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Study uses music to explore the autistic brain's emotion processing

In an innovative study led by Istvan Molnar-Szakacs, a researcher at the UCLA Tennenbaum Center for the Biology of Creativity, music will be used as a tool to explore the ability of children with autism spectrum disorders to identify emotions in musical excerpts and facial expressions.

Global warming will negatively impact tropical species

Global warming is likely to reduce the health of tropical species, scientists from UCLA and the University of Washington report in a study published May 6 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. At the same time, a little bit of warming may actually move certain organisms, particularly insects, in the high latitudes closer to their optimal temperature, the researchers say.

3 UCLA professors elected to National Academy of Sciences

Fields Medal–winning mathematician Terence Tao is one of three UCLA professors elected Tuesday to the National Academy of Sciences for their excellence in original scientific research.

Stem cell researchers create heart, blood cells from skin cells

Stem cell researchers at UCLA have grown functioning cardiac cells using mouse skin cells that had been reprogrammed into cells with the same unlimited properties as embryonic stem cells. The finding is the first to show that induced pluripotent stem cells, or iPS cells — which don't involve the use of embryos or eggs — can be differentiated into the three types of cardiovascular cells needed to repair the heart and blood vessels.

What puts heart patients in the hospital? Study IDs common factors

Nearly two out of three patients who end up in the hospital for heart failure suffer from at least one "precipitating factor," say researchers who examined data on some 49,000 heart failure patients collected during their...

Judge expands order to block harassment of researchers

UCLA won a preliminary injunction against extremists involved in a campaign of harassment directed at faculty and administrators who conduct or oversee research involving laboratory animals. The injunction extends and expands a temporary restraining order granted in February.

Brain reacts to fairness as it does to money and chocolate

The human brain responds to being treated fairly the same way it responds to winning money and eating chocolate, UCLA scientists report. Being treated fairly turns on the brain's reward circuitry.

Researcher, colleagues devise new method for protecting private data

Companies and organizations that keep sensitive personal information on millions of Americans have become attractive targets for hackers in recent years, resulting in billions of dollars in losses for U.S. businesses and misery for countless consumers. But now Amit Sahai, an associate professor of computer science at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, and his colleagues have devised a new data-protection method they hope will put Internet criminals out of business.

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