Category: Science

Technology has proven a life easing positive advancement for many individuals and an insurmountable web of confusion  for others.  There are those of us who can and those of us who simply can’t when it comes to the internet and social media. It is clear that the divide is mostly between the generations who were…

Americans are a diverse group of people interacting on a daily basis often times in stressful situations. How different are our cultural stress coping mechanisms and are they working? The American Psychological Association, APA reports that according to UCLA psychologist Matthew Lieberman, Ph.D., the idea that putting problems into words will ease the emotional impact…

Children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) often struggle to recognize emotions from facial expressions (facial affect), hindering their social interactions. By using Humintell’s emotion recognition training tool MiX, researchers out of Rush University Medical Center in Skokie, Illinois tested children ages 8-14 who are affected with autism spectrum disorder over a six week period. Russo,…

In January of this year we shared the story of the first Full Face Transplant recipient, a Texas man, Dallas Weins who was very grateful for the life changing operation. Reuters.com, has reported on another face transplant that has had such success that the recipient Richard Norris is able to brush his own teeth and…