Kochi: Kerala may be facing a unique kind of brain drain - one of the educated, feminine ilk. As per the finding of the recently-concluded Kerala Migration Survey 2011 by the Centre for Development Studies, for every 100 women in the state, a significantly high 33 relocate to other cities. Out of those who choose to make a living outside Kerala, 51 women per 100 are in the 20-24 age...
12:52 PM, May 27, 2012
London: Scientists who scanned the brains of men convicted of murder, rape and violent assaults have found the strongest evidence yet that psychopaths have structural abnormalities in their brains. The researchers, based at King's College London's Institute of Psychiatry, said the differences in psychopaths' brains mark them out even from other violent criminals with anti-social personality disorders (ASPD), and from healthy non-offenders. Nigel Blackwood, who led the study, said the...
02:39 AM, May 08, 2012
VISAKHAPATNAM/HYDERABAD: The war of words between chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy and health minister DL Ravindra Reddy refuses to die down even as Delhi keeps advising them to bury the hatchet and work as a team to lead the party to victory in the ensuing byelections.He (Ravindra Reddy) does not have any work and so do you (media). You had better ask Ravindra Reddy why he has said so...
11:39 AM, May 07, 2012
London: Two Britons seem to be ageing in reverse after contracting a bizarre condition which is rapidly making them behave like kids. The two brothers - Matthew, 39, and Michael Clark, 42 - contracted terminal leukodystrophy in 2011. It usually only affects newborns and despite having jobs, both now behave much like toddlers, The Sun reported. Michael, an ex-Royal Air Force regiment member, is now thought to have a mental...
12:09 PM, May 02, 2012
Washington: Researchers are tapping brainpower of babies, toddlers and pre-schooler's to nudge artificial intelligence (AI) into becoming smarter like humans. Computational models based on baby brainpower could give enable AI to overcome limitations such as handling nuances and uncertainty, said researchers. "Children are the greatest learning machines in the universe. Imagine if computers could learn as much and as quickly as they do," said study co-author Alison Gopnik developmental psychologist...
06:57 PM, Mar 25, 2012
How is the brain wired? How does it code and decode information? What causes developmental disorders like autism and diseases like Alzheimers? These are the questions that have occupied neuroscientist Mriganka Sur over the past 30 years. By studying the connections in the brain"and by making connections in the lab through an interdisciplinary approach"he has transformed not only his own work, but neuroscience as well. It was in the late...
11:12 AM, Feb 25, 2012
New Delhi: Two-year-old Falak on Friday showed some signs of improvement with doctors saying the infection in her brain has started subsiding. Doctors are waiting for the infection to come down further to conduct another life saving surgery on her. "Finally the infection in her brain is receding. The sample culture of the brain on Friday showed no infection. If similar results come forth in the next couple of days...
08:31 PM, Feb 17, 2012
Tel Aviv: Glia cells, derived from the Greek word for glue, hold the brain's neurons (cells) together and protect the cells that determine our thoughts and behaviours. Researchers say that glia cells, which had long puzzled scientists, are central to the brain's adaptability, learning and information storage. Actually, glia cells do much more than hold the brain together, says doctoral student Maurizio De Pitt of Tel Aviv University (TAU) Schools...
05:55 PM, Jan 02, 2012
Making healthy lifestyle changes now can help stave off the faulty thinking and failing memory often associated with old age. ...
09:30 AM, Nov 19, 2011
London: Have had an out-of-body experience? It's nothing, just your brain playing tricks on you, according to a new study. Researchers from the universities of Edinburgh and Cambridge claim that common spooky scenarios, such as floating above a hospital bed or walking towards the light at the end of a tunnel, can be explained by human brain trying to make sense of the process of death. For their study, the...
05:23 PM, Oct 31, 2011
Pankaj Udas featured with Jagjit Singh in two albums, 'Together' and 'Forever'. ...
10:25 PM, Oct 10, 2011
Noted ghazal singer Jagjit Singh died on Monday. Singh was admitted in Mumbai's Lilavati hospital after he suffered brain hemorrhage last month. ...
10:45 AM, Oct 10, 2011
Mumbai: Ghazal maestro Jagjit Singh, who underwent a brain hemorrhage surgery, is still in the Intensive Care Unit, but stable. Singh, 70, was admitted to the Lilavati hospital in suburban Bandra on September 18 after he suffered a brain hemorrhage. "He (Singh) is still in the ICU and continues to be on the life support system and ventilator. He would be in ICU till his health improves. He seems to...
07:15 PM, Oct 01, 2011
Mumbai: Renowned ghazal singer Jagjit Singh was admitted to a hospital in Mumbai on Friday after he suffered a brain hemorrhage and is in a critical state, doctors attending to him said. Doctors at the Lilavati Hospital in suburban Bandra performed a life-saving surgery on him, hospital sources said. Singh (70) is under observation and is stated to be in critical condition, they said. He was to perform at a...
08:49 PM, Sep 23, 2011
How happy is the blameless vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd... From Alexander Pope's Eloisa to Abelard In screenwriter Charlie Kaufman's 2004 romantic fantasy whose title was inspired by the above poem, two lovers choose to erase their memories to free themselves of one another. They undergo targeted memory erasure by a fictitious company,...
10:54 AM, Sep 21, 2011
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