NYU College of Dentistry study equates poor oral health with preterm birth risk
Pregnant women with high levels of an oral bacterium associated with tooth decay and caries (cavities) are at risk for delivering preterm low birth weight (PLBW) babies, according to a study that was published today in the Journal of Periodontology. The study marks the first time that preterm delivery has been associated with oral bacteria other than those which cause infections of the gums (per...NYU'S Duster cautions against FDA approval of 'race-based' pharmaceutical
New York University Sociologist Troy Duster concludes that a pharmaceutical to combat heart disease among blacks is based on faulty research and urges the Food and Drug Administration to obtain more reliable data before approving the drug. Duster, president of the American Sociological Association, writes that research on isosorbide dinitrate and hydralazine (BiDil), produced by NitroMed, incorre...NYU Child Study Center receives grant from the American Red Cross September 11 recovery program
NEW YORK, February 23, 2005 The NYU Child Study Center is pleased to announce the creation of the Silver Shield Life Enrichment & Continued Care Program which will be offered to widows and children of firefighters, policemen, emergency medical service and port authority personnel whose lives were lost as a result of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. This project was supported by a Se...NYU psychology researchers show how attention enhances visual perception
Researchers at New York University have determined the location in the brain where involuntary attention enhances visual processing. The researchers, from NYU's Department of Psychology and Center for Neural Science, found that attending to, or selectively processing information from a given location without directing our eyes to that location, enhances performance in visual tasks as well as the...NYU Child Study Center raises a record $3.4 million at Seventh Annual Child Advocacy Award Dinner
December 8, 2004 (New York, New York) On Monday, December 6, 2004 the NYU Child Study Center raised a record $3.4 million at the Seventh Annual Child Advocacy Award Dinner held at Cipriani 42nd Street. This year's dinner, "Changing the Face of Child Mental Health," was chaired by Linda and Arthur Carter and honored The Honorable Michael R. Bloomberg, Mayor of the City of New York for his dedica...NYU Child Study Center researcher receives award from NARSAD
New York, NY (October 19, 2004)--Rachel Klein, Ph.D., Director of the Institute for Anxiety and Mood Disorders at the New York University Child Study Center and Professor of Psychiatry at the New York University School of Medicine, has been awarded the fourth annual Joy and William Ruane Prize for Children and Adolescent Psychiatric Research to be awarded at NARSAD's Gala Dinner on Friday, Octobe...NYU Child Study Center to launch Healthy Kids, Happy Futures
The NYU Child Study Center, Project Liberty and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) are proud to announce the release of Healthy Kids, Happy Futures, a pediatric education campaign. With support from Project Liberty, the program aims to assist pediatricians in becoming more proficient in identifying signs of trauma and other mental health problems in children and adolescents directly affe...Oral History Research Office and NYU Child Study Center receive grant for oral history project
(NEW YORK, May 19, 2004) The Oral History Research Office (OHRO) at Columbia University and the New York University (NYU) Child Study Center have partnered to create "Telling Lives Project: September 11 Stories," a project to help youth in New York City's Chinatown use oral history methods to explore the legacy of September 11, 2001. ... ...Funded by the ChevronTexaco Foundation, "Telling Lives P...The NYU Child Study Center presents the inaugural State of the Science lecture
On Monday, April 26, 2004, the NYU Child Study Center (CSC) will host the Inaugural CSC State of the Science Lecture. Professor Sir Michael Rutter of the Institute of Psychiatry, London, has been selected to receive the first New York University Child Study Center Mental Health Award and his lecture, "Autism Research: Lessons from the Past and Prospects for the Future" will follow a short award...NYU Child Study Center and The Bear Stearns Charitable Foundation launch outreach campaign
NEW YORK, March 24, 2004 The NYU Child Study Center and The Bear Stearns Charitable Foundation today announced that they have embarked on the second phase of their ongoing educational campaign aimed at raising awareness of the potential emotional impact of 9/11 and its aftermath on children. ... ...The initiative centers on a series of television public-service announcements ("PSAs") designe...NYU Child Study Center raises nearly $3.2 million at annual child advocacy award dinner
December 5, 2003 (New York, New York) On Wednesday, December 3, 2003 the NYU Child Study Center raised nearly $3.2 million, a record setting amount, at the Sixth Annual Child Advocacy Award Dinner held at the Regent Wall Street. This year's dinner, "Giving Children Back Their Childhood," was chaired by Beth and Michael Fascitelli and honored Lawrence H. Summers, President of Harvard University,...NYU Child Study Center to honor Larry Summers, President of Harvard and Ann Tenenbaum and Tom Lee
On Wednesday, December 3, 2003, The NYU Child Study Center will host its sixth annual dinner at the Regent Wall Street. Chaired by Beth and Michael Fascitelli, this year's dinner, "Giving Children Back Their Childhood," will celebrate the remarkable advances researchers from the Child Study Center have made in the field of mental health which, in turn, will help children suffering with mental di...Senator Jon S. Corzine pledges support to NYU Child Study Center
United States Senator Jon S. Corzine, a longtime supporter of the NYU Child Study Center, has made a generous commitment of $2 million to establish the Corzine Family Associate Professorship of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Center's Institute for Children at Risk. The endowed chair will be held by the Director of the Institute, Laurie Miller Brotman, Ph.D. Dr. Miller Brotman is the fir...NYU School of Medicine attracts a powerful MRI machine
In the coming month, 25 flatbed trucks will roll into New York City to deliver 420 tons of steel to New York University School of Medicine. ...The steel will surround a massive superconducting magnet that forms the center of a 7-Tesla MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) machine expected to be in operation in 2004 at the School of Medicine. It will be the most powerful MRI machine in the New York met...NYU division of nursing awarded $2-million NIH grant
The National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health awarded a $2-million grant to a team of faculty members from New York University's Division of Nursing to conduct a clinical trial of education and counseling approaches for breast cancer patients and their partners. ... ... Women who are diagnosed with and treated for breast cancer face a variety of unique psychological, ph...NYU Medical Center selects Siemens as strategic partner
New York, June 3 -- NYU Medical Center announced today that it has entered into a strategic alliance with Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc., designed to establish the academic medical center as one of the nation's preeminent institutions for imaging in clinical care and scientific research. The landmark agreement will bring to NYU Medical Center a broad array of state-of-the-art imaging equipm...Mayor Bloomberg proclaims March 11th 'NYU Downtown Hospital'
On September 11, 2001 with less than 10 minutes to prepare - NYU Downtown Hospital organized the most extensive disaster response ever undertaken by a U.S. hospital. Amid the avalanche of bleak news from ground zero at the World Trade Center, the Hospital became known to the world as the little hospital that could, emerging as an island of hope in a sea of chaos. Just three blocks from the disas...NYU/U. Rochester team find neurons in visual cortex adapt to images within .5 seconds of viewing
.When you gaze out of a train, the scenery appears to move even after the train.has stopped. Vision researchers have generally dismissed this type of.after-affect as a perceptual glitch that happens only after extended viewing of.particular types of images. But now a team of NYU/U.Rochester neuroscientists.have found that such after-affects may occur constantly and may be a critical.part of nor...NYU researcher unveils the scientist in painter Chuck Close
. NYU Vision Scientist Denis Pelli Says Close's Paintings Refute Long-Standing.Assumptions About How Shape Is Perceived . . . .The work of painter Chuck Close is well known. For 25 years, he has created.gigantic "block portraits." Up close, his paintings appear to be orderly arrays.of painted squares. But as the viewer backs away from the canvas, a human face.emerges. The common explanation.... Findings By Glimcher and Platt Challenge Paradigm First Proposed 300 Years Ago.by Descartes . .How do the brains of humans and animals make decisions - what direction to move,.what food to eat, where to sleep? Decision theory, a branch of the social.sciences developed by economists and psychologists to explain behavior, has long.proposed that humans and animals decide what to do in a given si....NYU anthropologist Randall White has uncovered evidence that female statuettes.carved in various parts of Europe during the Paleolithic period were intended.primarily to protect the health of mother and child during childbirth. White's.findings contradict the long-held assumption that the main intent of these.statuettes was to promote fertility.. .White's findings are based on a comprehensive...