Mental Health Business Week

Massachusetts General Hospital - Report indicates how to keep V(D)J recombination under control

Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Fatigue life in bovine trabecular bone can be predicted using a model

Medical University of Warsaw - Utility of Spirotox acute toxicity test reviewed

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Cntr. - Group therapy doesn't improve survival in patients with early-stage breast cancer

Mental Health - Number of children taking antidepressants has dropped, study finds

Nakamura Gakuen University - Diabetes decreases hippocampal release of neurotransmitters

National Center for Multiple Sclerosis, Belgium - New immunosuppressants to treat multiple sclerosis developed

New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell - Low blood sugar a marker for babies at neurological risk during delivery

NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital - NewYork hospital launches $1 billion capital campaign

Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. - Pharmaceutical company receives product innovation award for antipsychotics

Our Lady's Hospital for Sick Children, Dublin - Neonatal encephalopathy may result from stress in an already compromised infant

Paul Hamel Institute, Valbonne - Function of potassium channel TREK-1 clarified

Pennsylvania State University - $7.9 million multi-institution project will study restless legs

Personnel - Massachusetts Institute of Technology expected to name new director for brain center

Predix Pharmaceuticals Inc. - Pharma company announces completion of trial for neuropsychiatric disorder drug

Proneuron Biotechnologies - Spinal cord injury therapy granted FDA orphan drug designation

RepliGen Corporation - Secretin and its receptor are expressed widely and early in the rodent brain

Royan Institute, Tehran - ESCs established from blastocysts differentiate into cardiomyoctes and neurons

Sangamo BioSciences - Bioscience company updates investors on development status of ZFP gene therapies

Spinal Muscular Atrophy Foundation - Entities collaborate to fund drug discovery for spinal muscular atrophy

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital - Eradication of brain tumor in lab model holds promise for treatment in humans

St. Louis University - Lipopolysaccharide affects leptin transport across blood-brain barrier

State University of New York, Buffalo - Switching from olanzapine to quetiapine promotes weight loss

Tarbiat Modarres University - Propoxure has no immunotoxic effects in mice

Technion-Israel Institute of Technology - Vitamin E may be effective in sudden hearing loss

TopCoder - Consortium identifies novel potential therapeutic targets for spinal cord repair

Tripler Army Med. Center - Prenatal exposure to ethanol causes partial diabetes insipidus in adult rats

U.S. National Institutes of Health - Polychlorinated biphenyls and breast cancer risk ambiguous

Univ. of California, Davis - Immediate breast reconstruction after mastectomy doesn't delay chemotherapy

Univ. of California, San Francisco - Zinc release contributes to hypoglycemia-induced neuronal death

University at Buffalo - Monkeys and humans form categories in strikingly different ways

University of Alberta - Children of schizophrenics not getting the treatment they need

University of California Davis - Human CMS-encoded interleukin-10 homolog inhibits maturation of dendritic cells

University of Chicago - Insulin secretion may cause oxidative stress in pancreatic beta cells

University of Colorado - Activation of myofibroblasts by TGF-beta1 may lead to valvular heart disease

University of Connecticut - South Africa: Close connection between sexual assault and women's STI, HIV risk

University of Copenhagen Hospital - Neuropilin-1 distribution associates with vascularity in astrocytic tumors

University of Hacettepe, Ankara - Street children/youth in Turkey misinformed about HIV transmission/protection

University of Heidelberg - Motor cortex plays role in phantom limb pain