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Voice-activated device could make DNA handling at the laboratory safer for scientists

Smart voice assistants are a popular way for people to get quick answers or play their favorite music. That same technology could make the laboratory safer for scientists and technicians who handle potentially infectious samples.

1 Feb 2023

Tuning into a person's individual brainwave cycle boosts learning

Scientists have shown for the first time that briefly tuning into a person's individual brainwave cycle before they perform a learning task dramatically boosts the speed at which cognitive skills improve.

1 Feb 2023

DePaul and Rosalind Franklin fund research projects that bring together AI, biomedical discovery and health care

DePaul University and Rosalind Franklin University of Science and Medicine are funding three faculty research projects that bring together artificial intelligence, biomedical discovery and health care.

27 Jan 2023

Unmet needs: Critics cite failures in health care for vulnerable foster children

One night last month, a 9-year-old boy who had autism and talked about killing himself was among about 70 foster care children and youth under state supervision sleeping in hotels across Georgia.

25 Jan 2023

New study evaluates post-COVID symptoms persistent for up to two years in non-hospitalized patients

Researchers followed up for two years with non-hospitalized post-coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients in France and determined when they returned to work. These patients had persistent symptoms, with some utterly incapacitating symptoms lasting as long as 22 months in some cases, that hindered them from working again and leading quality life.

24 Jan 2023

AI-driven voice analysis shows promise as a screening tool for Parkinson’s disease

The diagnosis of Parkinson's disease has shaken many lives. More than 10 million people worldwide are living with it.

24 Jan 2023

Abortion debate ramps up in states as Congress deadlocks

Anti-abortion advocates are pressing for expanded abortion bans and tighter restrictions since the Supreme Court overturned the national right to abortion.

23 Jan 2023

Speech neuroprostheses can decode speech based on brain activity

Researchers from HSE University and the Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry have developed a machine learning model that can predict the word about to be uttered by a subject based on their neural activity recorded with a small set of minimally invasive electrodes.

19 Jan 2023

Differences in brain wiring could explain social communication difficulties in autistic children

Children with autism often struggle to identify emotional cues in other people's voices because of differences in the wiring and function of a key social center in their brains, according to a new study from the Stanford School of Medicine.

19 Jan 2023

Transient ischemic attack needs emergency assessment to help prevent a full-blown stroke

Stroke symptoms that disappear in under an hour, known as a transient ischemic attack (TIA), need emergency assessment to help prevent a full-blown stroke, according to a new American Heart Association scientific statement published today in the Association's journal Stroke.

19 Jan 2023

Numbers don’t lie. Biden kept his promise on improving Obamacare.

In a speech on Nov. 2, 2020, then-presidential candidate Joe Biden promised, “I'll not only restore Obamacare; I'll build on it.”

18 Jan 2023

Semantic networks in the brains of schizophrenia patients found to be different from healthy individuals

In a study published last month in Schizophrenia Bulletin, researchers from Tokyo Medical and Dental University revealed that the semantic networks in the brains of schizophrenia patients are very different from those in healthy humans.

17 Jan 2023

New tool for noninvasive imaging can help illuminate hard-to-access brain structures

Talk about a bright idea: Thanks to chemists at Rice University and Stanford University, lighting up the brain is no longer just a figure of speech.

17 Jan 2023

Study confirms the role of the corpus callosum in language lateralization

A study by the HSE Centre for Language and Brain has confirmed the role of the corpus callosum in language lateralization, ie the distribution of language processing functions between the brain's hemispheres.

13 Jan 2023

Blood-based markers could lead to earlier detection of Alzheimer's disease

Alzheimer's disease begins decades before any symptoms, such as memory loss, start to show. Consequently, early diagnosis increases the chances of slowing the disease down with drugs.

10 Jan 2023

New smart soft contact lenses can monitor intraocular pressure for 24-hour cycles to detect glaucoma

Optometrists, ophthalmologists and their patients will benefit from new, high-tech tools to detect glaucoma at its earliest stages thanks to a startup that will commercialize smart contact lenses developed at Purdue University.

9 Jan 2023

Speech pattern analysis can help diagnose, manage psychiatric disorders

Objective measurement of psychiatric disorders has long proved challenging. Yet, there is ample evidence that analysis of speech patterns can accurately diagnose depression and psychosis, measure their severity, and predict their onset, according to a literature review featured in the January/February issue of the Harvard Review of Psychiatry.

9 Jan 2023

Clinical leaders, health experts and ministers convene in Downing Street for NHS Recovery Forum

Clinical leaders, health experts and ministers will convene in Downing Street for an NHS Recovery Forum today (Saturday 7 January).

6 Jan 2023

Wayne State researcher wins $1.7 million NIH award to understand and tackle cisplatin-induced ototoxicity

A Wayne State University researcher has received a $1.7 million, five-year award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders of the National Institutes of Health for the study, "Targeting nitrative stress for treatment of cisplatin ototoxicity."

5 Jan 2023

'Epigenetic fingerprints' of prenatal alcohol exposure could be biomarkers to detect developmental disorders

Alcohol exposure in early pregnancy can change gene function during the tightly regulated embryonic development, and consequently cause developmental disorders - especially neurodevelopmental disorders.

3 Jan 2023

Speech News and Research

Voice-activated device could make DNA handling at the laboratory safer for scientists

Tuning into a person's individual brainwave cycle boosts learning

DePaul and Rosalind Franklin fund research projects that bring together AI, biomedical discovery and health care

Unmet needs: Critics cite failures in health care for vulnerable foster children

New study evaluates post-COVID symptoms persistent for up to two years in non-hospitalized patients

AI-driven voice analysis shows promise as a screening tool for Parkinson’s disease

Abortion debate ramps up in states as Congress deadlocks

Speech neuroprostheses can decode speech based on brain activity

Differences in brain wiring could explain social communication difficulties in autistic children

Transient ischemic attack needs emergency assessment to help prevent a full-blown stroke

Numbers don’t lie. Biden kept his promise on improving Obamacare.

Semantic networks in the brains of schizophrenia patients found to be different from healthy individuals

New tool for noninvasive imaging can help illuminate hard-to-access brain structures

Study confirms the role of the corpus callosum in language lateralization

Blood-based markers could lead to earlier detection of Alzheimer's disease

New smart soft contact lenses can monitor intraocular pressure for 24-hour cycles to detect glaucoma

Speech pattern analysis can help diagnose, manage psychiatric disorders

Clinical leaders, health experts and ministers convene in Downing Street for NHS Recovery Forum

Wayne State researcher wins $1.7 million NIH award to understand and tackle cisplatin-induced ototoxicity

'Epigenetic fingerprints' of prenatal alcohol exposure could be biomarkers to detect developmental disorders

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