Anti-convulsant treatment benefits disruptive, explosive youth
...hat "the rash use of an off-label medication could possibly lead us into situations where educators and distraught parents pressure psychiatrists and other physicians to prescribe medication without a full diagnostic evaluation, without monitoring, and without adequate scientific evidence of safety and effect...The power of the mother-child bond
...ntake, and/or help the baby sleep. Yet apart from possibly helping the mother relax, said Mennella, "there's no scientific evidence that supports the folklore, in fact, it's the opposite." "Some doctors today still recommend drinking before nursing," observed Spear, "but there is still so much that is unkn...ZymoGenetics discovers potential new therapy for autoimmune diseases
...iscovery of a potential new therapy for lupus, and possibly other autoimmune diseases . Administration of a novel immunosuppressive agent developed at ZymoGenetics inhibited disease symptoms and prolonged life in a mouse model of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). This research, reported in the April 27, 2...Microbes on Earth may be key to identifying life on other planets
...rbon dioxide de-gassing, temperature decreases and possibly evaporation are the primary environmental controls on travertine mineralogy, Fouke said. "So the environmental context could be the key to determining whether or not a particular feature is an entombed microbe." On Earth, microbes also can be found ...Memory, forgetfulness help hamsters time breeding
...he encoding signal further into the hamster brain, possibly to the hippocampus, an area linked to other types of memory....Chemical from venom of Chilean tarantula could aid treatment of heart attack, other major diseases
...isonous insects. We didn't know why any bug would possibly make such a thing, but thought it was worth a try." They first tested scorpion venoms because of their known effect on nerve impulses, but those didn't work. They then ordered up various spider venoms (There are companies that keep and "milk" spide...Shedding light on luminescence: Scientists visualize structure of the photoprotein aequorin
...ological systems, and, under the right conditions, possibly also for use in industrial settings."...Alcohol and thiamine deficiency together: a dangerous combination?
...nts. The first two conditions may respond to, and possibly be reversed by, thiamine treatment. The final and - for all practical purposes, untreatable - phase is dementia. "This study significantly adds to the database in at least one respect," said David V. Gauvin, psychopharmacologist and drug science spe......told they have the disease but also that they have possibly passed it on to their children." Olson first visited San Luis in 1988 as a graduate student in Dr. Anne Young's lab at the University of Michigan. "During my visits to Venezuela, I formed an emotional bond with these people," says Olson. "Even tho...How stress maintains population levels
...rently affecting fish in the Chesapeake Bay -- and possibly even AIDS. "Our data showed that high-density populations of house finches that became infected with mycoplasmal conjunctivitis experienced a dramatic drop in numbers within two to three years after the epidemic began and that they stabilized at a...UCSF researchers find evidence of faulty DNA repair in some infertile men
...uld then have an increased risk of infertility, or possibly even tumor formation later in life, according to the study. "We don't know which scenario will be true." Turek said. Turek said researchers should follow-up on the health and development of ICSI children in couples with severe male factor infertili...Can a deadly spider replace chemical pesticides?
...es and moths. "A containment environment could not possibly hold a virus," says McGavin, who opposed trials of a scorpion toxin virus in Oxfordshire in the 1990s. "If you could get a specific baculovirus it would be great, but baculoviruses do pass on [to other species]." There are also fears that the toxin ...New test for presence of nitric oxide could improve medical knowledge
...ed neurobiological events in living organisms, and possibly even medical applications, could emerge," Lippard adds....Where does Japan's whale meat come from?
...umented trade in meat from accidentally caught and possibly poached whales, claim researchers. According to a new analysis of whale meat in the country, if the trade continues it could drive a unique subgroup of minke whales in the Sea of Japan to extinction. Sale of whale meat is legal in Japan if it come...Mom may set your body clock, suggests Science research
...t start working until around the time of birth, or possibly later. Now, scientists from Ecole Normale Suprieure, CNRS, and the Institut de Gntique et de Biologie Molculaire et Cellulaire, CNRS/INSERM/ Universit Louis Pasteur have found that a key component of the circadian clock starts "ticking" in zebrafish ......ce suggesting a fruitful line of research towardsa possibly effective prevention or treatment strategy in a subset of autisticchildren." Sandler suggested that "the next step, besides repeating clinicalstudies, is to go to the lab and try and find out why these effects may havebeen observed." The initial hyp...Brain contains cocaine-like chemical
...le of CART peptide in other areas of the brain and possibly extend the studies to primates. As a consequence of animal studies on the effects of cocaine on the brain, scientists have determined that CART peptide also influences hunger, stress, endocrine control, and sensory processing. In addition to Kuhar, t......um moves quickly through soil into groundwater and possibly into rivers, where it can harm juvenile fish. Early demonstration of the technology shows potential for large cost savings. Additional tests are planned at a DOE site that has extensive chromium contamination. Energy efficiency at 'core' of home ...Study links impulsive violence with brain's inability to regulate emotion
...in dysfunction opens a new avenue for studying and possibly treating violence and aggression. "We are placing the question of violence right in the middle of our basic research on the neurobiology of emotion, because our previous insights in this area give us tremendous leverage to understand the root causes ......ain, however, destroyed only monkey blood vessels, possibly explaining why this Ebola strain did not cause disease in humans. As the scientists focused on GP, they found that a part of the protein that becomes modified with sugars had a toxic effect on the virally infected cells. When the researchers made fo...