Animal Studies Indicate Aging Brain Responsive To Estrogen
...iamsis an associate professor in the department of psychology -- experimental,and Einstein is an assistant research professor in the medical center'sdepartment of neurobiology. Their research was sponsored by the AmericanFoundation for Aging Research, the National Institute for Aging, and theAlzheimer's Associa...Researchers Find Production Point Of Key Protein In Fragile X Syndrome
...ead researcher William T. Greenough of the U.of I. psychology department and the U. of I. Beckman Institute for AdvancedScience and Technology. There is no cure for fragile X syndrome, which is caused by the geneticinability to normally produce the fragile X protein. "Fragile X"refers to the broken appearance ...A New Biochemical Link Established Between Stress, Sex And Dominance
...gy program at Stanford. He is also a professor of psychology and a member of the Neurosciences program faculty. He and members of his laboratory already have shown that for cichlid fish, social position determines physiology. It's not so much that the biggest, brightest fish becomes dominant. Instead, a fish m...One Chimp Can Perceive States Of Awareness In Others
... Association. Sally Boysen, associate professor of psychology at Ohio State and directorof the project, said the fundamental question for the test was whether onechimpanzee could tell if another was ignorant of a specific situation, inthis case, of a threat or a reward. Boysen and her colleagues tested th......cordingto Elsie Taylor, a recent Ph.D. graduate in psychology and UW researcher. Gestational diabetes occurs in ...ft to developmental science," says Jaime Diaz,a UW psychology professor and Taylor's collaborator on the study. "We can studya newborn rat and learn much about m...New Research Suggests REM Is About Eyes Not Dreams
...dered to be the domain of disciplines ranging from psychology toneuropharmacology and it has not received attention from ocular physiologists." Dr. Maurice proposes a completely different purpose for REM sleep. Hedeveloped his theory when he learned of a young man whose eyes had beenimmobilized by ......veloping themice are Gerald Jacobs, a professor of psychology at the Neuroscience ResearchInstitute at UCSB; Jing Huang, a technician at the UW Department ofOphthalmology; Salam Shaaban, UW post-doctoral researcher now in privateindustry, and Jack Calderone, a UCSB graduate student....DFG To Set Up 32 New Postgraduate Research Groups - First "Virtual Research Group"
...unal breaks'; HU Berlin Humanities 'Gerontology in psychology and psychiatry: psychological potentials and limitations of old age'; FU Berlin'Modern knowledge areas. Emergence and development of a European information culture; Augsburg'Practice and theory of the creative process of the artist'; Hochschule der K...Social Disruption Leads To Shorter Survival In Monkeys With AIDS
...ccording to John Capitanio, assistant professor of psychology at the University of California, Davis, and co-author of the study published in the May-June issue of Psychosomatic Medicine . Capitanio and co-author Nicholas Lerche found that monkeys separated from a familiar companion within 90 days befo...Williams Syndrome: New UD Study May Shed Light On Rare Genetic Disorder-And Normal Development
...mely complex," says Barbara Landau, a professor of psychology anddirector of UD's Language and Cognition Laboratory. "But ultimately, it willshed light on how brain and cognitive development become compromised by smallgenetic defects. This, in turn, will enhance our understanding of how normaldevelopment occurs...News Backgrounder: Duke Primate Center Successfully Fosters Mysterious Aye-Ayes
...w aye-ayes use theirtapping to locate food -- Duke psychology professor Carl Erickson has spent thelast seven years experimentally challenging the animals to perform feats ofdetection. In his studies, he constructs puzzles consisting of mazes ofinsect-sized tunnels cut into the depths of pieces of lumbe...Social Stress Causes Dormant Herpes Virus To Resurface In Mice
...Gary Berntson, professor of psychology at Ohio State. The research was supported by grants from the Ohio State Comprehensive Cancer Center, the National Institute of Mental Health and the MacArthur Foundation Mind-Body ...Bat Sonar Sharper Than Thought; Much Better Than Man-Made Gear
...earcher at Brown, now associate professor of psychology at the University ofMaryland.......in London and Philip Dale, University ofWashington psychology professor. It focused on both the entire range of normalvariation among children and on children who ranked in the bottom 5 percent inacquiring language. The researchers found that twins, whether identical or fraternal,generally scored very ...New Hypothesis Proposed For Cause Of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
...nology, and Janice Kiecolt-Glaser, professor of psychology and psychiatry at Ohio State University, is the latest work in more than two decades of their research on the effects of stress on the human immune system. “Our data suggests that stress may be causing the expression of certain vir...Williams Syndrome: UD Research Pinpoints Language And Learning Traits Of Those With The Disorder
... and location," says Barbara Landau, a professorof psychology and director of UD's Language and Cognition Laboratory. The UD research, directed by Landau, in collaboration with research specialistAndrea L. Zukowski, Prof. James Hoffman and others, is shedding light on howWilliams Syndrome affects the brain and ......roscience, David Corina, an assistant professor of psychology at theUniversity of Washington, reported on the roles of two brain regions calledBroca's area and the supramarginal gyrus. The findings came from a rare case, adeaf person called S.T. who uses American Sign Language. S.T. underwent aprocedure called...Memory Loss In Old Age No Longer Linked To Dying Brain Cells
...' tales. Michela Gallagher, a professor of psychology at The Johns HopkinsUniversity, announced recently at the 28th annual meeting of the Society ofNeuroscience that there is now overwhelming evidence showing that cognitivedecline in old age is far less a factor of neuro-degeneration than commonlythoug......e. Thiele is a research scientist in the psychology department at the UWand Palmiter is a professor of biochemistry and an investigator with the HowardHughes Medical Institute. Other members of the research team are Donald Marsh,a post-doctoral researcher in Palmiter's laboratory; Ilene Bernstein, pr......logy '96, now aFulbright scholar studying clinical psychology at the University of Virgina,worked with Robertson for his senior honors thesis. An article reporting hiswork, with Reilly as the first author, was recently published in "BehavioralNeuroscience." "Working in the lab has been an invaluable experience...