A segment on ABC’s Good Morning America May 19 caught my attention, so much so that I spent a good chunk of time attempting to find research to back up the claims. The idea itself seems to be obvious – if you have a neurological disorder affecting your brain, you should examine the brain in order to figure out exactly what’s going on to figure out how to best treat the problem, right? I am not a neurologist, so my thinking could be flawed. A comment by the doctor featured in the segment made sense to me, though: diagnosing children with behavioral disorders like ADHD and autism without looking at their brains is like trying to diagnose heart problems without actually looking at the heart.

SOUTHFIELD, Michigan, May 20 /PRNewswire/ --

- Powerful, online system now available for analyzing the European automotive industry

R. L. Polk & Co. today announced the launch of PolkInsight(TM) for the European marketplace, which provides automotive analysts and marketers with instant access to a wide range of European automotive information to help identify sales trends, understand competitors' performance and develop marketing strategies.

CLOSTER, New Jersey, May 20 /PRNewswire/ --

- Ericom extends its leadership in multi-hypervisor support

Ericom Software, a global leader in Application Access and Virtualization solutions and a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, today announced that PowerTerm(R) WebConnect, Ericom's presentation virtualization and desktop virtualization (VDI) solution, now provides centrally managed access to virtual desktops running on Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, a hypervisor-based virtualization platform.

LONDON and PARIS, May 20 /PRNewswire/ -- ePages and the European shopping portal LeGuide.com now cooperate to offer Europe's online merchants even better marketing opportunities. With over 40,000 merchants and more than 130 million products, LeGuide.com is the largest shopping portal in Europe. In the United Kingdom, LeGuide.com lists over 23 million products and 3,500 online merchants.

Starting immediately, ePages is offering a seamless and easy access to the local shopping portals of the French market leader in 11 European countries and in 6 languages, for instance Webmarchand.com in France, Mercamania.es in Spain and Gooster.de in Germany.

NEW YORK, May 20 /PRNewswire/ --

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- Growth still high, but from a very small base

In spite of media hype around social networking, worldwide advertising spending on social networks has not met expectations. eMarketer has revised its worldwide social network ad spending estimates, now projecting that advertisers will spend 1 billion pounds Sterling on social networks worldwide in 2008, rising to only 2.2 billion pounds in 2011. The previous figure for 2011 was 2.4 billion pounds.

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Sensitivity to reward loss is an indicator of animal emotion and welfare, say scientists at Bristol University Veterinary School.

Rats housed in standard conditions show a stronger response to the loss of an expected food reward than those housed in enriched conditions, perhaps indicating a more negative emotional state, according to the new research by published in this week's issue of Royal Society Biology Letters.

The researchers have developed a new approach to the measurement of animal emotional states based on findings from human psychology that emotions affect information processing. In general, people are more sensitive to reward losses than gains, but depressed people are particularly sensitive to losses. The researchers wanted to know whether animals' sensitivity to reward loss might also be related to their emotional state.

Discovered nearly 20 years ago, carbon nanotubes have been described as the wonder material of the 21st Century. Light as plastic and stronger that steel, they are being developed for use in new drugs, energy-efficient batteries and futuristic electronics. A major study published today suggests some forms of carbon nanotubes, the poster children for the “nanotechnology revolution”, could be as harmful as asbestos if inhaled in sufficient quantities.

The study used established methods to see if specific types of nanotubes have the potential to cause mesothelioma — a cancer of the lung lining that can take 30-40 years to appear following exposure. The results show that long, thin multi-walled carbon nanotubes that look like asbestos fibers, behave like asbestos fibers.

Since their discovery, questions have been raised about whether some of these nanoscale materials may cause harm and undermine a nascent market for all types of carbon nanotubes, including multi- and single-walled carbon nanotubes. Leading forecasting firms say sales of all nanotubes could reach $2 billion annually within the next four to seven years, according to an article in the U.S. publication Chemical & Engineering News.

DUBLIN, Ireland, May 20 /PRNewswire/ --

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Irish company, Aqua-Nu Filtration Systems Ltd., is set to unveil its powerful new drinking water micro-filter to the market - promising a permanent solution to the environmental problem of plastic bottle waste. The PURITYCAPSULE(TM) micro-filter offers consumers the opportunity to drink water from virtually any source with complete confidence in its quality - eliminating the need for continually purchasing plastic bottles of water.

SAN JOSE, California, May 20 /PRNewswire/ --

Super Micro Computer, Inc. (Nasdaq: SMCI), a leader in application-optimized, high performance server solutions, today announced that its latest SuperBlade(TM) earned the top honor from CRN Test Center over IBM and Dell in a head-to-head analysis. Supermicro SuperBlade(TM) systems feature 93%* power supply efficiency and deliver unprecedented performance-per-watt when combined with Supermicro thermal and design technologies.

CALGARY, Canada, May 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Oncolytics Biotech Inc. (TSX: ONC, NASDAQ: ONCY) ("Oncolytics") today announced that it has been granted U.S. Patent 7,374,752 entitled "Reovirus for the Treatment of Cellular Proliferative Disorders." The claims cover pharmaceutical compositions which comprise various recombinant reoviruses.

"This patent provides the Company with additional patent protection for reovirus compositions in the United States," said Mary Ann Dillahunty, Vice President of Intellectual Property for Oncolytics.

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