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(St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center) Neuroscientists at Barrow Neurological Institute at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center have discovered a direct link between eye motions and the perception of illusory motion that solves a 200-year-old debate.

(University of California - Los Angeles) Mattel Children's Hospital UCLA announced the launch of the Mattel UCLA NanoPediatrics Program, which will explore the future of personalized medicine for children, including the opportunities and risks involved.

The program is one of the world's first dedicated solely to nanomedicine and pediatric patients.

Hospitalized kids with painful ailments from broken bones to cancer are often dosed with strong, painkilling drugs known as opiates.

The medications block pain, but they can have nasty side effects. Constipation, for instance, is one side effect that can cause discomfort and even extend a child's hospital stay.

(St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center) Researchers at Barrow Neurological Institute at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center recently participated in a pilot study with the Montreal Neurological Institute that suggests a certain type of MRI scanning can detect when a patient is failing brain tumor treatment before symptoms appear.

The results of the study pave the way for a proactive treatment approach.

(St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center) Two neuroscientists at Barrow Neurological Institute at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center are turning magic tricks into science.

Stephen Macknik, Ph.D., director of the laboratory of behavioral neurophysiology, and Susana Martinez-Conde, Ph.D., director of the laboratory of visual neuroscience are working with world-famous magicians to discover the brain's mechanisms underlying attention and awareness.

Could Internet discussion forums, listservs and online news outlets be an informative source of information on disease outbreaks?

A team of researchers from Children's Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School thinks so, and it has launched a real-time, automated data-gathering system called HealthMap to gather, organize and disseminate this online intelligence.

Contrary to prevailing assumptions, children are more vulnerable to the harmful effects of lead exposure at the age of 6 than they are in early childhood, according to a Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center study.

Researchers from Harvard School of Public Health, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and elsewhere have described a possible reason why some studies have been unable to replicate associations between genes and traits -- namely that the strength of a gene/trait association might vary with age and that current study designs typically fail to take that into account.