Mental Health Business Week

McGill University, Montreal - New findings in the area of breast cancer detailed

McMaster University - Startling diary reveals the onset of autism

Medical College of Georgia, Augusta - ET-1 contributes to salt-induced hypertension in endothelin-B-deficient rats

Medical University of Warsaw - SSR and RRIV tests useful in dysautonomia assessment

Meharry Medical College, Nashville - Dentate gyrus potentiation analyzed, role of infuled benzo(A)pyrene shown

Mental Health - Book outlines way to halt the progression of mental illness

Mental Health - Work on North Carolina psychiatric hospital plan running behind

Monash University, Clayton - ESC-derived neurons response in a manner similar to primary central neurons

Monell Chemical Senses Center - Food-craving activation during functional MRI examined

National Institute of Neurology, Milan - Study explored the genetic basis of complex I deficiency

National Public Health Institute, Kuopio - Newly developed drinking-water biofilms favor growth of Nitrosomonas-type AOB

NeuroNutrition, Inc - Supply company created to develop and market clinically tested products

Neurocrine, Biosciences - Biopharmaceutical company announces new drug application

New River Pharmaceuticals - Pharmaceutical company provides update on clinical trials and pipeline

Okayama University - Heightened mortality rate linked to acute liver failure patients

Okayama University - Hyperactive cannabinoid systems may be involved in schizophrenia etiology

Oregon State University - Antibacterial effect of wine may be a synergy of organic acids, ethanol, low pH

Osaka University - Amyloid formation analyzed, thermodynamic parameters directly measured

Osaka University - Oxidative stress increase in obesity contributes to metabolic syndrome

Pacific NW Research Institute - Adenoviral overexpression protects pancreatic islets from oxidation

Pall Corporation - Pharma company finds way to remove prions that cause mad cow in humans

Pediatric Healthcare - Schools responding to increasing use of hyperactivity drug

Peking University - Expression of plasminogen activator achieved by inducing stress responses

PrecisionMed Inc. - Collaboration seeks to develop noninvasive diagnostics for Alzheimer disease

Proteomics - Protein can help doctors predict how dangerous clogged arteries will be

Research and Markets - Market research company announces report on CNS diseases and drug delivery

Schizophrenia - Clinical data released for secretin in refractory schizophrenia

Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla - CD163 identifies a unique population of ramified microglia in HIV encephalitis

Shahid Beheshti Univ. of Medical Science, Tehran - Maternal fasting during Ramadan doesn't adversely affect child's later IQ

Shire Pharmaceuticals Group Plc - Pharmaceutical company surprised by Canada's suspension of treatment for ADHD

Slovak Academy Science, Bratislava - High trait anxiety may be associated with inadequate hormone release

St. Jude Children's Hospital - Candidate Purkinje cell-specific transcript markers identified

St. Jude Children's Hospital, Memphis - Aipl1-deficient mice model a disorder that causes pediatric blindness

St. Jude Children's Hospital, Memphis - Bioinformatics and gene profiles join to analyze the developing brain

Tokyo Medical & Dental University - Oct-3/4 repression accelerates differentiation of neural progenitor cells

Tottori University - Stress-induced expression of MC4R gene in the amygdala and hypothalamus

Tsuno Food Industrial Company Ltd. - Rice bran extract prevents elevation of plasma peroxylipid in diabetes

U.S. Army - Tungsten-alloy shrapnel causes tumors, cancer in rats

Univ. of California, San Diego - Gene dysregulation found in cortex of HIV encephalitis patients

Univ. of California, San Francisco - Diagnosis of prions in patients should utilize novel strategy