U. of Colorado researchers identify switch that controls aging in worms
...elash-sized roundworm, C. elegans, said CU-Boulder psychology Professor Thomas Johnson. Johnson, who is a fellow in the universitys Institute for Behavioral Genetics, or IBG, said DAF-16 is a critical part of a complex signaling pathway that involves insulin and glucose. IBG Research Associate and principal au...Record in research dollars: UH receives $12.3 million in November
...ge is Spanish, said David Francis, UH professor of psychology and the lead investigator on the project. The aim is to understand how schools help Spanish-speaking children achieve optimal educational outcomes and the important roles that language plays in these outcomes. Francis received $2 million in November...Prizes awarded in the 2002 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Programme
....5 million Deutschmarks) Reinhold Kliegl studied psychology at the University of Regensburg and the University of Colorado at Boulder, USA. He was awarded his PhD by the University of Colorado in 1982 and qualified as a university lecturer at Berlins Free University in 1992. Following appointments at the Max ......sed memory developed by Seth Roberts, professor of psychology at UC Berkeley. They found that supplementation im...Brain Aging and Dementia at UC Irvine. UC Berkeley psychology graduate student Afshin M. Gharib worked with Liu to conduct the peak performance tests. "In aging, ...Symptoms of illness less severe in hamsters during winter, study finds
...f the study and a professor of psychology and neuroscience at Ohio State ...i Bilbo, a doctoral student in psychology at The Johns Hopkins University, currently working in Nelson's lab. "Siberian ha...Children from risky families suffer serious long-term health consequences, UCLA scientists report
... health, said Rena Repetti, associate professor of psychology at UCLA and lead author of the article, in the current issue of the journal Psychological Bulletin. Growing up in risky families creates a cascade of risk, beginning early in life, which puts a child not only at immediate risk, but also at long-term ...Some animals can recognize degree of kinship by scent
...ly tree with their noses," says Cornell University psychology researcher Jill M. Mateo. Her five years of field studies in the California mountains, as reported in the Proceedings: Biological Sciences (April 7), a journal of The Royal Society, Britain's national academy of science, are the first to show how...Discovery Channel special watches OSU chimps learn to read
... Sally Boysen, a professor of psychology at Ohio State, has spent more than two decades investigating how a colony of chimps at the university learn and communicate. Her latest work is the subject of an hour-long documentary, "Keel...Link found between low birth weight and DNA from mothers
..., a University of Washington research professor of psychology and lead author of a study published in the current issue of the American Journal of Primatology. The National Institutes of Health funded the research. "We definitely think that our findings will hold up when human data becomes available," he s...Buffalo neuroimaging researchers studying multiple sclerosis from inside human brain
... measure of whole-brain atrophy. Jin Kuwata, a UB psychology graduate, is administering cognitive tests to MS patients and comparing their performance with the amount of atrophy shown on their brain scans, making the connection between gray matter damage and mental function. Christopher Tjoa, a computer scien...'Meow' isn't language, but enough to manage humans
...ed language. But a Cornell University evolutionary psychology study -- analyzing people's reactions to feline v...tro, who is a student in the laboratory of Cornell psychology assistant professor Michael Owren, found a clear negative relationship between pleasantness and urge...Scientist detail how brain regulates sensory information
...on processing," says Ford F. Ebner, a professor of psychology and cell biology at Vanderbilt and the other leader of the research team. "Our results show that the sensory cortex performs a complicated extraction of information about what the whiskers touch, while the motor cortex output moves the whiskers to a...Brains of outgoing people react more to happy faces than those of shy individuals
... paper's lead author who is currently an assistant psychology professor at State University of New York-Stony Br...included Heidi Sivers, who earned her doctorate in psychology from Stanford last year and went on to pursue postdoctoral work at the University of Oregon Health S...Gene may protect abused kids against behavior problems
... behavior." The research group, led by UW-Madison psychology professor Avshalom Caspi, studied 442 males living in New Zealand for 26 years beginning at their birth. The subjects were part of the longitudinal Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study started in 1972. The group looked for variatio...Research links adolescent steroid use to reduction in serotonin, altered signaling
...ional Institute of Health, Northeastern University psychology professor Richard Melloni and graduate student Jill Grimes examined the phenomenon of long-term steroid use through a series of experiments on groups of adolescent male Syrian hamsters. During adolescence, this particular breed of hamster displays a ...Dr. Francis White, FUHS/CMS, receives MERIT Award
...D., has devoted more than 25 years to the study of psychology and pharmacology, the synthesis of these two disciplines being neuropsychopharmacology: the science of drug-behavior relationships. As Professor and Chair of the Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology and the Director of the Neuropsychopha...Families with two or more children with autism sought for $10.2 million study
...e Dawson, director of the UW's Autism Center and a psychology professor, heads the interdisciplinary team of researchers. Dawson said children selected for the genetic study will receive free diagnostic evaluations, and their families' travel and hotel expenses associated with the study also will be covered. T...MRI technique lets researchers directly compare monkey and human brains
... study co-author and a professor of psychology at Ohio State University. Scientists didnt have any choice but to make that assumption, as the monkey brain was the only model we had to work with. What set the fMRI...A newly identified learning and memory area in the human brain
...intensively studied in the fields of neuroscience, psychology and psychiatry. Dementia, such as Alzheimer's disease, is a serious problem to society and family. The structures associated with learning and memory have been widely studied for hundred years. The idea of learning and memory diffusely stored in the ......y (8); geosciences (7); computer science (10); and psychology and psychiatry (10). ISI is a business of The Thomson Corporation, a leading provider of integrated information solutions to business and professional markets worldwide. Headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with offices worldwide, ISI provide...