- Faces Are Considered More Attractive When They're Moving
Here's some comforting news for anyone who despairs at how they look in photos - research by psychologists at the Universities of California and Harvard finds that the same people are rated as more attractive in videos than in static images taken...
- Aphasia: Caregiver Account
Available for streaming and as a podcast, from WNYC: "Diane Ackerman's One Hundred Names for Love" Listen 22 April 2011 WNYC Leonard Lopate Show "Diane Ackerman talks about her husband, Paul West’s, stroke and long recovery. He was afflicted with...
- Alzheimer's Disease (ad) In African-american Elderly
From today's Houston Chronicle: Harris County hopes blacks will seek help for Alzheimer's Studies suggest more suffer brain disease than whites, but it is often unreported By LESLIE CASIMIR Oct. 15, 2007, 12:22AM Copyright 2007 Houston Chronicle...
- Business World: Cyberonics And Neurostimulators
The Houston Press, which is an alternative news weekly in Houston, has a feature article this week about Cyberonics and its epilepsy device and its exploration of applications in mood disorders: Exposed Nerve Cyberonics has implanted its pacemaker in...
- Aural Synesthesia?
I was recently in DC for conference of special librarians and I was lucky enough to have a tour of the NPR building. My guide, library director Laura Soto-Barra, asked about my favorite shows on NPR. News junkie that I am, I said that the top- and bottom-of-the-hour...