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Internet Users Are Not Isolated

r s. posted an article on - Nov 5, 2009, 11:30 am
According a new survey by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, Americans are not as isolated as has been previously reported in a earlier study. Use of mobile phones and the Internet is associa...
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Linking Mind and Machine

r s. posted an article on - Nov 5, 2009, 9:05 am
Researchers at Tel Aviv University (TAU), Department of Engineering, working with a team of European Union scientists, have developed a new technology - a way to successfully wire a state-of-the-art a...
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Whole Brain Catalog

r s. posted an article on - Oct 28, 2009, 3:40 pm
Researchers from the University of California, San Diego, have released the Whole Brain Catalog. At its core, it is meant to serve as a repository for data gathered about the mouse brain. According to...
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One-fifth of Americans Use Twitter

r s. posted an article on - Oct 22, 2009, 3:23 pm
According to the latest report from the Pew Internet and American Life Project, approximately 19% of internet users now say they use Twitter or another service either to share updates about themselves...
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Predictive Values of Psychiatric Symptoms for Internet Addiction in Adolescents

r s. posted an article on - Oct 6, 2009, 9:32 am
An article in the current Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine describes researchers from Taiwan's Kaohsiung Medical University who examined the relationship between psychiatric symptoms...
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Something Fishy With The Technology

r s. posted an article on - Sep 21, 2009, 9:46 am
While it may sound like one of the wackiest research studies done in recent years, neuroscientist Craig Bennett, from the University of California at Santa Barbara and colleagues in an effort to evalu...
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Reverse Engineering The Brain

r s. posted an article on - Sep 10, 2009, 8:59 am
A common technique that hackers use to break into a computer system is to reverse engineer the software to decipher its vulnerabilities. A similar process has been underway to unlock the "software" of...
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Edutainment: Science Meets Hollywood

r s. posted an article on - Sep 8, 2009, 8:35 am
The place where science meets entertainment has become a real program of the National Academy of Sciences. An interesting article in TheScientist.com describes how the marriage of Hollywood and academ...
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Internet Can Complicate Doctor-Patient Relationships

r s. posted an article on - Sep 2, 2009, 8:35 am
A survey conducted by Atenci
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Artificial Intelligence to Avoid Forgetting Things

r s. posted an article on - Aug 27, 2009, 12:40 pm
Using a combination of RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) labels and AI (artificial intelligence) programming, researchers from the University of Granada have devised a system that notifies the eld...
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Twitter and Healthcare

r s. posted an article on - Aug 25, 2009, 9:13 am
How potentially useful is Twitter for medical applications? According to the Medical Connectivity section of the latest issue of Telemedicine and e-Health, Twitter is emerging as a potentially valuabl...
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Therapist-delivered Internet Psychotherapy For Depression

r s. posted an article on - Aug 24, 2009, 1:33 pm
According to a study in this month's Lancet, CBT seems to be effective for depression in primary care when delivered online in real time by a therapist, with benefits maintained over 8 months. A r...
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Study Redefines the Age of Video Gamers

r s. posted an article on - Aug 19, 2009, 10:30 am
Although it is generally believed that playing video games is primarily the past-time of adolescents. According to a new U.S. survey, the "real" gamers are 35-year-old adults, many of whom are overwei...
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New Journal: Music and Medicine

r s. posted an article on - Aug 10, 2009, 8:30 am
Sage Publications recently announced a new official Journal of the International Association for Music and Medicine. A peer reviewed publication with a goal of bringing together information that is cu...
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The Neuro Revolution: How Brain Science Is Changing Our World

r s. posted an article on - Aug 8, 2009, 7:45 am
In looking at our technological revolutions, we have progressed through an agricultural revolution, an industrial revolution, and an information revolution. What follows is a Neuro Revolution which ac...
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Want responsible robotics? Start with responsible humans

r s. posted an article on - Jul 30, 2009, 9:21 am
The way humans think about artificial intelligence, and robotics was inspired by Issac Asimov who penned the "Three Laws of Responsible Robotics." In the current issue of journal IEEE Intelligent Syst...
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Neurosecurity

r s. posted an article on - Jul 10, 2009, 10:12 am
Hacking into the brain? As brain-to-computer interfaces become more commonplace, scientists are beginning to worry that the risks of 'brain hacking' should be taken seriously. While great stri...
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Internet-Based Intervention for Insomnia

r s. posted an article on - Jul 8, 2009, 11:19 am
Another study of online CBT for insomnia published in this month's Archives of General Psychiatry shows promise. Researchers from the University of Virginia Health System conducted a study of an I...
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Internet Filtering Can Hinder A Psychiatric Assessment

r s. posted an article on - Jul 1, 2009, 11:03 am
An interesting letter to the editor in the May-June Psychosomatics describes a case where a hospital
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