There’s no doubt that the biggest buzz at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas didn’t come from the slimmest of televisions, the most fashionable headphones or even a dancing robot. The buzz of CES 2013 was firmly centred on all things health and the Digital Health Summit is where the action was happening. [...]Often in discussing health related findings with non-scientists, I’ve found that scientific literacy in the general population tends to be inadequate for evaluating scientific claims. A surprising number of people are reluctant to study science despite the potential to benefit from the vast amount of useful knowledge being accumulated by scientists. Neil DeGrasse Tyson discussed a similar [...]
Welcome to LabBook, our weekly roundup of University of Chicago Medicine & Biological Sciences research news from around campus and the internet. Each Friday, LabBook will recap the week on the blog, link to news stories about our faculty and studies, and briefly summarize a handful of recent publications by our researchers. PAST TWO WEEKS [...]I was asked to contribute to this weekend’s TEDWeekend on how “Simple Solutions Can Heal the Masses,” by commenting on a great TEDTalk by Max Little, “A Test For Parkinson’s With A Phone Call.” Enjoy, share, and please add your two cents to my article: Retooling Brain Care With Low-Cost, Data-Driven Technologies (The Huffington Post)
On a recent afternoon in a conference room in the Surgery Brain Research Pavilion at the University of Chicago Medicine, first year medical students took turns donning 3D glasses and sitting down at what looked like an arcade game. As they peered into the screen, they used a pen attached to a robotic arm to [...]
Cephalopods—ocean-dwelling mollusks such as the octopus, squid, cuttlefish, and Nautilus—are ancient and complex creatures. They evoke our primal fascination with mysterious creatures of the sea, with weird and wonderful features like prehensile arms that can regenerate when amputated, huge, vertebrate-like eyes, jet-propulsion systems to help swim by squirting water, and special organs to change skin [...]Ten Innovative Ideas in Consumer Electronics (article by Bloomberg Businessweek reporting on CES 2013): “Human monitoring The human body can be monitored, too, allowing us all to perform better and live longer. HeartMath makes heart monitors that are worn daily and report results online directly to doctors… Brain control By monitoring brainwaves and converting them [...]
Genetic history lessons, a rockstar biologist and more in this week's roundup of University of Chicago Medicine & Biological Sciences research news.GreatCall® and Posit Science® Partner to Offer Mobile Brain Exercises on the Jitterbug Cell Phone (press release): “The two games, named “Quick Match” and “Make a Pair,” aim to improve memory and cognitive thinking for GreatCall customers, and come preloaded on all Jitterbug Plus cell phones at no extra cost or monthly service fee. Posit [...]The Brain: On the Frontline of Digital Health in the Workplace (Huffington Post): “…It is estimated that some two billion worldwide, one-third of the global population, suffer from brain-based health and productivity challenges with a related cost burden of more than $2 trillion. The broad scope of this market is emphasized further when consideration is [...]
Welcome to LabBook, our weekly roundup of University of Chicago Medicine & Biological Sciences research news from around campus and the world wide web. Each Friday, LabBook will recap the week on the blog, link to news stories about our faculty and studies, and briefly summarize a handful of recent publications by our researchers. THIS [...]