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| Woman aquires new accent after stroke. Rare case of foreign-accent syndrome reported in Canada. |
| A woman in southern Ontario is one of the first cases in Canada of a rare neurological syndrome in which a person starts speaking with a different accent, McMaster University researchers report in the July issue of the Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences. |
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| EYE TEST PEERS INTO HEAT-RELATED MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SYMPTOMS |
| A bodysuit that heats or cools a patient, combined with painless measurements of eye movements, is providing multiple sclerosis researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center with a new tool to study the mysterious link between body temperature and severity of MS symptoms. |
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| ERASING BAD MEMORIES? |
| The day when long-term traumatic memories can be selectively wiped out is one step closer, claim Israeli scientists. |
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| SOME FEARS ARE INHERITED |
| Fear, long thought to be a learned response, may actually be a partly inherited trait programmed into our genetic makeup, a study of twins has found. |
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| EYE MOVEMENT STUDIES TO HELP DIAGNOSE MENTAL ILLNESS |
| Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago are studying subtle abnormalities in eye movements that may one day be used to diagnose psychiatric disease. |
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| JEALOUSY IN MEN, WOMEN NOT SO DIFFERENT |
| Culture plays a big part in men and women's experience of sexual and emotional jealously, and they are not as different as evolutionary psychologists have argued, according to a new study. |
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| STUDY SUGGESTS THAT TOMBOYS MAY BE BORN, NOT MADE. |
| Levels of testosterone during pregnancy appear to influence the gender-role behavior of preschool girls, according to a new study. |
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| ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE MAY ORIGINATE IN THE BRAIN'S WHITE MATTER |
| Changes in the brain's white matter may play a major role in the onset of Alzheimer's disease, whose baffling origin has traditionally been blamed on the gray matter. The new findings could provide a fresh direction for Alzheimer's research in this neglected part of the brain, offering the potential for early diagnosis and enhanced therapies. |
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| BRAIN CAN REORGANIZE AFTER TRAUMATIC INJURY |
| People who have suffered a moderate to severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) can recover some of their memory function by using alternate brain networks, according to a new study in the August 2002 issue of the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry. |
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| STRANGE ENCOUNTERS OF A REFLECTIVE KIND |
| An Australian neuropsychologist is working on the causes of an unusual condition in which people fail to recognise their own reflections in the mirror. |
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| RESEARCHERS IDENTIFY GENE IN RARE FORM OF EPILEPSY. FINDINGS MAY PROVIDE NOVEL INSIGHTS INTO MORE COMMON EPILEPSY. |
| Columbia Health Sciences researchers have identified a gene implicated in a rare form of epilepsy, a finding that could provide insights into the cause of common epilepsy. |
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| MAJOR STRESS DURING PREGNANCY LINKED TO AUTISM |
| Women who have had a major stressful event - death of a spouse, job loss, or a long-distance move - midway through their pregnancy may have a greater chance of having an autistic child than do their unstressed counterparts say researchers at The Ohio State University Medical Center. |
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| TELEVISION CAN ENHANCE CHILDREN'S INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT, STUDY FINDS |
| Television is so commonly criticized as being bad for children that an important fact sometimes gets overlooked: some types of television viewing may actually enhance children's intellectual development, according to a study. |
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| BRAIN TRAUMA MAY INCREASE THE RISK OF ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE |
| New research published in the online journal BMC Neurology suggests that brain injury leads to an increased risk of developing Alzheimer's disease. This is the first study to use autopsy brain material to study the connection between traumatic brain injury and Alzheimer's and confirms similar findings gained from clinical studies. |
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| PAIN WAVES-TOLERANCE LINKED TO BRAIN |
| Pain tolerance linked to brain. Whether it's childbirth or a broken leg, why can some people "grin and bear" a painful experience while others find the agony overwhelming? |
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| KINSEY STUDY FINDS ADVERSE SEXUAL, EMOTIONAL SIDE EFFECTS OF BIRTH CONTROL PILLS RELATED TO DISCONTINUATION |
| The birth control pill can have significant adverse effects on sexuality and mood in some women, increasing the likelihood of early discontinuation, according to a study by the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction at Indiana University. Results of the study will be reported in the July issue of the journal Contraception. |
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| WAR OF WORDS. WHY WOMEN HAVE MORE REASON THAN MEN TO FEAR THE GOSSIP'S TONGUE |
| MOST women may be physically weaker than men, but they have a formidable weapon at their disposal: gossip. Nattering to each other in this way could be why women form such strong social bonds, says anthropologist Nicole Hess from the University of California at Santa Barbara. |
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| PEOPLE WITH UNSTABLE PSYCHOLOGY SUFFERS MOST FROM THE INTERNET USE |
| According to the survey, conducted at Munich University, appr. 4% of all tested people (1,000 men) had serious problems with the health after frequent use of the Internet. |
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