Emotional control circuit of brain's fear response discovered
...e perceived consciously, however, the amygdalas of subject with both high and low levels of anxiety responded similarly. Dr. Hirsch explained that this previous finding suggested that subjects were somehow able to control their conscious emotional responses, but that their unconscious responses may be more a...Wiley to assume publication of Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine
...anslational and personalized medicine that will be subject to peer review. "We are excited at the opportunity to collaborate with Wiley and convert Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine from its current editorial format to one focused on personalized and translational medicine," said C. Warren Olanow, M.D., Prof...Same mortality but higher suicide rate among women with breast implants
...gone the surgery at an average age of 32, were the subject of regular follow-ups during a 15 year period. A total of 480 women with breast implants died during that period, and cross-referencing with the Canadian Vital Statistic Database was performed to determine the cause of death. Researchers did not obs...Annals of Internal Medicine tip sheet for Sept. 19, 2006
...t CAD. But multislice CT, while not invasive, does subject the patient to a substantial dose of radiation and an intravenous injection of a contrast agent, which can damage the kidneys. An editorial writer points out that the probability of CAD can be as high as 50:50 after a negative multi-slice CT (Edito...Mirrors in the mind: New studies elucidate how the brain reflects onto itself the actions of others
...real hand of an experimenter--to control whether a subject experienced that an experimenter's hand was the subject's own or not. This allowed the researchers to investigate whether finger movements made by the experimenter's hand were able to facilitate the subject's own finger movements--this facilitation w...Brain's action center is all talk
... the same areas of the premotor cortex in the same subject as the person observed an action and heard languag...ific action, such as kicking, also lit up when the subject heard the corresponding word. This was the first study to make such a direct comparison, Aziz-Zadeh ...VIRTUE clinical trial opens to primary immunodeficiency patients across the U.S.
...ons, the primary endpoint, was 0.04 infections per subject per year. Patients in that trial who were assessed for health-related quality of life reported increases in general health and showed a preference for SC administration over IV administration. VIRTUE will increase the experience of physicians and p...Diabetics see dramatic increase in lower limb amputations
...the day after the treatment. CLiRpath has been the subject of rigorous clinical trials, with limb salvage observed in 95 percent of patients surviving to six months(1). "Among all the complications from diabetes, amputation can be the worst," said Dr. Craig Walker, of the Cardiovascular Institute of the So...MRI can track survival of pancreatic islets after transplantation
...ped at the University of Alberta is currently the subject of a multicenter clinical trial. In a 2005 report, the Edmonton group noted that, while islet survival is improving, problems continue to exist both with immune rejection and with the initial post-transplantation engraftment of islets. Even in anima...ESA experiments with spaceflight participant Ansari to ISS
...ican entrepreneur Anousheh Ansari will be the test subject for four ESA experiments during her stay on board ...aceflight Participant Gregory Olsen who acted as a subject for ESA experiments in the frame of an agreement between ESA and Space Adventures, the company who o...Unique laboratory could make pavements more user-friendly
...ome difficult or confusing, e.g. a railway station subject to noises from different sources, strange lighting effects caused by shadows and arches, moving people and machines, changing floor surfaces and levels etc. Research of this kind could inform design decisions on issues such as surface types/colours/s...Don't rely on cold reason - trust your intuition as well
...s, GM foods, health care and nuclear power is the subject of an event to be held at the University of East Anglia on September 7th. Researchers from a number of social science disciplines will present their latest findings at the Coping with Uncertainty event in Norwich during the British Academy Festival o...Tumor necrosis factor blockers may not cause cancer after all
...DMARD users had more severe RA than MTX users. No subject had a diagnosis of any cancer before starting their prescribed drug treatment. Each subject was followed after beginning use of either a biologic DMARD or MTX, with attention to diagnosis of c...NOVA documentary honors pioneering African American chemist Percy Julian
...the celebration of Julian, whose life story is the subject of a two-hour PBS/NOVA documentary scheduled to be broadcast on Feb. 6, 2007, during Black History month. One of the sessions at the symposium -- "Dr. Percy L. Julian Scientist, Humanist, Educator, Entrepreneur, and Inspirational Trailblazer" -- w...JRRD tipsheet: Focus on stroke
...itation program on speech/language production in a subject with alexia and aphasia. In a single-subject desig...f-report. By the end of the treatment program, the subject could spontaneously produce 15/16 and 16/16 phonemes correctly, but treatment did not generalize to ...Annals of Internal Medicine tip sheet for Aug. 15, 2006, issue
... news release will be issued. This article is the subject of a video news release. Call for coordinates. Review of Court Documents Finds that Drug Company Systematically Used Medical Education and Research to Promote Off-Label Use A pharmaceutical company promoted its anti-seizure drug with a comprehen...Hearing loss and high-speed dental tools
... tools contribute to long-term hearing loss is the subject of a study currently under way in the OHSU Tinnitus Clinic and the School of Dentistry. According to Robert Folmer, Ph.D., one of the study leaders, published research is mixed about whether high-speed dental tools contribute to noise-induced hearing...Digital cameras and Internet ease the pain of oral disease
...ave the wave for the larger screening program, the subject of the article published in Journal of Telemedicine & Telecare. In total, 162 children from 1 to 5 years old in six Rochester inner-city child care centers were screened, with almost 40 percent shown to have ECC. Once identified, parents received a...The influence of money on medical science
...AMA, Dr. DeAngelis has written an editorial on the subject which will be posted online at www.JAMA.com Monday, August 7, 2006. " we have made no attempt to conceal the episodes of failure to disclose in a simple correction published in JAMA, and we will continue this approach until it becomes unnecessar...Elders suffer disproportionately during heat waves, other disasters
... National Academy on an Aging Society. Under the subject of "Disasters and Aging," this installment of the PP&AR also features articles discussing the impact of national crises and the lessons policymakers can learn from them. Two major weather events in the past several years have wreaked special havoc ...