Rutgers professor Bart Krekelberg is named 1 of 20 US Pew Scholars for 2007
...s on sensory systems, neuroimaging, and the neural correlates of perception....JRRD releases single-topic issue on pain and pain management
...ns with pain and PTSD is needed. Prevalence and correlates of posttraumatic stress disorder and chronic severe pain in psychiatric outpatients, pg. 167 This study contributes to the growing literature on the co-occurrence of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and chronic severe pain. We found moderate r...NY-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center doctors present at 2007 AUA Meeting
...ermined that preoperative 3-D imaging tumor volume correlates to pathologic 3-D volume and independently predicts disease-free survival in patients with RCTs. Has the Predictive Significant of Positive Surgical Margins Following Prostatectomy Changes Over the Past 15 Years" [472] Authors: Mitchell C. Benson...Huge waves that hit Reunion Island tracked from space
...ange of 12 to 25 seconds." A larger wave period correlates to a more extreme wind event. The one that hit Saint Pierre, Reunion Island, had a 19-second range and initially originated from very intense storm winds on 8 May. Approaching the coastline, the wave system slows down and individual waves increase...Sleep deprivation can threaten competent decision-making
...g. This work is one of many evaluating the neural correlates of decision making but the first to apply such methods to sleep deprived individuals." Experts recommend that adults get between seven and eight hours of sleep each night to maintain good health and optimum performance. Those who think they might...Heart failure medication does not improve survival, compared to more widely used medication
...atriuretic peptide level [an amino acid level that correlates with both the severity of symptoms and the prognosis in congestive heart failure] for levosimendan. These findings may be related to the short duration of treatment in the trial, a selective effect of levosimendan in specific subgroups, or the lack o...Having elevated risk factors in young adulthood raises risk of coronary calcium later on
...ies have found that the amount of coronary calcium correlates with the amount of atherosclerosis or hardening of the coronary arteries and is related to the likelihood of developing heart disease in the future. Measuring coronary calcium is a noninvasive way of determining heart disease before it becomes sympt...Jefferson immunology researchers show blood-brain barrier damage could affect MS severity
...ain barrier in essence, opening it almost always correlates to the severity of the disease. The findings, repo...he fact that the extent of the permeability change correlates with the severity of clinical disease signs shows that this is an important element in determining h...Loperamide therapy for acute diarrhea in children
...er Plass and colleagues find that OLIG1 expression correlates with survival in lung cancer patients and suggest that it could be used in deciding which patients are likely to benefit from more aggressive therapy. Citation: Brena RM, Morrison C, Liyanarachchi S, Jarjoura D, Davuluri RV, et al. (2007) Aberrant ...Teens overlooked in cancer research
... surgery in human beings. This lack of involvement correlates directly with their poor survival rates, he said. Young people's feelings of invincibility, coupled with a lack of awareness about their cancer risk, are other factors. And often family physicians aren't suspicious enough of teenagers' symptoms, in...Patients with PTSD experience less pain sensitivity -- may be related to altered processing
...and colleagues conducted a study to examine neural correlates of pain processing in patients with PTSD. Twelve male Dutch veterans with PTSD and 12 male veterans without PTSD were recruited and matched for age, region of deployment and year of deployment. The experimental procedure consisted of psychophysical...Tipsheet: Focus on gait training, pain relief, pressure ulcers and hearing aid training
...den. An improved understanding of the severity and correlates of caregiver burden in PWPs may allow clinicians to better prioritize treatment strategies for PWP and be more aware of the caregivers' needs. A noncontact sensor for measurement of distal residual-limb position during walking, pg. 509 We develop...Study identifies factors correlated with cerebral palsy
...ster Hospital, London, and colleagues examined the correlates of CP in a population sample and compared clinical findings with information available from MRI brain scans. The study included 585 children with CP who were born between 1996 and 1999; 431 children were clinically assessed and 351 had a brain MRI sc...Study identifies part of brain responsible for tone deafness
...l skills. The study examined the structural neural correlates of tone deafness. Magnetic resonance imaging data ...the first investigation into the structural neural correlates of tone deafness. The results have implications for the understanding of normal acquisition of music...Planning guidebook to help make walking safer and more convenient
...ansportation program." Each goal in the guidebook correlates to several action items, and the guidebook provides basic planning tools to help achieve these ends. "This allows us over time to execute our goals and objectives incrementally to get to the more pedestrian-friendly environment we need in Georgia," A...Brain scan of nuns finds no single 'God spot' in the brain, Universit de Montral study finds
... main goal of the study was to identify the neural correlates of a mystical experience," explained Beauregard. "This does not diminish the meaning and value of such an experience, and neither does it confirm or disconfirm the existence of God." Fifteen cloistered Carmelite nuns ranging from 23 to 64-years-ol...Multiple sclerosis damage found in 'normal' brain tissue
...However, the volume of lesions visible at MRI only correlates moderately with clinical disability measurements," Dr. Vrenken said. "This may be due to disease activity outside the visible lesions." To gain a better understanding of the effects of MS on the whole brain, Dr. Vrenken and colleagues studied T1 c...Daytime light exposure dynamically enhances brain responses
...ses to light. Especially mysterious are the neural correlates of these responses, and their temporal dynamics. Such issues are of significant interest given that daytime sleepiness is a major source of complaint in modern society and has considerable socio-economic implications. In the present study, the rese...Herceptin effective in breast cancer cells with low HER-2 levels
...ant proportion of human breast cancer biopsies and correlates with poor prognosis. Lupu and her laboratory group discovered that continuous production of HRG in breast cancer cells that do not overexpress HER-2 causes the receptor to be continuously activated and therefore constantly signals breast cancer cel...Focus on weight undermines motivation for healthy lifestyle changes among people of all sizes
...n in particular -- a self-perceived weight problem correlates with sedentary behavior. White women of average weight are the only ethnic-gender group studied in which the proportion of sedentary individuals is not higher among those who consider themselves overweight, versus average weight, the study shows. ...