UMaine study looks at infants and chronic nighttime crying
...iatric neurologist from Tokyo, Japan, and visiting scholar in the UMaine psychology department, with two Japanese co-researchers have identified several factors in an infant's first few months of life that can affect how they sleep and how often they awaken in distress during the night. The results of their ...Physicians may not be accurate in their confidence levels of their diagnoses, says Pitt study
...man, who is on leave from Pitt to work as a senior scholar and program officer in the National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., and his colleagues developed detailed written synopses from 36 detailed diagnostically challenging cases from patient records at the Univer...Bullying among sixth graders a daily occurrence, UCLA study finds
...ch school day, said Adrienne Nishina, postdoctoral scholar at UCLA's Graduate School of Education & Information Studies, a graduate of the UCLA clinical psychology program and lead author of the study. While other bullying studies have asked questions like, "How frequently have you been picked on?" the UCLA ...Protein that helps skin cancer spread identified by Stanford researchers
...th cancer formation. What Khavari and postdoctoral scholar Susana Ortiz-Urda, MD, PhD, found is that a fragment of collagen VII is required for the skin cancer cells to break free from the neighboring skin tissue and spread - a step that turns an otherwise benign tumor into a killer. "When we blocked this se...Brain imaging reveals secrets of love, fear and betrayal
...ts of the brain. Professor Mathews and Shakespeare scholar Jeffrey McQuain recently combined their expertise to produce a landmark book which examines some of neuroscience's most gripping questions through famous scenes from Shakespeare. The book, The Bard on the Brain, looks at Shakespeare's themes of love,...2005 H. Trendley Dean Memorial Award
...re Convention Center. Dr. Rozier is an outstanding scholar known worldwide for his leadership in Dental Public Health and oral epidemiology. His scholarly work and innovations have been adopted nationally and throughout the world. He has been active in public health service, and is known for his unfailing co...Brain-scanning technologies need standards, according to Stanford researcher
...to prevent abuse. Judy Illes, PhD, senior research scholar at the Center for Biomedical Ethics at the Stanford University School of Medicine, will discuss the clinical implications of new imaging technologies today during the "Neuroethics: Neuroscience and its ethical, legal and social implications" panel di...Ethics of neuroimaging research to be focus of NIH/Stanford meeting
... imaging studies. Judy Illes, PhD, senior research scholar at the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics, who is chairing the meeting, said she realized the scale of this issue in 2002. At that time, she, radiology professor Scott Atlas, MD, and others at Stanford published a study showing that 18 percent of ...New sampling method to track HIV-risk behavior
...mpleting a book on RDS while serving as a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation. A similar problem faced pollsters during the recent presidential election. "Phone-based polls were not able to access voters who had abandoned land-based phones in favor of cell and Internet phones or voters who merely...The brain science behind 'A beautiful mind'
...roscience at New York University. He is a leading scholar in the field of neuroeconomics; he recently published a book on neuroeconomics, Decisions, Uncertainty, and the Brain: The Science of Neuroeconomics (MIT Press/Bradford Press). Michael Dorris was a post-doctoral fellow in Professor Glimcher's lab whe...Dartmouth study suggests caution against using certain drugs to unclog heart arteries
...re Dr. Rohit Khurana, who was a visiting Fulbright scholar from University College London, Dr. Zhenwu Zhuang, Dr. Masahiro Murakami, and Dr. Ebo De Muinck, all from Dartmouth Medical School, as well as colleagues from London, Finland and Genentech of San Francisco....Rice bioengineer named to Technology Review's TR100
... among both faculty and students as an outstanding scholar and teacher," said Rice President David Leebron. "Her application of nanotechnology toward the non-invasive detection and diagnosis of diseases such as breast cancer holds great promise for improving prevention and treatment." Drezek, the Stanley C. ...Ethics of boosting brainpower debated by researchers
...ces. The group, led by Judy Illes, senior research scholar in biomedical ethics and in radiology at the Stanford University School of Medicine, will publish their thoughts in the April 20 online issue of Nature Reviews Neuroscience. The article will also appear in the May print issue of the journal. The grou...UCLA research explores biology of fear
...atric Institute's Tennenbaum Family Center faculty scholar and an assistant professor of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences. "Current treatment protocols use medications intended to blunt the physiological effects of fear and use behavioral therapy designed to space exposure to the fear stimulus over time...Blood-forming stem cells fail to repair heart muscle in Stanford study
...ow cells she used. Amy Wagers, PhD, a postdoctoral scholar in the lab of Irving Weissman, MD, the Karel and Avice Beekhuis Professor of Cancer Biology, took whole bone marrow from mice then isolated several purified groups of cells, including a highly purified subset of stem cells that can go on to form all ...Tuberculosis strains stay close to home, say Stanford researchers
...a community, said Aaron Hirsh, PhD, a postdoctoral scholar and lead author of the second paper. Small's laboratory examined the genomes of 100 distinct strains of the disease isolated from patients in San Francisco using microarrays - glass slides containing pieces of DNA that span the entire sequence of tu...Link between sleep, cancer progression explored by Stanford researcher
...es, and Sandra Sephton, PhD, a former postdoctoral scholar now at the University of Louisville School of Medicine, suggest that a person's sleep/wake cycle might be the connection. Spiegel will present this work at the annual American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting at a Feb. 13 session t...Rectal cancer treatment gaps, especially for African Americans, seen in new study
...egan the study while she was a Robert Wood Johnson scholar at the University of Washington, using the Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) cancer database. She and her colleagues examined surgery and radiation treatment patterns for 52,864 rectal cancer patients -- 3,851 of them black -- who wer...Funding and distribution of inappropriate drugs add to rising global childhood malaria deaths
...ia according to WHO. However, international health scholar Amir Attaran from the Royal Institute of International Affairs and colleagues from Africa, Asia, and Europe, document numerous cases where WHO is violating its own policy. The article states: 'Most African countries reluctantly cling to chloroquine, ...Drop in hormone therapy use shows physicians heed clinical trial findings, Stanford researchers say
...ficant. Adam Hersh, MD, PhD, a former postdoctoral scholar at Stanford and first author of the HRT study, said women receiving the medications are generally older, well-educated and take a great deal of responsibility for their health. "The rapid, significant response reflects a population of women who are v...