SUDOKU TRIGGERS SEIZURES IN MAN
WASHINGTON: Sudoku puzzles can give the brain a hard time, but in the very rare case of a 25-year-old German man, solving the numerical grid puzzles triggered seizures in his left arm. The young man did not always react this way to Sudoku, according to a report of his case published in the journal JAMA Neurology. His problems began after he was trapped in an avalanche during a ski trip. The young man had been skiing with a friend in November 2008 when an avalanche occurred. The avalanche buried the man in the snow and knocked him unconscious. But his friend who was a paramedic rescued him and started cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) immediately, said Dr Berend Feddersen, the lead author of the report. IANS certain scents as threatening. These are the first results to show that a scent emanating from a specific chemical compound called putrescine can be processed as a threat signal. “So far, nearly all the evidence for threat chemosignals has come from those that are transmitted by body sweat,” said Dr Arnaud Wisman from University of Kent’s school of psychology. PTI VIENNA: Former Miss Austria Ena Kadic on Tuesday died from injuries sustained during a mountain fall while jogging in her home state of Tyrol, police said.
The 26-year-old had been in a critical condition after plunging off the side of the Bergisel mountain near the city of Innsbruck on Friday.
Two students discovered the severely injured woman near the Drachenfelsen (Dragon rock) panorama platform overlooking the steep ravine of the Sill river.
Shortly after hitting the ground, Kadic managed to call her brother and inform him of the accident before losing consciousness, police said.
She was rescued by a helicopter and taken to a hospital in Innsbruck, where she succumbed to her injuries on Tuesday morning.
The exact circumstances surrounding the accident are unclear, but police said the 2013 beauty competition winner was an avid runner who knew the area well. AFP patients, there are currently two options to keep these waves in check—pacemakers or drugs. However, these methods are relatively crude and they can stop or start waves but cannot provide fine control over the wave speed and direction. So, the research team set out to find ways to steer the excitation waves, borrowing tools from the developing field of optogenetics. IANS