If someone suddenly collapsed and appeared to be having a heart attack, you wouldn’t just walk on by, right? You’d at least call 911. You’d likely stay with the person while the ambulance was coming. And if you were trained, you might even start CPR. Chances are that human decency would motivate you to do something.
The little, round robot is on display at the global consumer electronics and technology tradeshow CES 2016, in Las Vegas. According to Leka’s makers, the interactive robot can help to stimulate children with developmental disorders such as autism spectrum disorder and Down’s syndrome, or multiple disabilities.
About 1,000 people die each year in North Carolina from prescription drug overdoses, but addiction experts say less than 10 percent of the people who need help get it.
The movie “Concussion” opened on Christmas Day. I haven’t seen it yet, but I will, because I’m immensely fascinated by the brain. One thing is certain — I don’t need to see the movie to know it will be a divisive film.
The brains of children who suffer clinical depression as preschoolers develop abnormally, compared with the brains of preschoolers unaffected by the disorder, according to new research at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
For Justin Six, the nightmares started after Kosovo.
“We were doing a maneuver and I was about to shoot an 8-year-old. That and working the mine fields,” said Six, a soldier living in Springdale, Arkansas, with post-traumatic stress disorder.
I started writing about autism more than 10 years ago.
The successes and tragedies faced by Mariel Hemingway’s family have played out in the public eye, for better or worse.
Soldiers deployed to Afghanistan had a spike in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms in the months immediately after their return, but also five years later, according to a Dutch study.
I woke up Sunday morning with a throbbing headache. I’d spent the previous night heavily sampling a selection of rare whiskeys with some friends.