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2008 News Archives

December 17, 2008
Caryn Lerman, PhD is quoted in a Philadelphia Business Journal item about her new study, published in the journal Molecular Psychiatry, finding that some smokers may be genetically prone to concentration and memory problems during quitting attempts. This genetic predisposition poses an added risk of relapse, but Lerman and her coauthor, James Loughead, PhD say the findings pave the way for the development of personalized smoking cessation therapies.
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December 12, 2008
David Dinges, PhD and Ann Rogers, PhD, RN are interviewed in a Modern Healthcare cover story about recommendations released by the Institute of Medicine which say that medical and surgical residents in hospitals should work no more than 16 hours without taking a mandatory five-hour sleep break, and they should get one full day off a week and at least two back-to-back days off a month.
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December 8, 2008
ABC 6 investigates electronic Safe Cig products sold at local mall kiosks to see if they are safe for smokers attempting to quit. Doctors say electronic cigarettes are not FDA approved. Andrew Strasser, PhD says the product hasn't been thoroughly investigated.
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December 5, 2008
Robert Kotloff, MD and Peter Crino, MD, PhD spoke with WHYY Radio about a rare, fatal lung disease called Lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM) and its treatment.
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December 5, 2008
James Coyne, MD spoke with Mental Health Weekly regarding the JAMA study he co-authored which addresses depression screening for cardiac patients.
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December 4, 2008
Mark Salzer, PhD spoke on NPR’s All Things Considered in a story about students with mental health problems who, in the wake of the shootings at Virginia Tech, have been quickly suspended or expelled from colleges and universities after complaining of serious depression or suicidal thoughts.
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December 3, 2008
Elizabeth Hembree, PhD spoke with WHYY Radio about the VA’s efforts to bring prolonged exposure treatment to veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.
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December 3, 2008
David Dinges, PhD was featured in an article in the Washington Post and several television clips that appeared in ABC News affiliates in Pittsburgh, Boston and Palm Beach regarding the recommendations released by the Institute of Medicine which say that medical and surgical residents in hospitals should work no more than 16 hours without taking a mandatory five-hour sleep break, and they should get one full day off a week and at least two back-to-back days off a month.
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December 2, 2008
The research of Charles O'Brien, MD, PhD on the opioid receptor blocker, naltrexone, to prevent relapse to heavy drinking in alcohol-dependent patients, is discussed in a feature about the molecular biology and genetics of addiction in the December 2008 issue of The Scientist.
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December 1, 2008
The Philadelphia Inquirer highlights TMS, a new non-invasive, non-drug treatment recently approved by the FDA for depression, which was tested and is now available at Penn’s Treatment Resistant Depression Clinic. The article features John O’Reardon, MD as well as clinical trial participant Ernie Mercer.
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November 26, 2008
Martin Franklin, PhD discussed the mental illness trichotillomania in an ABCNews.com article about an 11-year-old girl in Mumbai, India. The girl was hospitalized with pain in her stomach; surgeons operated and found a foot-long hairball. The mass of hair - known as a trichobozear - is a potentially fatal result of trichotillomania, a condition in which the patient pulls her hair out and, in many cases, eats it.
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November 21, 2008
Anjan Chatterjee, MD was quoted in Marie Claire magazine commenting on the subject of the ethics behind the use of chemical cognitive enhancers.
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November 18, 2008
John A. Detre, MD and John Templeton, MD both appeared last night on the first episode of the Discovery Channel's new series, "Extreme Bodies". The episode explored the rare phenomenon of conjoined twins and featured the story of the Chappelle sisters from Reading, PA.

November 12, 2008
David Dinges, PhD, Chief of the Division of Sleep and Chronobiology, spoke with EarthSky.org for a podcast discussing a test to help NASA astronauts gauge fatigue and stress during long missions in space.
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November 11, 2008
The Washington Post looks into the successful treatment of people with severe depression using transcranial magnetic stimulation, or TMS, including two Penn patients, Steve Newman and Garrett Aguilar. John O’Reardon, MD, an associate professor of psychiatry who headed the Penn trial and treated Newman and Aguilar was interviewed in the article.
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November 4, 2008
George Woody, MD was quoted in articles by Reuters and HealthDay News (appearing in Washington Post, USNews.com, Forbes.com), noting that longer-term use of a drug that relieves withdrawal symptoms might help young people undergoing treatment for addiction to heroin or prescription painkillers like Oxycontin.
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November 2, 2008
Scott A. Mackler, MD, PhD appeared on CBS’s 60 Minutes in a story about a new technology which directly links the brain to a computer. Mackler, a neuroscientist and ALS patient, demonstrates how this “brain computer interface” has given him back the ability to communicate with others via a computer generated voice.
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October 31, 2008
Joshua Gold, PhD was a guest on ”The Leonard Lopate Show” on NPR (WNYC-FM 93.9 in New York) discussing what goes on in the mind of voters during a major decision-making time such as a presidential election.
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October 31, 2008
The Scientist looks back at the Penn researchers who found TAR DNA-binding protein 43 (TDP43) lurking in the protinaceous inclusions that spider through the neurons of many ALS patients, speaking with study investigators Virginia Lee, PhD, MBA, John Q. Trojanowski, MD, PhD, and Aaron Gitler, PhD.
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October 31, 2008
Like a kind of internal physiological writing on the wall, Alzheimer's disease-related markers and signatures seem to appear in the body even before someone develops dementia. An article in CAP Today looks at work led by Leslie Shaw, PhD and John Q. Trojanowski, MD at Penn’s Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) core laboratory.
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October 30, 2008
Main Line Today interviewed Kathryn Jedrziewski, PhD and Jason Karlawish, MD regarding age-related mental decline and the increased focus on cognitive well-being.
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October 30, 2008
John Q. Trojanowski, MD, PhD was quoted in a Main Line Today article about memory decline and its prevention.
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October 29, 2008
Edna Foa, PhD spoke with HealthDay News (posted by USNews.com) about a study which found that more than one in seven female Iraq and Afghanistan veterans seeking VA medical care reported experiencing sexual trauma during their service.
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October 28, 2008
Joshua Gold, PhD co-authored an Op-Ed piece in the New York Times, looking at research in neuroscience and psychology which suggests that most undecided voters may be smarter than you think.
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October 27, 2008
The Today Show visits Penn’s Institute on Aging to talk about ways to age well. The segment features 108 year old Willie Lassiter, a resident of the Penn Center for Rehabilitation and Care, and a panel of three outstanding active 90+ year olds, Franny, Hal and Julie – all volunteers serving as “normal controls” in IOA aging research – to talk about how they stay active and what they enjoy about being in their 90’s.
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October 24, 2008
Nature Biotechnology spoke with Clyde Markowitz, MD about two new cases of progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy in patients treated with Tysabri reported in July that have increased uncertainty over the multiple sclerosis drug's prospects.
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October 22, 2008
ABC 6 highlights that the FDA has now approved TMS, noting that it was tested in Philadelphia by researchers at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. John O’Reardon, MD said in clinical trials, the therapy has proven to work two- to three-times better than placebo.
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October 22, 2008
WebMD.com looks at an experimental diet drug that may prove to be twice as effective as currently available weight loss medications if results from an early study are confirmed. Thomas Wadden, PhD tells WebMD that the phase III study should help answer important questions about the safety of the experimental weight loss drug.
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October 21, 2008
The Wall Street Journal spoke with a Penn Behavioral Health patient about his treatment with TMS. "Joe", who suffered from severe depression since the 1980s, was enrolled in a TMS trial after trying a gamut of antidepressants. "It's the only thing that worked," Joe says. "Within six weeks, I was officially no longer depressed." Now he is off medication but returns for weekly TMS treatments.
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October 21, 2008
The Associated Press spoke with a Penn Behavioral Health patient, Steve Newman, about his experience with repeated bouts of depression and successful treatment with TMS treatment in NeuroStar study at the University of Pennsylvania in 2005. This article has been posted by more than 90 outlets including the Baltimore Sun, Newsday, and the San Francisco Chronicle.
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October 20, 2008
Steven E. Arnold, MD and Christopher M. Clark, MD spoke with the New York Times about studies suggesting that many Hispanics may have more risk factors for developing dementia than other groups, and a significant number appear to be getting Alzheimer’s earlier.
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October 20, 2008
Stacy Horn, MD was quoted in a USA Today article about the recently released James Patterson book, Against Medical Advice. Patterson's first non-fiction book looks at a child’s experience with the disabling medical condition Tourette's syndrome, as well as obsessive-compulsive disorder.
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October 17, 2008
John O’Reardon, MD spoke with the Philadelphia Business Journal about a TMS device approval based on studies conducted at Penn which found that the non-invasive, non-surgical treatment was effective and safe in treating people with depression that did not respond to other treatments. A Penn patient notes that, after 20 years of severe depression, he had given up hope, until this came along.
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October 15, 2008
Dr. Michael Selzer was elected President of the World Federation of Neurorehabilitation, the pre-eminent world wide organization dedicated to neurorehabilitation.  Dr. Selzer has also served as the Editor-in-Chief of their journal for the past several years and is the editor of the two-volume Textbook of Neural Repair and Rehabilitation.

October 15, 2008
Charles O'Brien, MD, PhD was quoted in an article in the Washington Times, regarding the development and basic neuroscience of addiction.
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October 10, 2008
The research of Doug Smith, MD on a biological interface that could link a patient's nervous system to an artificial limb that responds to thought appears on MSN.com Health&Fitness’s 9 Mind-Boggling Medical Technologies slide show.
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October 9, 2008
WHYY Radio notes that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved an alternative treatment for depression. The University of Pennsylvania is one of a handful of locations nationally where Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation is available as a treatment, outside of clinical trials. John O’Reardon, MD says the non-invasive therapy sends magnetic pulses through the scalp to stimulate nerve centers in the brain that aren’t working properly.
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October 9, 2008
An article on WebMD.com highlights that the first transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) device received FDA clearance October 8, 2008. Michael Thase, MD says he's seen meaningful benefit in patients he's treated - a benefit also seen in clinical trials.
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October 7, 2008
Daniel Langleben, MD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, spoke on St. Louis radio station KMOX's "Reality Check" show and discussed new brain imaging technology that may be able to tell when someone is lying, although it may not be ready for use in uncontrolled or incomparable settings (i.e. court cases).
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October 5, 2008
Reed Goldstein, PhD, psychologist at Hall-Mercer Community Mental Health Center at Pennsylvania Hospital, was quoted in Sunday's Philadelphia Inquirer on the increase in levels of anxiety among average Americans as the worries add up: Wall Street, the war, the election, the credit crunch and housing values.
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September 29, 2008
Helen Luu, social worker and team leader of the Southeast Asian Mental Health Program at Hall-Mercer Community Mental Health Center at Pennsylvania Hospital, is quoted in the Philadelphia Inquirer regarding gambling addiction among the Asian community, in light of the city’s plan to build a casino on the edge of Chinatown.
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September 28, 2008
In a Cleveland Plain Dealer article, Daniel Langleben, MD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, discusses the potential for utilization of fMRI scanners in lie detection.
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September 25, 2008
Scott Kasner, MD was quoted in an article from ScienceNews.org, regarding a Sept. 25th report by European researchers in the New England Journal of Medicine which notes that emergency room physicians can deliver clot-busting treatments to a wider range of stroke patients than previously thought.
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September 23, 2008
Anthony Rostain, MD, Professor of Psychiatry, discusses the characteristics and scientific research regarding adult ADD and ADHD in a segment on Univision’s Aqui y Ahora newsmagazine television show. Dr. Rostain’s patient, Jaime Montealegve, a Penn student, is also interviewed and speaks about his current treatment for ADD.
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September 23, 2008
Myrna Rosenfeld, MD, chief of Neuro-oncology, was featured on ABC’s Good Morning America commenting on the continuing controversy over whether or not cell phones cause cancer – particularly when it comes to children.
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September 19, 2008
The Associated Press reported that the University will devote $50 million from health system profits to neuroscience research. Vice provost for research Steve Fluharty says the university will hire five new professors and build a new neuroscience building as well as renovating existing facilities.
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September 15, 2008
A finding appearing in Biological Psychiatry offers more evidence that lack of sleep can lead to inflammation and disease. The increase in markers of inflammation after mild sleep deprivation shows how stressful even this more common sleep loss is, comments Amita Sehgal, PhD in Science News.
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September 8, 2008
Ruben Gur, PhD, Director of the Penn Brain Behavior Laboratory, discusses the role functional MRIs can play in examining behaviors such as deception with Advanced Imaging Magazine.
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September 5, 2008
Former HUP patient Candace Gantt visited the HUP Founders 5 nurses and staff to thank them for nursing her back to health following a traumatic brain injury 3 years ago, 6ABC reports. Nurse Donnamarie Schuele, BSN and Doug Smith, MD discuss her remarkable comeback. On Sunday, Candace raced a ½ Ironman triathlon to raise money for the Penn Center for Brain Injury and Repair.
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September 5, 2008
John Trojanowski, MD, PhD spoke with USA Today about the need for patients in the early and moderate stages of Alzheimer's to join clinical trials, noting that "only 4% of Alzheimer's patients are in clinical trials, and that is not going to give us enough of a patient population to study." Jason Karlawish, MD says that participating in an Alzheimer's trial can be more challenging because it requires two people: a patient and caregiver.
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September 4, 2008
Marc A. Dichter, MD, PhD wrote a letter to the editor of the New York Times about a frequently unrecognized, but eminently treatable, possible consequence of traumatic brain injury: post-traumatic epilepsy. He notes that professionals in the epilepsy care community have been very concerned that veterans with subtle post-traumatic epilepsy may “fall through the cracks” of medical care.
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September 2, 2008
A CBS 3 story recounts how former HUP Neurotrauma patient Candace Gantt was able to recover from severe brain trauma, following a traffic accident that nearly left the triathlete in a coma. James Schuster, MD discusses Candace's remarkable recovery process and Doug Smith, MD says Candace Gantt was able to correct the damage that occurred in the brain.
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September 2, 2008
Jason Karlawish, MD, associate director of the Penn Memory Center, talked with USA Today about symptoms of early Alzheimer’s disease – trouble with short-term memory and behavioral changes that can be so subtle they are missed for years.
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August 31, 2008
Eileen Maloney Wilensky, MSN, ACNP-BC, Director of Clinical Research in Neurosurgery, discusses with ABC6 how HUP is testing handheld scanning device, which uses infrared technology to detect brain trauma at the bedside.
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August 22, 2008
Minghong Ma, PhD, assistant professor of Neuroscience, is quoted in a Science News story about a new study describing how mice use specialized neurons at the tip of their nose to smell fear.
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August 19, 2008
In an article from Science News, David Dinges, PhD explains that Dopamine may naturally increase when a person is sleep-deprived as a way to counteract a revved-up drive to sleep. Sleep deprivation affects some people profoundly, impairing their ability to pay attention and lengthening their reaction times, Dinges says.
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August 17, 2008
Geoffrey K. Aguirre, MD, PhD discusses the utility of functional MRI scans in a Boston Globe article. When Aguirre looks at an fMRI image, he reminds himself that the picture is actually some "fancy statistics," and not an exact snapshot of brain activity. "It's important to ask what assumptions allowed the researchers to find these patterns of activity," he says.
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August 11, 2008
BusinessWeek looks at TauRx Therapeutics, a private company based in Singapore, which just reported that its drug Rember reduced mental decline by 81 percent over 12 months in a small Phase II trial. The results have yet to be published and need to be confirmed by a larger trial, but so far, the drug has outperformed high-profile Alzheimer's drugs made by larger companies and it works by going after a completely different target. John Q. Trojanowski, MD, PhD, Director of the Institute on Aging & Director of the Alzheimer's Disease Core Center, says that researchers must continue to pursue all targets, to eventually lead to 10 different drugs for Alzheimer's.
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August 7, 2008
Allan Pack, MD, PhD, David Raizen, MD, PhD, and Amita Sehgal, PhD were quoted in a News Focus article in Science about the use of classic genetic model organisms – fruit flies, zebrafish, and round worms -- to study sleep.
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July 28, 2008
Articles in USA Today and Forbes.com cite University of Pennsylvania research findings regarding the progression and detection of Alzheimer’s Disease. Christos Davatzikos, PhD described a new computer-based technique for analyzing MRI scans that may help scientists discover Alzheimer's-like brain changes earlier.
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July 27, 2008
Wade Berrettini, MD, PhD, was quoted in an article in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, regarding a study which found that teenagers may start smoking because of peer pressure, but they become addicted to nicotine in part because of their genes.
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July 18, 2008
The Philadelphia Inquirer profiled sleep research by Amita Sehgal, PhD. Researchers at Penn created fruit fly insomniacs by altering a gene they have dubbed "Sleepless." Allan Pack, MD, PhD was also quoted in the article.
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July 14, 2008
Daniel Weintraub, MD was quoted in the Chicago Tribune, regarding a recent study which found that more than 13 percent of patients taking a particular class of drug called dopamine agonists to treat Parkinson’s disease experienced dramatic changes in behavior, with some developing gambling problems, heightened sexual interest or compulsive spending and eating habits where there had previously been no sign of such disorders.
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July 7, 2008
Jason Karlawish, MD is quoted in two Alzforum.com articles discussing decisional capacity for people with Alzheimer’s Disease who have cognitive impairment. The first part looks at the challenges of enrolling patients into clinical trials for Alzheimer’s Disease and the need for clear guidelines on who is allowed to make decisions about research participation on behalf of adults whose disease prevents them from being able to do so themselves. The second part highlights a study by Dr. Karlawish, published in the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry earlier this year.
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July 7, 2008
In a Baltimore Sun article, posted by The Day, about a 3-D simulator in which soldiers see, hear and smell the rigors of combat to help ease war-induced stress, Edna Foa, PhD notes that more empirical evidence is needed to determine efficacy and account for cost of this type of exposure therapy. Foa, who works with PTSD patients - including soldiers - in both the U.S. and Israel, says the images in virtual therapy might be too generic to effectively elicit patients' own memories.
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June 26, 2008
John O’Reardon, MD spoke with WHYY and discussed how TMS - transcranial magnetic stimulation - delivers pulses to the brain to activate circuits that are not functioning properly in people with certain mood disorders, including depression. Penn researchers are investigating this technique, along with other techniques including DBS and VNS.
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June 25, 2008
Daniel Weintraub, MD spoke with HealthDay/Washington Post about a new study conducted by the Department of Psychiatry which found that people taking dopamine agonists to treat Parkinson's disease are three times more likely to have impulse-control disorders such as compulsive gambling, buying and sexual behavior. The study was presented at the Movement Disorder Society's 12th International Congress of Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders.
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June 17, 2008
Charles O’Brien, MD, PhD is quoted in a Washington Post article discussing new guidelines for "Helping Patients Who Drink Too Much” proposed by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, part of the National Institutes of Health.
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June 14, 2008
Eric Zager, MD and Doug Smith, MD appeared on ABC6’s news magazine Visions discussing the latest treatment and research for fixing damaged nerves. Dr. Zager talked about the current state of nerve injury repair in the context of one of his patients. Dr. Smith described his research with engineered human nerve constructs as a near-term way to help improve treatments.
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June 12, 2008
David Dinges, PhD discussed the role that sleep plays in psychiatric health on a rerun of a 60 Minutes segment aired earlier this year. He mentioned that a cumulative sleep debt affects how people react to situations such as driving.
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June 11, 2008
Caryn Lerman, PhD was on WHYY FM discussing her latest research which helps reveal why it is easier for some people to quit smoking than others. Dr. Lerman and colleagues discovered how to identify several novel gene variants that provide clues to the basic biology underlying nicotine dependence and the ability to cease smoking.
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June 5, 2008
Anjan Chatterjee, MD, Associate Professor of Neurology, comments in the New York Times about the neuroscience of humor.
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May 27, 2008
J. Russell Ramsay, PhD, associate director of the Penn's ADHD Adult Treatment and Research Program, is quoted in a Philadelphia Inquirer article discussing the association between elite male gymnasts and childhood hyperactivity.
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May 23, 2008
Research by David Dinges, PhD - which was published in the Journal of NeuroScience and found that being deprived of sleep, even for just one night, can it make the brain unstable and prone to sudden shutdowns - was cited by an additional 15 national and local outlets including The Osgood File, KCBS-TV in Los Angeles and WBZ-AM 1030 (CBS) Boston.
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May 21, 2008
Kevin D. Judy, MD, associate professor of Neurosurgery, was featured on both the 5 p.m. and 11 p.m. broadcasts of ABC6 TV news commenting on Senator Ted Kennedy’s diagnosis of a malignant glioma brain tumor.
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May 21, 2008
David Dinges, PhD is quoted in an article by Reuters and posted by 30 outlets including MSNBC.com and The Australian. Dr. Dinges discusses a study, published in the Journal of Neurology, in which researchers suggest that people who are sleep-deprived alternate between periods of near-normal brain function and dramatic lapses in attention and visual processing, making it clear how dangerous sleep deprivation can be while driving on the highway, when even a four-second lapse could lead to a major accident.
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May 14, 2008
Andrew Newberg, MD, assistant professor of Radiology, Nuclear Medicine, is mentioned in an Op-Ed article in The New York Times, “The Neural Buddhists” by David Brooks. In it he is credited for his imaging research which identifies and measures transcendent experiences experienced through meditation and repetitive prayer in the brain.
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May 14, 2008
John O’Reardon, MD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, appeared on WHYY's Voices in the Family program. Dr. O'Reardon discussed the standard treatments for depression as well as cutting-edge new methods.
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May 13, 2008
Dwight L. Evans, MD, chair of Psychiatry, is quoted in the U.K.’s The Independent, commenting on his study published in Biological Psychiatry which finds that antidepressant drugs may help the immune system fight serious illness.
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May 11, 2008
Aaron T. Beck, MD, professor of Psychiatry and 2006 Lasker Award recipient, was featured in Sunday’s Philadelphia Inquirer. Dr. Beck, who turns 87 in two months, is credited for founding “the burgeoning field of cognitive therapy" and shows no signs of slowing down his career. He continues to teach and has five books in the works.
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May 5, 2008
Wade H. Berrettini, MD, professor of psychiatry and genetics, is quoted in a New York Times article about the growing trend toward reclassifying diseases based on their genetic underpinnings.
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April 10, 2008
The Penn Current recently featured a special report on the Penn Medicine Neuroscience Center, highlighting research and clinical programs related to brain science.
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March 18 , 2008
David Dinges, PhD, Chief of the Division of Sleep and Chronobiology, Department of Psychiatry, appeared on 60 Minutes in a two-part segment delving into the science of sleep.
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March 11 , 2008
John Trojanowski, MD, PhD, Director Penn Institute in Aging, and Beth Wood, Genetic Counselor, Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research, comment in a Philadelphia Inquirer article about a new genetics test kit for Alzheimer’s disease risk.
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March 11 , 2008
Martha Farah, PhD, director of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, is quoted in a New York Times story about “brain doping” via prescription drugs used for wakefulness or to treat ADHD.
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March 6 , 2008
John O’Reardon, MD, associate professor of Psychiatry, was quoted in a story that aired on the San Francisco NBC news affiliate about the use of transcranial magnetic stimulation as a treatment for drug-resistant depression.
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March 5 , 2008
The Lancet Neurology recently published a book review of Deep Brain Stimulation for Parkinson's Disease, a new text by Gordon Baltuch, MD and Matthew Stern, MD.

March 3 , 2008
Gregory K. Brown, PhD is quoted in a New York Times article about the role blogs may have played in the suicide of a Chicago advertising executive.
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March 3 , 2008
Helen Luu, MSW, was interviewed on WHYY Radio’s Morning Edition about the stigma around mental health and depression in the Asian community.
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February 29 , 2008
Virginia Lee, PhD, Professor of Pathology and Lab Medicine and Co-Director of the Marian S. Ware Center for Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Program, comments in a HealthDay News service article announcing the identification of a new gene for Lou Gehrig’s disease.
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February 29 , 2008
Douglas H. Smith, MD, Professor of Neurosurgery and Director of the Center for Brain Injury and Repair, is quoted in a United Press International article regarding his recent research published in the Journal of Neurosurgery. Smith and colleagues created a three-dimensional neural network – a cultured mini-nervous system. 
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February 10 , 2008
A paper by Charles O’Brien, MD, PhD, is mentioned in a New York Times article about evaluating the suicide risk in a variety of medicines.
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February 7 , 2008
John Trojanowski, MD, PhD, and Virginia Lee, PhD, are quoted in an article in the Daily Pennsylvanian about neurodegenerative disease research at Penn.
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February 4 , 2008
Research conducted by Max Kelz, MD, PhD, assistant professor in Penn’s Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, was highlighted in Science.

January 31 , 2008
Anna Rose Childress, PhD, appears in a HealthDay News service article about a NIDA-funded, Penn-led study that found that cocaine-related images can trigger the brain's emotional centers in drug addicts, even if they're unaware that they've actually seen such an image.
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January 17 , 2008
David Dinges, PhD, Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry, discusses sleeping patterns on NPR.
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January 14 , 2008
The recent research of David M. Raizen, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Neurology, and the Penn Sleep Center, about how the humble roundworm – C. elegans – is the perfect model to identify a gene that regulates sleep, was picked up by U.S. News & World Report on-line.
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January 7, 2008
The FOX News affiliate in Birmingham, Alabama and United Press International reported on research conducted by John Detre, MD and Caryn Lerman, PhD. Using MRI, they identified a brain activation that creates the nicotine craving and the continuing need to smoke.
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January 7 , 2008
Sean Grady, MD is quoted in an Associated Press article about a series of mistakes that led to three wrong-side brain surgeries at Rhode Island Hospital.
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January 7 , 2008
The Washington, D.C. NBC News affiliate reported on the research of John O’Reardon, MD highlighting his work with Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) to treat depression.

 

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