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Can an evolutionary perspective increase satisfaction with the DSM?

Updated: 2012-03-20 20:11:41

Home About People Resources Meetings courses The Evolution Medicine Review bridging the gap Posts Comments Fast somatic evolution creates heterogeneity in metastatic tumors Harvey Fineberg NEJM article on how to fix the US health care system Can an evolutionary perspective increase satisfaction with the DSM Mar 20th , 2012 by The Editors Towards a genuinely medical model for psychiatric nosology Randolph M Nesse and Dan J Stein in BMC Medicine 2012, 10:5 doi:10.1186 1741-7015-10-5 Available open access at http : www.biomedcentral.com 1741-7015 10 5 abstract Abstract Psychiatric nosology is widely criticized , but solutions are proving elusive . Planned revisions of diagnostic criteria will not resolve heterogeneity , comorbidity , fuzzy boundaries between normal and pathological , and

Fast somatic evolution creates heterogeneity in metastatic tumors

Updated: 2012-03-19 21:39:56

Home About People Resources Meetings courses The Evolution Medicine Review bridging the gap Posts Comments Evolutionary Medicine Month at UCLA Can an evolutionary perspective increase satisfaction with the DSM Fast somatic evolution creates heterogeneity in metastatic tumors Mar 19th , 2012 by The Editors Intratumor Heterogeneity and Branched Evolution Revealed by Multiregion Sequencing By Marco Gerlinger , et al.in New Engl J Med 2012 366:883-892March 8, 2012 Not open access Figure Abstract : Large-scale sequencing analyses of solid cancers have identified extensive heterogeneity between individual . tumors 1-6 Genetic intratumor heterogeneity has also been shown 7-15 and can contribute to treatment failure and drug resistance . Intratumor heterogeneity may have important consequences for

Evolutionary Medicine Month at UCLA

Updated: 2012-03-18 21:56:07

Home About People Resources Meetings courses The Evolution Medicine Review bridging the gap Posts Comments Evolutionary Applications converts to Open Access Fast somatic evolution creates heterogeneity in metastatic tumors Evolutionary Medicine Month at UCLA Mar 18th , 2012 by The Editors February 2012 was Evolutionary Medicine Month at UCLA , organized by Barbara Natterson-Horowitz , M.D . Director of Imaging in the Division of Cardiology , and Daniel Blumstein , PhD , Chair of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology . A report is . below Evolutionary Medicine Month EMM at UCLA sponsored interdisciplinary clinical and educational activities throughout the month of February to advance interest and awareness of this emerging field . We developed this program as a collaboration

Evolutionary Applications converts to Open Access

Updated: 2012-03-07 00:12:46

Home About People Resources Meetings courses The Evolution Medicine Review bridging the gap Posts Comments Phenotypic Variation Due to Epigenetic and Environmental Variation Evolutionary Medicine Month at UCLA Evolutionary Applications converts to Open Access Mar 6th , 2012 by The Editors In its five years of publication , Evolutionary Applications has rapidly established itself as a top tier journal . The journal publishes papers that use evolutionary concepts and methods to address questions of applied . importance Evolutionary Applications recognizes the importance of maximizing the visibility and accessibility of published research and thus beginning in 2012 has switched to an author-pays open access model . All articles are now freely accessible on the journal website :