new research is showing it s not just cute but essential for your little one s speech development. here s abc s linsey davis. hello, mikey. do you know who i am? reporter: just like in the movie look who s talking, we ve all spoken in this high-pitched, highly exaggerated language known as baby talk or parentese. oh, yeah, she s gone. reporter: a new study shows our babies may be benefitting from all that babbling. according to researchers at the university of washington in seattle, dolling out the da, da, das may improve speech development. even if they can t talk back yet. for the first time it is evidence the brain is working on it well before they have the true capability. i don t think it is ever too early to talk to the baby. reporter: using a noninvasive brain scanner, the study monitors 7 and 11 to 12-month-old babies listening to a series of syllables such as da and ta.
the medical field. a team of u.s. scientists at the university of colorado say they are able to see pain on brain scans of patients and for the very first time they can measure its intensity. they can tell whether med inwas relieving it or not. they use ad brain scanner called functional magnetic resonance imaging. they use it to take pictures of people s responses to pain. here is one of the scientists explaining how all of this works. presentation in color of the pain signature map. this is a map of the areas in which increases here in yellow and decreases in blue are predictive how much pain a person is feeling. rick: a lot of people suffer from chronic pain. this work is in the early stages but it has huge potential. some day it could help doctors determine when pain is hurting a baby, people with dementia, or someone who is paralyzed and unable to talk. really, honestly, i kept
where for extra money the doctor will come to your room if you are unable, if you are that hung over to make it downstairs to the actual bus. some worry this encourages binge drinking. i think it s very smart. a whole i.v. bus thing as opposed to the advil, coffee, greasy food, gatorade remedy most of us use. anyway if you are in vegas, hangover heaven. check it out. news you can use this morning for all our alcoholic friends in vegas. let s talk about this new invention from a team of scientists called the ibrain. ibrain? ibrain. the world s first portable brain scanner. basically, their goal is to be able to read your brain. and so-called mind reading. it has potential medical applications. it could help doctors prescribe the correct levels of medication based on brain responses. this could really further research. kind of impressive. technology is a beautiful thing. it s just scary.
gambling, marijuana, or vodka. if we put you in a brain scanner and have you eat a piece of delicious food when you re hungry, you see this part of your brain light up. if you have an orgasm on the brain scanner, it would light up. same part of the brain. same part of the brain. and amazingly if we image you while you re giving to to charity or while you re learning something or while you re having runner s high, all of those things, both the virtues and the or while playing black jack. while you re playing black jack, interestingly, not when you re winning, but when you re waiting to see the flop of the car and see how you did, you re hard wired to catch a buzz from uncertainty. it kicks in the same part of the brain. it all does. the medial for brain pleasure circuit where it uses dopamine comes together. how then do we some of the things you described them as virtues tend to result in a healthier more balanced life.