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Mental Health Business Week

Susan Hasty, Publisher

Table of Contents . . . March 13th, 2004

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Avanir Pharmaceuticals - Pharmaceutical company reports loss of $0.09 per share

Avigen, Inc. - Hemophilia treatment developer reports yearly loss of $1.28 per share

Cortex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. - Neuroscience company reports net loss of $0.02 per share

Kadmus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. - Private pharmaceutical company receives $15.3 million in series A financing round

Merz Pharmaceuticals, GmbH - Neurobiological Technologies receives $2.25M related to Memantine

Addiction Medicine - Publication addresses compulsive gambling

Akdeniz University - Accidental dural puncture during epidural anesthesia causes subdural hematoma

Allos Therapeutics, Inc. - Phase III study of RSR13 initiated in women with brain metastases

Boehringer Ingelheim, GmbH - Study: More than one out of three women with urinary incontinence have SUI

Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy - New form of mad cow disease is discovered

Ceregene, Inc. - Broad patent granted for neurologic gene therapy

Children's Hospital Boston - Key advance reported in regenerating nerve fibers

Chonbuk National University - Cases of diabetic cervical radiculopathy with capsulitis of shoulder reported

Deakin University - Hypothalamic genes implicated in Psammomys obesus obesity identified

Drug Guidelines - Investigation focuses on payments to state agency, officials

Environmental Health - Environmentalists say President Bush, Florida governor are harming water quality

Erasmus Medical Center - Link found between parkinsonism and dementia

Florida State University - Protein synthesis necessary for dendritic spine proliferation in adult brain

Gluten Intolerance - Celiac disease may predict schizophrenia

Harvard University - Higher spatial resolution of fMRI is needed for neurosurgical planning

Kinjo Gakuin University - Black and green tea polyphenols lower blood pressure in rats

Legal Decisions - Florida legislature still unclear on end-of-life laws

McGill University -  MTHFR mutation raises pediatric hyperhomocysteinemia risk

Mental Health - Amnesia blamed on nightmare, though skeptics remain

Mental Health - Hundreds of coins found in patient's belly

Mental Health - Late-night mental health niche filled in Maryland

Mental Health - Mental health reform plan nothing new

Methadone - Nebraska aims to protect children from methadone laboratories

Mount Sinai School of Medicine - Ziprasidone improves cognitive function in schizophrenic patients

Neurochem Inc. - FDA grants fast track approval for Fibrillex

Oregon Health & Science University - Anorexigenic fatty acid synthase inhibitor is nonspecific neuronal activator

Oxford University - Genetic abnormalities are related to neuroendocrine tumor progression

Pfizer, Inc. - Federal appeals court upholds dismissal of Zoloft lawsuit

Postpartum Depression - Magellan identifies barriers to diagnosis, treatment of postpartum depression

Predix Pharmaceuticals Inc. - In-silico anxiety drug to undergo phase I clinical trials

Roche Diagnostics - Rights acquired to a key cardiac marker, NT-proBNP

Royal Free Hospital, London - Specialty nurses benefit patients with neuroendocrine tumors

Russian Academy of Sciences - The gravity of one's pregnancy is reflected by certain temperamental traits

SRI International - Quinolizidine template for opioid receptor ligands synthesized

Socratech Laboratories - Sepsis drug also protects brain cells

Stanford University - Having an outlet for stress may lower patients' mortality risk

State Medicaid - Massachusetts governor to propose new way to care for elderly

U.S. National Institute on Aging - New study may explain how fats damage neurons

Univ. of California, Irvine - Tests suggest some predisposed to smoke

Univ. of North Carolina - Fetal mouse brain cells self-destruct when maternal folate levels are deficient

Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill - Practice-based education for doctors improves delivery of preventive childcare

Univ. of Roma La Sapienza - Orofacial pain syndromes can be evaluated by laser stimuli

Univ. of Texas SW Medical Center - Rate of LV hypertrophy progression to heart failure evaluated

Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison - DHEA boosts growth rate of human neural stem cells

Univ. of the Basque Country - Depression and anxiety relate to alexithymia in women with eating disorders

University of Aquila - Surgery leads to biochemical remission of acromegaly in 55% of patients

University of Bologna - Can drugs prevent recurrence of depression? The news is depressing

University of Essex - Glycation end products accumulate in kidney, retina, and peripheral nerve

University of Massachusetts - Chronic cough significantly impacts life quality in women

University of Padova - Treatment for endocrine disease: Is something missing?

University of Pennsylvania - Effect of APOE gene variants on European life expectancy clarified

University of Rochester - Neurologists create a font of human nerve cells

University of Toronto - More women are using atypical antipsychotics during pregnancy

University of Toronto - Mouse brain cancer is monitored longitudinally with MRI

University of Toronto - Women at high risk of breast cancer pleased with preventive mastectomy decision

University of Vienna - Progestins can be a hindrance or a help to women with certain disorders

University of Washington - Stem cells found in adults may repair nerves

University of the Mediterranean - Platelets reorient endothelial adhesion of infected RBC

Washington State University - Maternal selenium deficiency increases oxidative stress in fetuses

Washington University - Small amounts of alcohol or anesthetics may damage the developing brain

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