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Phoenix, Arizona, 6-7 September 2006   From the conference website   The Health Sciences, perhaps more than any other discipline, is dependent of images / video and the analysis of these images to be successful. This is true in biomedical research, health education and of course in clinical care. These images are increasingly digital and improving in resolution by orders of magnitude. This simultaneously allows more flexibility with the analysis of the image and much better analysis. The data resources are logically growing exponentially there is a growing need to share and...

In a letter to the Editor published in the current issue of CNS Spectr (2006 Jun; 11, 6), Holmes and coll. describe a novel VR-based paradigm to test spatial memory in patients with mood disorders.   Here is an excerpt from the letter:   The January 2006 CNS Spectrums included an article about virtual reality (VR) technology as a treatment option in psychiatry and Dr. Gorman...

Mapping implied body actions in the human motor system. J Neurosci. 2006 Jul 26;26(30):7942-9 Authors: Urgesi C, Moro V, Candidi M, Aglioti SM The human visual system is highly tuned to...

Via Omni Brain   According to this press release , psychologists at Iowa State have done the first study on violence desensitization from video games. From the press release:...

Via Mind Hacks     A team of three Italian researchers (Emanuele Olivetti, Diego Sona, and Sriharsha Veeramachaneni) won $10000 in a brain-activity interpretation competition. Entrants...