Apple ResearchKit Software Enables New Studies of Autism and Epilepsy
By Peter Bochner Apple ResearchKit, an open source software framework that makes it easy for medical researchers, scientists and developers to create apps that can gather data more frequently and more accurately from iPhone users, is enabling new research studies on autism from Duke University and epilepsy from Johns Hopkins University. Duke University and Duke […]
Anorexics Show Different Brain Activity
By Peter Bochner When choosing foods to eat, anorexia nervosa patients who took part in a recent study showed significantly greater activity in the region of the brain associated with habitual behavior than see in the brains of healthy people. The study, performed by research team assembled from New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University, […]
