Topic: Columbia University
Should academic journals be in the business of selling content or should they be re-invented as not-for-profit knowledge portals and user communities, funded and regarded in similar ways as public media? This spring, a panel of experts gathered by Columbia University's Scholarly ...
although the human brain has an impressive amount of storage space for memories, it does not keep each one indefinitely. In 2007 researchers at Columbia University showed that genetically modified mice that cannot generate new neurons in the hippocampus-a brain area involved ...
Dinosaurs rose to dominance 200 million years ago after volcanic eruptions killed off their rivals, and were later wiped from the face of the Earth by a meteorite, paleontologists have found. Volcanic gases led to an abrupt rise in global warming that ...
Gene tests appear to reduce levels of some inherited diseases Some of mankind's most devastating inherited diseases appear to be declining, and a few have nearly disappeared, because more people are using genetic testing to decide whether to have children._ In Boston, ...
People with schizophrenia from families with no history of the illness were found to harbor eight times more spontaneous mutations - most in pathways affecting brain development - than healthy controls, in a study supported in part the National Institutes of Health's ...
Different variations in the same gene influence how well different ethnic groups, and people within the same ethnic group, respond to various antipsychotic medications, report NIMH-funded researchers. The gene containing the variations, RGS4, had been implicated in schizophrenia in previous studies. Results ...
Doctors Believe That Exercise, Medications Are Why Some Aging Brains Remain SharpWhen aging hampers memory, some people's brains compensate to stay sharp. Now scientists want to know how those brains make do — in hopes of developing treatments to help everyone else ...
When aging hampers memory, some people's brains compensate to stay sharp. Now scientists want to know how those brains make do — in hopes of developing treatments to help everyone else keep up. This is not Alzheimer's disease, but the wear-and-tear of ...
When aging hampers memory, some people's brains compensate to stay sharp. Now scientists want to know how those brains make do, in hopes of developing treatments to help everyone else do as keep up. This is not Alzheimer's disease but the wear-and-tear ...
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