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Researchers from UQ's Queensland Brain Institute will delve further into the mysteries of how our brains works thanks to more than $7.5 million in funding. The grant, totalling $7,627,200, is part of

A computer model that can predict how people will complete a controlled task and how the knowledge needed to complete that task develops over time is the product of a group of researchers, led by a professor from Penn State's College of Information Sciences and Technology.

Long believed to be a disease of biblical times, leprosy, also known as Hansen's disease, continues to be seen in the United States. "Approximately 150 cases are diagnosed each year with 3,000 people in the U.S. currently being treated for leprosy, says James Krahenbuhl, Ph.D., director of the health Resources Service Administration's National Hansen's Disease Program (NHDP) in Baton Rouge, LA.

In England alone, an estimated seven million people have NHS operations every year(1) and the majority of these are conducted under general anaesthesia. From today, a new medicine is available in the UK that will enable anaesthetists to reverse the muscle relaxation part of the general anaesthesia process quicker than before,(2),(3),(4),(5),(6) potentially meaning advantages for busy operating lists.

Mark Twain, a skeptic of the idea of free will, argues in his essay "What Is Man?" that humans do not command their minds or the opinions they form. "You did not form that [opinion]," a speaker identified as "old man" says in the essay. "Your [mental] machinery did it for you-automatically and instantly, without reflection or the need of it." Twain's views get a boost this week from researchers at Washington University School of medicine in St.

The University of Central Florida will immerse stroke survivors in a virtual world full of flying insects to help expand their range of movement. Researchers in UCF's Media Convergence Lab (MCL) are teaming up with the California-based Virtual Reality Medical Center (VRMC) to create the program and software that can track patients' progress.

TOCHIGI, Japan (MedPage Today) -- Sleeping fewer than seven-and-a-half hours each night could increase the risk of heart disease for older patients, according to researchers here.

BETHESDA, Md. (MedPage Today) -- Only eight of 15 relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis patients treated with interferon achieved and maintained a full response over three years, a small retrospective imaging study found.