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Damage To The Frontal Cortex Of The Brain Affects Our Ability To React Quickly To A Stimulus

Researchers of the University of Granada have demonstrated that patients who have damage to the right prefrontal cortex of the brain present a deficit in intentional anticipation (for example, when we put the vehicle in gear before the traffic light turns green). The findings of this study were published in the prestigious journal Brain. Researchers… Seguir Leyendo Damage To The Frontal Cortex Of The Brain Affects Our Ability To React Quickly To A Stimulus

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New System Developed For Early Diagnosis Of Alzheimer’s Disease

Researchers of the University of Granada have developed a new computer program that allows early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease through processed images. This new system has enhanced successful early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease up to 90%, which is an important progress within this area of study. The study was conducted by professor Ignacio Alvarez Illán,… Seguir Leyendo New System Developed For Early Diagnosis Of Alzheimer’s Disease

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Researchers Validate A New Test For Assessing Children’s And Teenagers’ Fitness To Prevent Morbidity

This research was developed by Dr. Enrique Garcia Artero, from the Department of Physiology of the University of Granada, and coordinated by Professor Manuel J. Castillo Garzón. To carry out this project, the researcher used data from the national and European projects AVENA (Food and Assessment of Nutritional Status of Spanish Adolescents) and HELENA (Healthy… Seguir Leyendo Researchers Validate A New Test For Assessing Children’s And Teenagers’ Fitness To Prevent Morbidity

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Researchers Hope To ‘Reprogram’ Stem Cells With Human Heart Tissue

Spanish researchers have employed for the first time adult cells extracted from a human heart to turn stem cells from adipose tissue into cardiac myocytes. In other words, they achieved to “reprogram” adult stem cells, which might improve treatments for heart disease therapeutical. At present, the use of stem cells in treatments for heart disease… Seguir Leyendo Researchers Hope To ‘Reprogram’ Stem Cells With Human Heart Tissue

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Program Allows Gypsy Students To Improve School Performance, Integration

Scholars from the University of Granada, Spain, and the National University of Comahue, Argentina, designed an educational intervention program that achieved the integration of 100% of gypsy students in their Secondary School Centre, in the province of Granada. The program ran for two academic years and was proven to be successful in improving gypsy students’… Seguir Leyendo Program Allows Gypsy Students To Improve School Performance, Integration

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Global Database Needed To Guarantee Identification Of Victims In Mass Disasters

An expert in forensic anthropology argues that the database should include computer records of citizens such as anthropological data, physiognomic characteristics, medical information, radiographic files, dental records and numbers of different identity documents. Tzipi Kahana believes that radiographic techniques, together with information from this database, are a reliable mechanism for identifying bodies after natural disasters… Seguir Leyendo Global Database Needed To Guarantee Identification Of Victims In Mass Disasters

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Researchers From The UGR Recover And Restore 1 Of The 2 Oldest Copies Of The Quran

Researchers From The UGR Recover And Restore 1 Of The 2 Oldest Copies Of The Quran On the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the Fundación Tres Culturas del Mediterráneo in September 30th, 2009, José Antonio Griñán, president of the Junta de Andalucía, presented a facsimile edition of a 13th century Andalusian Qur\’an at the… Seguir Leyendo Researchers From The UGR Recover And Restore 1 Of The 2 Oldest Copies Of The Quran

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Right-Handed And Left-Handed People Do Not See The Same Bright Side Of Things

Right-Handed And Left-Handed People Do Not See The Same Bright Side Of Things Despite the almost universal association of the right with life, right, positive and good things, and the left with death, inadequacy, negative and bad things, recent researches show that left-handed people hold the opposite association. Thus, left-handers become a critical case in… Seguir Leyendo Right-Handed And Left-Handed People Do Not See The Same Bright Side Of Things

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How High Can A Climber Go?

How High Can A Climber Go? The maximum time an athlete is able to continue climbing to exhaustion may be the only determinant of his/her performance. A new European study, led by researchers from the University of Granada, the objective of which is to help trainers and climbers design training programs for this type of… Seguir Leyendo How High Can A Climber Go?