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Brain implant aims to stifle drug highs
What happens if addicts get no high from the drugs they take? Researchers at ӰƵ and Illinois State University received a grant for $390,000 from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to help answer the question. Addiction experts believe a mechanism that robs drugs of t...
5 questions with…33-year Student Affairs employee Mayo Bulloch
Much has changed around campus since Mayo Bulloch arrived at ӰƵ nearly 33 years ago—from the buildings to the people, not to mention the programs available on campus. Bulloch has played an influential role in shaping programming for students at ӰƵ. As ...
Nursing school to study effectiveness of home visits for patients with HIV, chronic illnesses
Researchers at ӰƵ’s Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing will assess the effectiveness of palliative care home health visits in treating people with HIV and other chronic illnesses in a new four-year, $1.7 million study funded by the National Institute of Nursing Resea...
New approach protects prion protein from altering shape, becoming infectious
Important step toward pharmacologic development of treatment for fatal brain disorders A team of researchers from ӰƵ School of Medicine has identified a mechanism that can prevent the normal prion protein from changing its molecular shape into the abnormal form responsib...
CWRU researchers trace inner-city women’s health issues to childhood traumas
Researchers at ӰƵ have examined how childhood abuse and neglect affect chronic health problems in adulthood for inner-city women. The latest findings, reported in the journal Child Abuse & Neglect, complement prior studies of other socioeconomic groups and now provide a...
Findings force scientists to rethink rules of neuroimaging
Is there a brain area for mind wandering? For religious experience? For re-orienting attention? A recent study casts serious doubt on the evidence for these ideas, and rewrites the rules for neuroimaging. Brain-mapping experiments attempt to identify the cognitive functions associated with discret...
”Kangaroo Care” offers developmental benefits for premature newborns
New research in the Journal of Newborns & Infant Nursing Reviews concludes that so-called “kangaroo care” (KC), the skin-to-skin and chest-to-chest touching between baby and mother, offers developmentally appropriate therapy for hospitalized preterm infants. In the article, “Kangaroo Care as a Neon...
5 questions with…new VP of Student Affairs Louis Stark
A far cry from the big city lifestyle of his hometown of Long Island, N.Y., Louis Stark attended college at Davis & Elkins College—a small-liberal arts school with an enrollment of less than 800 students in the mountains of Elkins, W.Va. It was there that Stark became involved in student activities...
National Senior Games coming to Cleveland, CWRU
Over the next two and a half weeks, about 11,000 athletes will come to Cleveland for the 2013 National Senior Games—the world’s largest multi-sport event for athletes over age 50. That’s approximately the same number of competitors in the 2012 Olympic Games in London. Such a large event calls for a...
Researcher receives grant to further work connecting oral bacteria, fetal death
A new four-year, $1.58 million grant from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR), will allow a ӰƵ School of Dental Medicine researcher to advance her work linking oral bacteria to fetal death. The grant will support a study by Yiping Han, pro...