URI oceanographers discover how planetary waves affect phytoplankton production
...ophyll concentration. The scientists theorize that disturbances in the ocean caused by these waves are bringing nutrients to surface waters on a global scale and affecting the production of phytoplankton. Advances in satellite technology have allowed scientists to observe and study such phenomena as they can...Tips from the journals of the American Society for Microbiology: February 2001
...mans. The appearance of sometimes severe behavior disturbances in animals infected with BDV and preliminary studies on patients with schizophrenia have suggested that BDV may play a role in human psychiatric disorders. In the study, the researchers compared the prevalence of BDV in patients with mood disorde...Blood test for diagnosing schizophrenia
...y 1 percent of the population, is characterized by disturbances in the person's emotional functioning, perception of reality and thought processes. Because the biological basis of this disease is still a mystery, diagnosis is based on psychiatric and behavioral assessment. Still, numerous research findings sugges...First gene therapy to calm pigs' out-of-sync hearts
...erican Heart Association. While some heart rhythm disturbances are relatively benign, others, by disrupting the heart's coordinated pumping, are an immediate cause of collapse and death. "Drug treatments can help, but don't fix the underlying causes of the problem," Donahue adds, "and continued use can actually...Taking the long view: examining factors which influence Northern Spotted Owls
...at increased knowledge of this and other kinds of disturbances could be used to develop new kinds of management practices which might provide or encourage the development of high quality habitat for the owls. The researchers further suggest that dispersed patches of different vegetation types may provide ...Ancient quakes leave mark from Kentucky to New York
...ds of little change. And an increased frequency of disturbances may increase the risk that change will occur."...Brain size in premature infants significantly smaller than full-term babies
...vioral difficulties that are associated with these disturbances in brain development." The research was funded by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), which is part of the National Institutes of Health, and the nations leading supporter of research on the brain and nervous system...Some alcoholics may self-medicate with carbohydrates between drinks
...alcoholism. This study helps us to understand how disturbances in one of the important neurochemical systems, the serotonergic system, may be related to increased alcohol craving among certain alcoholics." "We know that impaired serotonin function can lead to depression, anxiety, aggression, and sleep problems,"...NSF awards $4.2 Million grants to three coastal sites for long-term ecological research
...bility in regional climate, freshwater inputs, and disturbances affect this ecosystem. The Everglades is the focus of the largest watershed restoration effort ever implemented, says Collins, and this restoration will dramatically change the timing and amount of freshwater entering the system. Georgia Coastal E......vents or family crisis and genetic factors. Since disturbances in serotonergic transmission are widely associated with impulsive, violent behaviour, the promoter region of the serotonin transporter gene (5-HTTLPR) is receiving increasing interest in psychiatric genetic research. The authors examined whether the...Biological legacies a key of ecological rebirth after Mount St. Helens eruption
...ly it to human-caused disturbances. Human-imposed disturbances -- for example clearcutting a site -- typically re...owstone wildfires of 1988. Another example of how disturbances aren't uniform comes from the live trees outside the blast zone, visited by Hinckley and groups of s...Strict diets required for chronic disease management may increase risk of unhealthy eating behaviors
...t diet may be more vulnerable to a range of eating disturbances that varies depending on the disease, according to the results of a small study. Eating disturbances are unhealthy eating attitudes and behaviors that are not severe enough to qualify as full-blown eat......t has long been known that many severe psychiatric disturbances show a heightening of the anxiety response," Rosenfeld said. "With these findings, we provide an initial motivation for further dissecting two distinct receptor systems in terms of potential drug discovery programs." Rosenfeld's research group inclu......). Scientists have long known these motor control disturbances result from damaged brain cells. Now, researchers at Johns Hopkins think they may have identified the nervous system mechanism linked to these symptoms and the part of the brain causing them. They also found that subtle jerkiness in movements may ap...Schizophrenia research links form and function
...ies in one brain region produce and/or result from disturbances in other brain areas,” writes David A. Lewis, M.D. of the Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, in an accompanying editorial. He cited three relevant studies also published in the January AJP: KaiVogeley, M.D. and associates of ...American Psychiatric Association January 2000 tipsheet
...s may help control neuropsychiatric and behavioral disturbances in Alzheimer’s. These agents also may help psychiatrists and other physicians treat other disorders with cholinergic system abnormalities and neuropsychiatric symptoms. [“Cholinesterase Inhibitors: A New Class of Psychotropic Compounds,” ......nts thus rendering the ecosystems moresensitive to disturbances and less likely to recover from the impact of changesin burning regime. Additional vegetation and fire history records from northern and centralAustralia are needed to prove these hypotheses, the researchers say. The work reported in Science was fund...UF Anthropologists Study Techniques To Solve Mysteries Of Dead Bodies
...grow veryquickly, making it difficult to tell from disturbances in the soil that abody is present, he said. One case Falsetti is researching involves a badly burned body found chainedto a tree, surrounded by burned insects. "Because we know that insects cometo a body after death, there's something about the time ...New Edition Of Ecological Monographs Is Now Available
...f globalwarming. Scientists conclude that natural disturbances in forests (fires,insect outbreaks, windstorms, et...sts focused on the ecologicalimplications of flood disturbances on populations of black ash (Fraxinusnigra). Study plots were designated around Lake Duparquet in Q......than the grains of sand.Knots are able to read the disturbances in the pressure field and perhapseven amplify it to some extent. The rapid up-and-down movements of thebird's beak loosen the grains of sand, which then become packed togethermore tightly, displace the interstitial water and cause the residual pressu...