Chemical maps hint at drug's effects on schizophrenia
... susceptible to schizophrenia, and why some people respond better to treatment than others or develop metabolic side effects, she added. Schizophrenia is a devastating mental illness that is characterized by hallucinations, delusions and changes in outlook and personality. Currently there are no biological...Genetic markers in surrounding tissues linked to breast cancer tumor grade, presence of metastases
...ample, breast cancer (or virtually any malignancy) respond differently. The complexities of genetic alterations in breast cancer may provide a primary basis for these consequent (secondary) clinicopathological features, an idea supported by prior positive correlations between certain breast cancer genotype a...Pioneering study maps attention, memory and language links in the human brain
...sks in Christensen's experiments. They're asked to respond by pressing a button when they hear words that fal... make the task a bit harder, subjects are asked to respond only when they hear a woman's voice speak a word in the chosen category. The task taxes attention ev...New therapeutic targets for neurodegenerative diseases
...cell that recognise a pharmaceutical drug and thus respond to it) and, in the last analysis, to come up with pharmaceutical medicines that improve treatment....Stress of deployment increases risk of child abuse, neglect in military families, UNC study shows
...igh stress or the services alone cannot adequately respond to the needs of the families. "Some kind of additional intervention should be considered," she said. "This might include providing more support and educational programs for family members remaining behind during separations, as well as increased mo...Stanford researchers identify immune dysfunction in melanoma patients
...ity of people with this deadly skin cancer fail to respond properly to a molecule called interferon, which no...ctivates the immune system. Without the ability to respond to interferon, the cells are less able to fend off the cancer, according to the study that will be p...A frown or a smile? Children with autism can't discern
...f course, but the areas of the brain that normally respond to such visual cues simply do not respond. Led by Mari Davies, a UCLA graduate student in psychology, and Susan Bookheimer, a professor of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA, the...HCV patients survival after liver transplantation is not improving
...ious studies have shown that these patients do not respond as well to liver transplantation. The difference has become even more striking in recent years, leading some to suggest that survival rates have been decreasing for patients with HCV who have received transplants. Researchers led by Paul Thuluvath ...New study probes how religion can help HIV/AIDS patients
...n Development to study how religious organizations respond to HIV/AIDS within their congregations and communities. The grant will fund a two-year study in which UC researchers will interview clergy from 150 different religious organizations in Greater Cincinnati and compare their responses with 60 HIV/AIDS......and how age alters the heart, and how older hearts respond to disease." Together with researcher Dr Jason Peart, his team have identified normally protective processes within cardiac cells that become ineffective with age. "When we experimentally target this 'cascade of proteins' it is possible to rend...Monthly interpersonal psychotherapy prevents relapse of depression in many women
... treated the same way, said Dr. Frank. Some people respond best to therapy, others to medication and others to a combination of the two. Its important that clinicians evaluate their patients carefully to determine the best treatment for each individual. ...Web-based asthma program dramatically improves disease management for low-income black students
...and spacers, asthma trigger avoidance and plans to respond to asthma symptoms, said Dr. Joseph. Asthma education for adolescents should also address depression, unresolved anger at having the disease, denial and fear of being perceived as weak or different. The average age of participants was about 15. Fem...Researchers identify new therapy for patients with Crohn's disease
...reatment for adults with Crohns disease who do not respond to infliximab (REMICADE) therapy. These findings were published online today by Annals of Internal Medicine. Crohns disease is an inflammatory disorder of the gastrointestinal tract that affects an estimated 500,000 people in the United States. Sym...Studies suggest investigational agent reduces disease activity in MS
...eeded, especially for people who do not adequately respond to currently available medications. These data are also important because they demonstrate that B-cells, which are the precursors of antibody-producing cells, play an essential role in mediating relapses of MS." In the first study, a randomized, pl...Iyengar yoga can promote well-being in women breast cancer survivors
...ce yoga have changes in the way their immune cells respond to activation signals, which may be important for understanding how physical activity and meditative practices benefit the immune system. The function of genes in immune cells can be regulated by proteins called transcription factors. Transcription ...Your brain and hormones may conspire to make you fat
...eriods of food shortages. But the brain may also respond to stress in the same way, encouraging the intake ...umption of fat and calories increases. Some people respond very well to these hormones and they dont gain weight during these bouts of overeating. But others a...Decision making by the growing elderly population is uncharted territory
...While that improvement may exist, older people who respond emotionally may be more prone to becoming victims of scam artists, who often play on emotion, Peters said. An emerging idea, she added, is that an older persons motivation may change from the forward-looking vision of a young person to one that pri...New mechanism identified for resistance to targeted lung cancer drugs
...eatment with these drugs. Although tumors that respond to EGFR inhibitors do so rapidly and dramatically, eventually the tumors become resistant and resume growing. About half the time, a secondary mutation that interferes with the drugs' binding to the receptor develops within the EGFR gene. A new gro...Medical students should be taught about rape
...etter response, and teaching future doctors how to respond would be a good start."...Drugs for Parkinson's disease may ease stroke-related disability
...icate that patients with damage to the putamen may respond differently to this treatment than patients who ha...he side where the stimulus appeared. Slowness to respond to stimuli appearing on the left side of the video screen, she theorized, would mean the patient had...