Welcome to LabBook, our weekly roundup of University of Chicago Medicine & Biological Sciences research news from around campus and the world wide web. Each Friday, LabBook will recap the week on the blog, link to news stories about our faculty and studies, and briefly summarize a handful of recent publications by our researchers. LAST [...]
Time for SharpBrains’ November 2012 eNewsletter, featuring latest science, tools and thinking to upgrade brain health. Before we start, do you believe these 32 neuromyths? Do we only use 10% of our brain? New Science: Fast cycling can help Parkinson’s Disease patients strengthen brain connectivity for motor ability There’s no single silver bullet to treat depression (not even [...]
When you’re moving something huge, like a seven-ton magnet for an MRI machine, you can’t exactly take the elevator. This fall when workers installed the MRI magnet on the fifth floor of the new Center for Care and Discovery, they used a giant crane to bring it in through a window. Sounds easy, right? At [...]
Exercise Rate Related to Improvements in Parkinson’s Disease (RSNA release): “People with Parkinson’s disease benefit from exercise programs on stationary bicycles, with the greatest effect for those who pedal faster, according to a study presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA). Functional connectivity magnetic resonance imaging (fcMRI) data [...]As we’re preparing to release a major market report, we’d like to ensure we have all interested reporters, analysts and bloggers in our Media List. If you’re interested in brain health & innovation and want to be notified as soon as the report becomes available, please Fill This Form and let us know a bit [...]Brain Health Center expands services (San Francisco Chronicle): “…Now, the services the medical team provides will be expanded at the new Brain Health Center, which opened last month at CPMC’s Davies campus in San Francisco. The center, made possible by an anonymous $21 million donation that established an endowment, offers patients with neurodegenerative problems and their [...]
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In February we’ll open the doors of the Center for Care and Discovery to hundreds of patients, medical staff and visitors. But they won’t be the first residents of our new hospital: The building will already be colonized by millions of bacteria, though that isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Jack Gilbert, PhD, assistant professor of [...]Design a Brain Experiment Competition, by the Dana Foundation: “The Dana Foundation is devoted to promoting an interest in brain research in schools across the country. Encouraging students to take an interest in scientific research, especially related to the brain, is crucial, not only for students, but also for the future development of neuroscience. Therefore, [...]
Welcome to LabBook, our weekly roundup of University of Chicago Medicine & Biological Sciences research news from around campus and the world wide web. Each Friday, LabBook will recap the week on the blog, link to news stories about our faculty and studies, and briefly summarize a handful of recent publications by our researchers. THIS [...]
Peter Singer, MD, MPH, was awarded the second annual $50,000 MacLean Center Prize in Clinical Ethics on Saturday, and challenged this weekend’s Dorothy J. MacLean Fellows Conference to think bigger about medical and clinical ethics. And to think globally. “Bioethics is actually, on reflection and especially clinical ethics the way it’s practiced here [at the [...]
When a giant asteroid struck the tip of the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico at the end of the Cretaceous Period roughly 65 million years ago, the dinosaurs of North America were doomed no matter what. The impact almost certainly triggered a plant die-off that led to mass extinctions among animals big and small. Using statistical [...]