate to the type of sentence they are trying to interpret. For instance, a word order sentence draws on parts of the frontal cortex that give humans the ability to put information into sequences, while an inflectional sentence draws on parts of the temporal lobe that specialize in dividing information into its constituent parts, the study demonstrated.
  • Tero Toivanen on 30 Apr 10
     
    A new study from the University of Rochester finds that there is no single advanced area of the human brain that gives it language capabilities above and beyond those of any other animal species.
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Social Media's Effect on Learning - Digits - WSJ - 1 views

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    Researchers are figuring out how the interaction Social Media spurs can stimulate brain activity.
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Learning keeps brain healthy: study - 0 views

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    "The findings confirm a critical relationship between learning and brain growth and point to ways we can amplify that relationship through possible future treatments
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Nouns and verbs are learned in different parts of the brain - 0 views

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    "Learning nouns activates the left fusiform gyrus, while learning verbs switches on other regions (the left inferior frontal gyrus and part of the left posterior medial temporal gyrus)", Antoni Rodríguez-Fornells, co-author of the study and an ICREA researcher at the Cognition and Brain Plasticity Unit of the University of Barcelona, tells SINC
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Movement Therapy May Also Improve Language Skills in Stroke Patients - 0 views

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  • All of the patients exhibited improved motor and language abilities, although the six-week therapy only targeted arm movement. Interesting, Page says, patients exhibiting the greatest improvement on the arm tests also showed the most improvement on the language assessment.
  • Tero Toivanen on 25 Feb 10
     
    All of the patients exhibited improved motor and language abilities, although the six-week therapy only targeted arm movement. Interesting, Page says, patients exhibiting the greatest improvement on the arm tests also showed the most improvement on the language assessment.
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Music therapy rewires the brains of people unable to speak - 0 views

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  • Tero Toivanen on 23 Feb 10
     
    Many patients who have not been able to speak, in some cases for many years, and who have tried other speech therapies with no success, have learned to speak after a few dozen sessions of melodic intonation therapy. 
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Hormone could heal brain damage - Science, News - The Independent - 0 views

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    A female sex hormone involved in pregnancy has been found to be so successful in repairing brain damage in both men and women that a large-scale clinical trial is scheduled to begin next month on more than 1,000 victims of severe head injuries.
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  • Tero Toivanen on 03 Feb 10
     
    Results provide direct evidence for functional changes of the adult hippocampus in humans related to musical training.
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Video Games Help Explain How We Learn - 1 views

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    These contradictory findings suggest that pre-existing individual differences in the brain might predict variability in learning rates, the authors wrote.
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Mozart Effect and Premature Babies - Child Psychology Research Blog - 0 views

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  • listening to classical music, and in particular Mozart, improved test performance in college students
  • In fact, a comprehensive meta-analysis (a statistical reviews of previous studies on the topic) concluded that listening to Mozart actually had no effect on intelligence.
  • Soon after, a series of studies showed that Mozart improves performance in some people because of its calming effects.
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  • Other studies also showed that playing Mozart to at risk infants (premature or those with severe medical complications) resulted in better medical outcomes, such as fewer hospitalization days and more rapid weight gain.
  • In the last issue of the journal Pediatrics, there was a very small yet fascinating study on the effects of Mozart on premature babies.
  • The authors found that within 10 minutes of the start of the music the infants experienced an average of a 10-13% reduction in their “Resting Energy Expenditure” (REE).
  • It is possible that exposing the infants to Mozart reduces their REE and this results in a higher ratio of ‘consumed calories’ to ‘calories used’, and thus more rapid weight gain and better medical outcomes.
  • these findings, combined to previous findings showing improved medical outcomes among at-risk infants exposed to music, makes you wonder whether neonatal intensive care units should consider music exposure as standard practice for at risk infants.
  • Tero Toivanen on 27 Jan 10
     
    Mozart Effect: The effect of music on premature babies
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The Neural Advantage of Speaking 2 Languages: Scientific American - 0 views

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  • The ability to speak a second language isn’t the only thing that distinguishes bilingual people from their monolingual counterparts—their brains work differently, too. Research has shown, for instance, that children who know two languages more easily solve problems that involve misleading cues.
  • The findings suggest that after learning a second language, people never look at words the same way again.
  • “The most important implication of the study is that even when a per­son is reading in his or her native language, there is an influence of knowledge of the nondominant second language,” Van Assche notes. “Becoming a bilingual changes one of people’s most automatic skills.”
  • Tero Toivanen on 22 Jan 10
     
    "The most important implication of the study is that even when a per son is reading in his or her native language, there is an influence of knowledge of the nondominant second language," Van Assche notes. "Becoming a bilingual changes one of people's most automatic skills."
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'Noisiest' neurons persist in the adult brain - 0 views

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  • In addition, the observation that the "noisiest" neurons have a survival advantage helps explain the prevalence of epilepsy, in which some neurons become hyperactive and fire in an uncontrollable fashion.
  • during childhood, when many neurons are still being added to the brain, it is likely that neurons that become pathologically hyperactive will be preferentially selected for survival, and these abnormal neurons will be the trigger for epilepsy,
  • Investigating the molecular signals launched by neuronal activity will potentially lead to new drugs that bolster the survival of new neurons. These drugs could be used to increase the efficacy of treatments that depend on grafting stem cell-derived neurons into the adult brain to treat neurological diseases such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's.
  • Tero Toivanen on 18 Jan 10
     
    'Noisiest' neurons persist in the adult brain
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Alzheimer's discovery could lead to long-sought preventive treatment - 1 views

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  • Tero Toivanen on 08 Jan 10
     
    The UCF team found that over time, though there are no outward signs of damage, exposure to moderate amyloid-beta concentrations somehow prevents electrical signals from traveling normally through the cells. Because the effect is seen in otherwise healthy cells, Hickman believes the team may have uncovered a critical process in the progression of Alzheimer's that could occur before a person shows any known signs of brain impairment.
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Low Pessimism Protects Against Stroke: The Health and Social Support (HeSSup) Prospecti... - 2 views

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    It's good for your life and health to be optimist.
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YouTube - Man without a memory - Clive Wearing [BBC - Time: Daytime] - 3 views

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  • Tero Toivanen on 03 Jan 10
     
    Man who don't have memory and is constantly living in the present moment.
  • Tero Toivanen on 04 Jan 10
     
    My mother had a stroke and now she has big problems to communicate. She understands allmost everything, but have great problems to express herself speaking. Aging is not easy thing if you have problems with your health.
  • Tero Toivanen on 05 Jan 10
     
    Thak you for the link : )
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