Winners of the DFG Bioinformatics Initiative
...hey maintained that, over the next few years, this mood would enable bioinformatics to gain ground in international competition, helping to secure Germany's competitiveness in large areas of the life sciences.......osed major depression. Symptoms include depressed mood or loss of interest or pleasure, combined with at least four of the following: sleep disturbances, weight loss, changes in appetite, psychomotor agitation, feelings of worthlessness or excessive guilt, impaired cognition or concentration, and recu...Clinton names a diverse group of researchers to receive the 2000 National Medals Of Science
...ain abnormalities in people with schizophrenia and mood disorders. Raven, a preeminent scientist in plant systematics and evolution, has published 550 books and papers. He introduced, with his colleagues, the concept of coevolution, which helped refocus much subsequent evolutionary research based on the ......late the activity of neural circuits to influence mood and sleep. The millisecond relay of glutamate to thousands of nerve cells sparks the brain into high activity. Mental retardation is associated with a loss of the dendritic spines on post-synaptic neurons that play a role in receiving glutamate m......de, acne, back pain, breast tenderness, headaches, mood changes and nausea. Like many contraceptives, MIRENA does not protect against HIV infection (AIDS) and other sexually transmitted diseases. Use of IUDs has been associated with an increase risk of PID. A decision to use MIRENA must include considera...Physicians present most comprehensive clinical review of St. John's wort for treating depression
...alth care provider." Symptoms to watch for are low mood or loss of interest in activities normally found enjoyable, and at least four of the following symptoms persisting two weeks or more: an increase or decrease in sleep; tearfulness; an increase or decrease in appetite; decreased energy; inability to ...Tips from the journals of the American Society for Microbiology: February 2001
...rs compared the prevalence of BDV in patients with mood disorders and schizophrenia with healthy blood donors in Japan. They found a relatively low incidence (less than 10 percent) of the virus in all groups. "Previous seroepidemiological studies by Western blot analysis have suggested a possible ass...Genetic contributions to suicide
...actor for a phenotype combining suicidal behavior, mood disorder and impulsive aggression. Citation source: Molecular Psychiatry 2001 Volume 6, number 3, pages 268-273. (2) "Association between violent suicidal behavior and the low activity allele of the serotonin transporter gene" Authors: P Courtet, P ...A neurogenetic approach to alcoholism
... Three behavior patterns - disinhibition, negative mood states, and a low response to alcohol - are releva...sm: disinhibition (impulsive aggression), negative mood states (such as anxiety and depression), and a low response to alcohol. "Several hypotheses have ...Northwestern receives $17 million for functional genomics research
...ders of the nervous system, such as schizophrenia, mood disorders and autism."...Physically fit, leaner older people are happier, study says
...d, less angry, less tense and in an overall better mood than those who were less fit. By contrast, participants with higher percentages of body fat said they were more depressed, more angry, more tense and not as happy. "We encourage all older people to increase their levels of fitness and maintain a h...New study questions role of ginseng as mood enhancer
...y supplement ginseng is purported to improve one's mood and all-around vigor, but a new study published to...t Oregon State. "We found it had no real effect on mood at all. It certainly did not live up to some of its over-enthusiastic marketing claims." Among the ...New study shows oral contraceptive may be effective in treating severe form of premenstrual syndrome
... medical condition characterized by severe monthly mood swings and physical symptoms that interfere with everyday life, has a noted impact on a womans relationship with her family and friends. Cyclic symptoms of depressed mood, anxiety, irritability, breast tenderness and bloating go far beyond those asso...Two Hopkins faculty members receive 'genius' awards
...d to increase understanding of suicide and serious mood disorders. "Jamison has combined the talents of a scientist with those of a writer who can explain the subject of mental illness to the afflicted," says Paul McHugh, M.D., the Henry Phipps Professor of Psychiatry at Hopkins. "Her concentration on ma...Female vulnerability to drugs tied to estrogen, U-M researcher reports
...uce all of the effects attributed to it, including mood swings, improvement in verbal abilities, decreases in spatial abilities, and enhanced sensory and motor functions, including lower thresholds for visual, olfactory and tactile stimuli and more rapid complex motor sequence abilities. Recently, Becker...Testosterone dose-repsonse relationships in healthy young men
...s assessed by a computerized checkerboard test and mood by Hamilton's depression and Young's mania scales. Adverse experiences, blood counts and chemistries, prostate-specific antigen (PSA), plasma lipids, total and free testosterone, luteinizing hormone (LH), sex steroid-binding globulin (SHBG), and ins...Seroquel Adjunctive therapy offers significant benefits over mood stabilisation monothrapy
...he atypical antipsychotic Seroquel (quetiapine) to mood stabilisation therapy is significantly more effective than mood stabilisation alone. The data, presented today at the 2nd International Forum on Mood and Anxiety D...Bipolar disorder successfully treated with nutritional supplement
...atry points to possible link between nutrition and mood stabilization The idea that effective mood stabilization can be achieved through the use of vitamins, trace elements and amino acids is advance...Discovery that common mood disorders are inherited together may reveal genetic underpinnings
...identification of symptoms characteristic of major mood disorders and other psychiatric conditions in relatives. We found that if one family member has both panic disorder and bipolar disorder, then the risk of panic disorder in other relatives is greatly increased, says MacKinnon. These links reflec...Hormone therapy may boost quality of life, say Stanford researchers
...om annoying to life-altering, such as hot flashes, mood swings, vaginal dryness, lowered libido and trouble sleeping. Many women opt to replace lost estrogen through hormone replacement therapy - as much to reduce these symptoms as for achieving health benefits. However, contradictory reports about long-t...