Rutgers College of Nursing faculty member is funded to develop an interactive computer system
TO THE POINT: Rutgers College of Nursing faculty member is funded to develop an interactive computer system that delivers video vignettes aimed at reducing HIV sexual risk in young urban women. ...... ...NEWARK, N.J. The National Library of Medicine awarded a Rutgers College of Nursing faculty member, Rachel Jones, and her team a three-year $398,000 grant to develop an interactive computerized...Rutgers-Newark researchers link early movement, brain development
When a baby kicks a mother from within her womb, the mother may joke that the baby could be angry, ready to come out, or is destined to become the world's next great soccer player. But researchers at Rutgers University-Newark have determined that these kicks mean much more than those light-hearted explanations and may hold the key to how an infant's brain develops in its earliest stages. ...In a...Rutgers-developed biomaterial drives a technology transfer story toward success
NEW BRUNSWICK/PISCATAWAY, N.J. - The New Jersey Center for Biomaterials has generated what it hopes to be the beginning of a technology transfer success story that originated through the work of Rutgers University Professor Joachim Kohn in his search for improved biomaterials. ... ...Kohn's new biomaterial is a bioresorbable polymer. It was exclusively licensed early in 2004 by Rutgers' Office o...Rutgers scientists pinpoint brain cells involved in drug addiction relapse
NEW BRUNSWICK/PISCATAWAY, N.J. Relapse among recovering drug addicts can now be linked to specific nerve cells in a particular region of the brain, according to a team of researchers at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. The discovery may help pave the way for new addiction therapies and intervention strategies.... ...Long after an addict has become drug-free, simple events or circums...Rutgers researcher: Brains in dyslexic children can be 'rewired' to improve reading skills
(NEWARK) In a scientific first, researchers have shown that the brains of dyslexic children can be "rewired" through intensive remedial training to function more like those found in normal readers.... ...Paula Tallal, Board of Governors Professor of Neuroscience at Rutgers-Newark, and other members of a multi-university research team used brain-imaging scans of dyslexic children to demonstrate t...Rutgers study shows learning ability under stress still strong in Prozac-treated females
NEW BRUNSWICK/PISCATAWAY, N.J. The drug Prozac protects a female's learning abilities after a stressful or traumatic event, according to a new research study conducted at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey....... "Depression is a devastating illness that is often accompanied in females by an inability to concentrate and learn," said Tracey J. Shors, an associate professor in the depart...Rutgers wins funds to create online index of moving brain images
NEW BRUNSWICK/PISCATAWAY, N.J. - Researchers at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, have been awarded $2 million by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop a new approach to indexing and comparing images of the living, thinking brain. ... The researchers will develop computer software that will allow medical researchers and physicians around the world to share information and...Rutgers researcher finds brain connections may reorganize in Parkinson's disease
Researchers at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, have discovered critical clues that may explain why parts of the brain damaged by Parkinson's disease, specifically those that control sensory-guided movements, aren't repaired by dopamine replacement therapy....... Parkinson's is the second most common neurodegenerative disease affecting older people in the United States and is charact...Rutgers research shows caffeine may prevent skin cancer
NEW BRUNSWICK/PISCATAWAY, N.J. Treating the skin with caffeine has been shown to prevent skin cancer in laboratory studies conducted in the Susan Lehman Cullman Laboratory for Cancer Research at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. ... "It is not a sun-screening effect, but it's something more than that it's a biological effect," said Allan Conney, William M. and Myrle W. Garbe Profes...Rutgers' announces Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Awards in Health Policy Research
Rutgers' Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research has announced the recipients of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's (RWJF) annual Investigator Awards in Health Policy Research. Nine grants totaling $2.4 million will be awarded to 13 scholars from universities across the country.... ...The national RWJF Investigator Awards program, administered by Rutgers' Institute for Heal...International Thiamine (Vitamin B-1) Conference at Rutgers Newark
Thiamine (Vitamin B-1) researchers from around the world will convene at Rutgers-Newark for an International Conference on Thiamine: Its Biochemistry and Structural Biology, May 18-21. Thiamine is a coenzyme that plays a vital role in carbohydrate metabolism within all cells of the human body, as well as in certain human metabolic disorders. ... Frank Jordan, Board of Governors professor of chem...Rutgers develops virtual reality treatment for hand impairment in chronic stroke patients
NEW BRUNSWICK/PISCATAWAY, N.J. Rutgers researchers have filed a patent application for a PC-based virtual reality system that works alone to provide stroke patients effective, intensive nontedious hand-impairment therapy even years after a stroke has occurred. ... ..."Virtual Reality-based Post-Stroke Rehabilitation" is discussed in a paper presented Jan. 24 at the 10th annual Medicine Meets Vir...Rutgers researchers developing technology to help New Jersey farmers "grow" pharmaceuticals
. NEW BRUNSWICK/PISCATAWAY, N.J. In research that could turn Garden State farmers into highly profitable manufacturers of pharmaceuticals and other therapeutic agents, Rutgers University scientists have developed a way to use living plants to reliably and inexpensively manufacture biologically active compounds ranging from human insulin to cancer-fighting supplements. . A researc...