Child sex abuse policy recommendations published in Science magazine
...t cognitive and neurological mechanisms that may underlie the forgetting of abuse have been scientifically identified Freyd's co-authors for the Science article include Frank Putnam , Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center; Thomas Lyon , University of Southern California Law School; Kathryn Becke...UCI epilepsy researcher receives nation's top neuroscience prize
...ly novel research avenues into the mechanisms that underlie post-traumatic epilepsy." Research in the Soltesz lab focuses on how traumatic brain injury leads to seizures and epilepsy. More than a million people suffer traumatic brain injury in the United States every year, and head injury is the leading caus...New kidney function test better than standard at predicting death and cardiovascular outcomes
... normal creatinine. Evaluating the mechanisms that underlie this strong association between the kidney and cardiovascular disease would be critical for targeting prevention efforts, he said. Participants in the Cardiovascular Health Study were aged 65 or older at baseline. Their creatinine and cystatin-C mea...Media violence linked to concentration, self-control
...g the neurological and self-control processes that underlie the aggressive behavior."...Brain function in schizophrenia can improve with support, holds promise for cognitive rehabilitation
...w way of understanding the cognitive problems that underlie schizophrenia, and offers hope that schizophrenia's suffering can be alleviated through the development of more effective cognitive rehabilitation programs. "These are interesting findings for a number of reasons," said Aaron Bonner-Jackson, lead au...Size of brain structure could signal vulnerability to anxiety disorders
... look at genetic or environmental factors that may underlie these differences in brain structure and also investigate whether vmPFC size predicts the success of exposure-based therapies for anxiety disorders. Another factor to study would be whether vmPFC measurement should be used to screen those likely to ...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for July 2005 (second issue)
...ng. The two most frequent disease conditions that underlie COPD are severe emphysema and chronic bronchitis. ...moking are the primary cause for the diseases that underlie COPD, which, in 2002, claimed the lives of 120,000 Americans and cost the nation $37.2 billion. In t...UQ researchers tackle emotions head on at the cellular level
...lfunctions. "In particular, fearful memories that underlie disorders such as post-traumatic stress disorder and anxiety are thought to be mediated by long term changes in the strength of connections between cells in the amygdala," Dr Faber said. "We found a particular protein is crucially involved in regula...Penn named a 'Breast Cancer Center of Excellence' by Department of Defense
...er progression. "Understanding the mechanisms that underlie breast-cancer progression will help us to understand the molecular basis for aggressive forms of this disease," says Chodosh. "Similarly, determining how and why breast cancer cells become dormant should lead to improved methods for finding and eradi...Babies born at night have greater risk of death, study finds
...eds to be done to identify the causal factors that underlie this greater risk. This would be an important next step in developing effective strategies to prevent these excess neonatal deaths from occurring. If even one or two of the key elements could be identified, that could make a big difference in savin...Women missing out in heart treatment more needed in clinical trials
... man's (the pharmacokinetics). "These differences underlie the importance of studying women as well as men in major cardiovascular trials. Most of the progress in this direction has occurred in the USA as a direct consequence of the commitment of funding agencies that have provided economic support only when...Sharper picture of major depression and alcohol disorders
...theses about common biobehavioral factors that may underlie both conditions." The NESARC results demonstrate a strong relationship of MDD to substance dependence and a weak relationship to substance abuse, a finding that suggests focusing on dependence when studying the relationship of depression to substanc...Biomedical engineer shows how people learn motor skills
...ning so that a combination of neuronal outputs can underlie adaptation simply and flexibly. Thoroughman showed that this tuning of space is instead flexible. "We challenged those well-known theories with evidence that the neuronal tuning of movement space changed within minutes of training our subjects.," Th...Neural development protein disproved as marker for schizophrenia
... Events affecting brain development are thought to underlie the occurrence of schizophrenia in later life. Oct-6 plays a crucial role in neurodevelopment, and a genetic variation within the Oct-6 gene has been linked to a subset of patients with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder; therefore, Oct-6 seemed like...What makes the brain tick, tick, tick. . .
...enges. One is to find the molecular processes that underlie this internal clock. And the second challenge is to build more realistic models of how this timing process works, with constant, parallel input from throughout the brain." In such studies, the researchers face the daunting process of trying to monito...A recipe for overeating: Studies outline dangers of mixing stress, deprivation and tempting foods
...ood, in this case cookies. This, they write, "may underlie the common clinical observation that just a bite of highly palatable (often forbidden) food triggers binges and makes it difficult to abstain from binge eating." The researchers speculate that the deprived and stressed rats may have been in a "hed...RNA splicing occurs in nerve-cell dendrites
...generate spliced RNAs in dendrites or proteins may underlie aspects of these disease processes." By revealing the capacity of mRNA splicing in dendrites, the investigators hope to develop an understanding of its role in cognition and dysfunction. Eberwine and colleagues are now working to find an endogenous ...Cincinnati Children's scientist wins achievement award for advances in heart disease research
...n mutations and alterations in protein levels that underlie basic disease processes. With this information, scientists can determine whether the protein directly or indirectly causes changes in the heart. By purposely creating the expression of an engineered protein in the heart, scientists can study the cons...Synaptic connections need nurturing to retain their structure and keep outsiders at bay
... role in maintaining the molecular mechanisms that underlie long-term depression (LTD) at the parallel fiber-Purkinje cell synapse. LTD, an experience-dependent modification in the response of a nerve to stimulation, is viewed as a molecular form of memory. The molecular machinery that produces LTD is thought...UCLA imaging study of children with autism finds broken mirror neuron system
...gest that a dysfunctional mirror neuron system may underlie the social deficits observed in autism," said Mirella Dapretto, lead author and assistant professor in residence of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA and the David Geffen School o...