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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “magnetic resonance imaging”

 

• New technique diagnoses brain cancers non-invasively

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 534
  Washington, Jan 29 (IANS) A new technique diagnoses brain tumours non-invasively, eliminating the need for surgery in patients whose tumours are located in areas too dangerous for biopsy.The new magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) technique provides a definitive diagnosis of cancer, based on imaging a protein tied ...
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• Incentives May Not Trump Culture

  
  I2I - Incentive Intelligence — Authority: 100
  Why did your incentive program fail?  Maybe because you focused the program on “sacred values.” Company/corporate culture is a hot discussion these days.  From @zappos (everyone take a drink) and Netflix – every company wants to be the “it” girl of corporate culture.  Culture drives engagement they ...
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• Probing the Neural Networks of Human Conflict

  
  Psych Central News — Authority: 600
  Why do some human groups appear to hate each other? New research by a group of neuroscientists attempts to use brain imaging to determine how the brain responds to empathy and conflict-resolution. Emile Bruneau and Rebecca Saxe of Massachusetts Institute of Technology are studying why empathy — the ability to feel ...
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• St. Jude Medical launch Accent MRI pacemaker

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 534
  Hyderabad, Jan 17 (IANS) St. Jude Medical, Inc., a global medical device company, Tuesday announced the launch of the Accent MRI pacemaker and a Tendril MRI lead.The new pacemaker and lead will allow patients to undergo full-body, high-resolution magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans and accommodate the patients’ ...
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• The Inverse Rule of Medicine: Oversupply Drives Up Prices

  
  The Risk Managers Dilemma — Authority: 89
  Image via Wikipedia I often tell my colleagues that pharmaceutical pricing and medical care in general do not follow the traditional rules of supply side economics . Furthermore, the threat of government regulation keeps prices in check. I am then accused of supporting socialized medicine and subscribing ...
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• Brain re-routes traffic for maximum alertness

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 534
  Washington, Jan 16 (IANS) The brain re-routes traffic within itself to maximise alertness and make the best of our knowledge of situations.“In order to behave efficiently, you want to process relevant sensory information as fast as possible, but relevance is determined by your current situation,” said Joy Geng, ...
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• Imaging Shows How Brain Shifts Connections for Optimal Alertness

  
  Psych Central News — Authority: 600
  A new study uses imaging technology to show how the brain reacts to environmental cues to ensure maximal productivity. Specifically, University of California - Davis researchers studied how the brain reconfigures its connections to minimize distractions and take best advantage of our knowledge of situations. “In ...
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• Iron Intake During Teenage Years Can Impact Brain in Later Life

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 138
  Iron is a popular topic in health news. Doctors prescribe it for medical reasons, and it’s available over the counter as a dietary supplement. And while it’s known that too little iron can result in cognitive problems, it’s also known that too much promotes neurodegenerative diseases. Now, researchers at UCLA ...
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• Patented photoacoustic invention capable of fast, inexpensive, early detection of melanoma

  
  Innovation Toronto — Authority: 127
  It’s extremely important to catch metastatic melanoma at an early stage       Research at MU has yielded a new tool to aid the fight against metastatic melanoma and that tool is now poised for commercial development. Bond Life Sciences Center investigator John Viator has invented a device that can detect ...
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• Brain Imaging Aids in Understanding Delusions

  
  Psych Central News — Authority: 600
  Delusions are strong false beliefs that persist despite evidence to the contrary. While delusions are associated with neurological or mental illness, they are not tied to any particular disease although they often aid in the diagnosis of schizophrenia, manic episodes of bipolar disorder, and psychotic depression. New ...
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• HowStuffWorks "Can an MRI machine also act as a lie detector?"

  
  Paternal Prose — Authority: 146
  In the 1930s, Leonard Keeler — one of the men who developed what we recognize today as the modern polygraph — marketed "The Magic Lie Detec­tor," a tool used during interrogations [source: Larson]. The appeal of the technology, which can give an interrogator insight in the truthfulness of a suspect’s tale, ...
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