Music and Medicine: Applications of Electronic Music Technologies in Addressing Psychic Pain

Wendy Magee PhD Using electronic music technologies in music therapy has been as... Using electronic music technologies in music therapy has been associated traditionally with people who cannot make...

Health > Health Care

Keywords: Music Therapy, music technology, psychic pain

Posted by: Wendy L Magee

Posted on: 06 Oct 2014

Western University researchers explain the highs and lows of marijuana use

Researchers at Western University’s Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry have explained why marijuana in small doses can cause paranoia, and higher doses that mimic long-term exposure can result...

Science > Neuroscience > Behavioral Neuroscience Archive

Keywords: Prefrontal Cortex, Fear conditioning, Cannabinoids, Ventral Tegmental Area, Dopamine, Schizophrenia

Posted by: Michael Loureiro

Posted on: 30 Sep 2014

Modeling Mucosal Immunity — Summer School & Symposium

The Nutritional Immunology and Molecular Medicine Laboratory is proud to be hosting the 2014 Modeling Mucosal Immunity (MMI) Summer School Program and Symposium.

Health > Immunology > Bacterial Infections

Keywords: computational modeling, computational immunology

Posted by: Josep Bassaganya-Riera

Posted on: 17 Sep 2014

NaCl crystal growth in gelatin

A drop of aqueous gelatin solution with a little NaCl salt is allowed to dry. Large crystals of salt form,, followed by multifractal dendrites in between.

Science > Chemistry > Chemical Physics and Physical Chemistry

Keywords: Crystallization, complex fluids, dendritic growth, multi-fractal

Posted by: Sujata Tarafdar

Posted on: 14 Sep 2014

Participatory Research to foster Innovation in Agriculture - A capacity building event (Aug 2014)

Participatory agricultural research has emerged as an internationally acknowledged method to integrate farmers experience and skills into the innovation proc...

Science > Environmental Science > Agroecology

Keywords: Participatory Research

Posted by: Gurbir S. Bhullar

Posted on: 13 Sep 2014

Learning and Memory, Autoshaping test

autoshaping training & testing

Science > Neuroscience > Neural Circuits

Keywords: Autoshaping

Posted by: Alfredo Meneses

Posted on: 07 Sep 2014

Danko Nikolic speaks on ideasthesia

A talk given at the SoundThinking conference, Frankfurt, 2013.

Science > Psychology > Consciousness Research

Keywords: ideasthesia, synesthesia

Posted by: Danko Nikolic

Posted on: 03 Sep 2014

Computational Imaging - Peyman Milanfar at Technion Computer Engineering conference

Computational Imaging: Never Think You've Seen the Last of Anything Lecture by Prof. Peyman Milanfar of University of California Santa Cruz at the TCE confer...

Science

Keywords: computational photography, Image Enhancement, image processing, Image Processing, Computer-Assisted

Posted by: Peyman Milanfar

Posted on: 02 Sep 2014

Single Doppler pattern with frontal discontinuity

Made in Matlab and based on the Wood and Brown (1986) paper. I disabled the wind direction profile.

Science > Earth Science > Atmospheric Science

Keywords: doppler radar

Posted by: Raul Valenzuela

Posted on: 24 Aug 2014

Adolfo M. García - Neurocognitive determinants of performance variability among world-language users

This video features a lecture on the bilingual brain given by Dr. Adolfo M. García at the University of Science and Technology (Beijing, China), during the Journal of World Languages Launch Symposium.

Science > Neuroscience

Keywords: neurolinguistics, bilingualism, world languages

Posted by: Adolfo M. García

Posted on: 23 Aug 2014

Neurolinguistics according to Lamb: An interview by way of introduction

This video contains an interview granted by American neurolinguist Sydney Lamb to Dr. Adolfo M. García. It is intended to introduce the basics of neurolinguistics to lay audiences. The interview is...

Science > Neuroscience

Keywords: neurolinguistics, Relational Network Theory, lamb, Linguistic models

Posted by: Adolfo M. García

Posted on: 22 Aug 2014

Bohr and Moseley in Manchester by Neil Todd

A lecture on the lives of physicists Niels Bohr and Henry Moseley in Manchester around 1912. Part 1 of three lectures to commemorate the centenary of the quantum atom. The lectures were given at a...

Humanities and Social Sciences > History and Anthropology > History of Science and Technology

Keywords: Niels Bohr, HGJ Moseley

Posted by: Neil Philip Todd

Posted on: 09 Aug 2014

Cell Press Neuron Video Abstract - Dr. Mirko Santello, Dr. Paola Bezzi and Prof. Andrea Volterra

This video shows how glial cells are controlling the signal strength of neurons by the release of glutamate but only under the presence of TNF alpha. The crucial role of TNF alpha is shown with...

Science > Neuroscience > Cellular Neuroscience Archive

Keywords: astrocyte, TNFalpha, Synaptic Transmission

Posted by: Mirko Santello

Posted on: 09 Aug 2014

Mother's voice for premature babies

Science > Psychology > Developmental Psychology

Posted by: Amir Lahav

Posted on: 07 Aug 2014

Research for Lunch - D'méisproochegt Gehir/ The multilingual brain

Research for Lunch: 31/01/2014 The multilingual brain. Is a multilingual education beneficial for children? What are the optimal conditions under which a child can become perfectly multilingual?...

Science > Psychology > Cognition

Keywords: Multilingualism, cognitive control

Posted by: Pascale Engel de Abreu

Posted on: 04 Aug 2014

Molecular modeling of azole inside P450 enzyme

The system is composed of an azole antifungal, and cytochrom p450 enzyme. Iron atom is shown as pink ball, the ligand is colored, and surrounding residues from the receptor are shown in grey. The...

Science > Bioengineering and Biotechnology > Computational Genomics

Keywords: antifungals, Azoles, P450, enzyme, Ligand, ligands, YASARA, Molecular modeling, force field

Posted by: Yasser Gaber

Posted on: 04 Aug 2014

The Medical Doctor (MD) and the Sale representative

The Medical Doctor and the Sale Representative discuss drug X. Side effects and benefits in terms (or not as is with the sale rep.) of the number needed to treat or NNT.

Science > Applied Mathematics and Statistics

Posted by: Einar Baldvin Thorsteinsson

Posted on: 03 Aug 2014

Independence assumption: Guilty or not guilty

Two students talking about the importance of knowing about the independence assumption. Sally Clark.

Science > Applied Mathematics and Statistics

Posted by: Einar Baldvin Thorsteinsson

Posted on: 03 Aug 2014

The cult of significance testing (the p value)

Published on 2 Nov 2012 The detrimental effects of significance testing on scientific thought and practice continue unabated. The myths surrounding the discontinuation of significance testing are...

Science > Applied Mathematics and Statistics

Posted by: Einar Baldvin Thorsteinsson

Posted on: 03 Aug 2014

Publish or Perish (the p value)

The chances of publishing a manuscript. Researcher and editor having a civil discussion. The p value might get a mention or two - or well heaps.

Science > Applied Mathematics and Statistics

Posted by: Einar Baldvin Thorsteinsson

Posted on: 03 Aug 2014

An in vivo Assay for Monitoring Behavioral Output in the Stomatogastric Nervous System

An in vivo Assay for Simultaneous Monitoring of Neuronal Activity and Behavioral Output in the Stomatogastric Nervous System of Decapod Crustaceans SHORT ABSTRACT We present an experimental method...

Science > Neuroscience > Neural Circuits

Keywords: stomatogastric ganglion, Central pattern generators (CPG), sensorimotor integration, cancer borealis, crab, crustacean

Posted by: Wolfgang Stein

Posted on: 31 Jul 2014

Who you calling bird brained?

This short doco was made Mariya Semenova from the Science Communication Department at the University of Otago. For any of the papers mentioned, feel free to ...

Science > Psychology > Comparative Psychology

Posted by: Damian Scarf

Posted on: 28 Jul 2014

Penn State University, The Genome Sciences Institute at the Huck - Pushing the Frontier

Understanding the function and evolution of genomes and the implications on how organisms live in their environments and thrive or get sick, requires a combi...

Science > Genetics > Computational Genomics

Posted by: Marylyn D Ritchie

Posted on: 25 Jul 2014

What makes us musical animals

What makes us musical animals Lecture at TEDxAmsterdam 2011

Science > Neuroscience > Social and Evolutionary Neuroscience

Keywords: music cognition, musicality, Music Perception.

Posted by: Henkjan Honing

Posted on: 23 Jul 2014

John L Sievenpiper MD - The Role of Fructose, Sucrose, and High-fructose Corn Syrup in Diabetes

The Role of Fructose, Sucrose, and High-fructose Corn Syrup in Diabetes: Is there cause for concern?

Health > Nutrition > Nutrition Methodology

Posted by: John L Sievenpiper

Posted on: 17 Jul 2014