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2011 News Archives
December 22, 2011
A new measurement tool can identify cognitively normal adults who are at high risk for cognitive decline, according to a new study by collaborators at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard Medical School, co-authored by David Wolk, MD, Assistant Professor of Neurology and Assistant Director of the Penn Memory Center.
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December 21, 2011
The Raymond and Ruth Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania announces the establishment of the Neuroscience of Behavior Initiative. This new initiative, funded by an anonymous gift, will strengthen Penn programs in basic, translational, clinical, and population research into the areas of addiction, depressive disorders, and neurodegenerative disease.
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December 21, 2011
Allan I. Pack, MBChB, PhD, chief, Division of Sleep Medicine and director, Center for Sleep and Circadian Neurobiology, and Michael A. Grandner, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Sleep and Circadian Neurobiology, contributed editorial comment on a new study about police officers and sleep deprivation, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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December 21, 2011
WHYY reports about a new program at the Penn Memory Center that teaches older adults ways to work around their memory problems.
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December 21, 2011
Medscape Medical News reports on a new study, led by Daniel Weintraub, MD, which shows that the same brain regions that undergo atrophy in Alzheimer's disease are also seen in cognitive decline related to Parkinson's disease (PD).
December 20, 2011
Research led by David Mandell, Sc.D., associate professor in Psychiatry and Pediatrics, was discussed in a Los Angeles Times article looking at adults with undiagnosed autism.
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December 19, 2011
Local NPR affiliate WHYY Newsradio interviewed Martin Franklin, PhD, director of the Child/Adolescent OCD, Tics, Trichotillomania and Anxiety Group at Penn, to learn the medical facts behind Tourette’s syndrome.
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December 19, 2011
Douglas H. Smith, MD, professor of Neurosurgery and director of the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Brain Injury and Repair, spoke with the Philadelphia Inquirer about concussions and the risk of head injury that hockey players face.
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December 13, 2011
Research by David Dinges, PhD, Chief of the Division of Sleep and Chronobiology, was discussed in a Scienceline.com article about drowsiness detection technologies in cars.
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December 13, 2011
Researchers, led by Daniel Weintraub, MD, say they've spotted brain abnormalities that may be linked to dementia in people with Parkinson's disease, HealthDay news syndicate reports. Coverage of the study, which was published in the journal Archives of Neurology, also appeared in US News and World Report, Doctor's Lounge, iVillage.com and Health.com.
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December 13, 2011
Steven Berkowitz, MD, director, Penn Center for Youth and Family Trauma Response and Recovery, spoke with the Philadelphia Inquirer about the impact court proceedings may have on abuse victims.
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December 13, 2011
An MRI scan that detects atrophy patterns in the brains of Alzheimer's patients also can detect cognitive decline in Parkinson's patients, McKnight's Long Term Care News reports. The study, which was led by Daniel Weintraub, MD, was published online in the journal Brain.
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December 9, 2011
Michael E. Thase, MD, professor of Psychiatry, spoke with Reuters Health about patient response to antidepressant use.
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December 5, 2011
ScienceWatch.com, a science metrics and analysis group, interviewed Virginia Lee, PhD, director of the Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research, and John Trojanowski, MD, PhD, director of the Institute on Aging, for their Special Topics analysis of Alzheimer's Disease research over the past decade.
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December 2, 2011
In an interview with WHYY Newsworks, C. Neill Epperson, MD, director, Penn Center for Women's Behavioral Wellness, talks about depression treatment during pregnancy.
December 2, 2011
The New York Times Magazine reports that scientists at Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute and at the University of Pennsylvania, including Soojin Park, MD, began the first large-scale clinical study of zolpidem as a treatment for disorders of consciousness.
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December 1, 2011
A Penn Neurosurgery patient was interviewed by the Pocono Record about the effects of his Deep Brain Stimulation procedure, performed by Gordon H. Baltuch, MD, PhD, professor of Neurosurgery and director of the Center for Functional and Restorative Neurosurgery.
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November 28, 2011
University of Pennsylvania researchers, led by John A. Detre, MD, have used a new brain-imaging technique in a way that could improve the diagnosis and monitoring of Alzheimer's disease.
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November 21, 2011
Neurology Today reports on research regarding ALS progression by John Trojanowski, MD, PhD, co-director of the Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research, and Virginia Lee, PhD.
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November 21, 2011
Glen Gaulton, PhD, executive vice dean and chief scientific officer at Perelman School of Medicine, spoke to the Philadelphia Inquirer about
increasing funding for research into brain disorders and bipartisan support for a more coordinated approach to federal funding of neuroscience.
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November 21, 2011
David Dinges, PhD, chief of Sleep and Chronobiology at the University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine, discussed the ability to change one's circadian clock in a New York Times article about becoming a morning person.
November 18, 2011
Researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine, including John Detre, MD, found a new way of diagnosing and tracking Alzheimer's disease, using an innovative magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technique called Arterial spin labeling (ASL) to measure changes in brain function.
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November 18, 2011
Researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine discovered additional human genes that might contribute to the universally fatal neurodegenerative diseas, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), or Lou Gehrig's disease.
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November 18, 2011
Wall Street Journal's Health Blog mentions work by Chris Pierce, PhD, associate professor of Neuroscience in Psychiatry, which is the first to show that the chemical effects of cocaine abuse can reach across succeeding generations to cause a beneficial change, by altering how genes are controlled without actually changing the genes themselves.
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November 17, 2011
Nabila Dahodwala, MD, assistant professor of Neurology and physician at the Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders Center, talks about essential tremors, in the Philadelphia Corporation for Aging's Milestones newspaper.
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November 17, 2011
MSNBC.com reports that two new Penn studies, co-authored by John Detre, MD, looked at an MRI method that can cheaply and accurately detect changes in the brain that are associated with Alzheimer’s disease.
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November 16, 2011
In an Oprah.com article, Richard Summers, MD, clinical associate professor of Psychiatry, talks about coping.
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November 14, 2011
ScienceCodex reports that researchers, including Brian Litt, MD, have developed a flexible brain implant that could one day be used to treat epileptic seizures.
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November 14, 2011
H. Branch Coslett, MD, interim chair of Neurology, was quoted in a Philadelphia Inquirer article describing how age, fatigue, and stress can all contribute to "senior moments".
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November 10, 2011
Bellweather magazine reports on epilepsy research performed by Charles Vite, PhD, from Penn Vet, Penn Medicine neurologists Kathryn A. Davis, MD, instructor of Neurology and Brian Litt, MD, associate professor of Neurology and Bioengineering.
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October 31, 2011
Richard Doty, PhD, director of the Smell and Taste Center at Penn, was quoted in a Philadelphia Inquirer article about new research on olfaction, which shows that smell involves the brain as much as the nose, and, like the rest of the brain, the system is constantly adapting.
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October 25, 2011
The Philadelphia Inquirer reports on a study published this month in the Archives of General Psychiatry, in which a team co-led by Paul M. Grant, PhD and supervised by Aaron T Beck, MD, reported that cognitive therapy helped schizophrenic patients.
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October 17, 2011
Philip Gehrman, PhD, CBSM,
clinical director of the Behavioral Sleep Medicine program, spoke with Oprah.com about ways to synchronize our body clock to the earth's 24-hour cycle, using external cues to help combat against the biological factors that make us feel tired and sluggish in the morning.
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October 17, 2011
Richard Doty, PhD, director of the Smell and Taste Center at Penn, tells the Toronto Star that there isn’t hard science behind the theory that human pheromones attract members of the opposite sex.
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October 13, 2011
AlzForum reports on new Parkinson's disease research from the laboratory of Virginia Lee, PhD, director of the Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research.
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Three labs at the Perelman School of Medicine have come together using electrophysiological, anatomical, and immunohistochemical approaches to understand how schizophrenia works at the cellular level. The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reported on the findings of this study, which was led by Gregory Carlson, PhD.
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October 6, 2011
Discover Magazine's science blog "Not Exactly Rocket Science" mentions research published in Neuron from the Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research, about how small amounts of misshapened brain proteins in Parkinson's disease can be taken up by healthy neurons and replicated within them to cause neurodegeneration. Laura Volpicelli-Daley, PhD and Virginia Lee, PhD were both mentioned in the blog.
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October 5, 2011
A study by Penn researchers, including Aaron T. Beck, MD and Paul M. Grant, PhD, found that people with severe schizophrenia who have been isolated, withdrawn and considered beyond help can learn to become more active, social and employable by engaging in a type of talk therapy that was invented to treat depression, the New York Times reports.
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October 1, 2011
New research from the Perelman School of Medicine, led by Roderic Eckenhoff, MD,
adds to the growing evidence that anesthesia and surgery may be associated with the progression of chronic brain diseases, particularly Alzheimer's disease.
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September 28, 2011
John Duda, MD, assistant professor of Neurology, was quoted in a HealthDay news syndicate report regarding the depiction of movement disorders on YouTube.
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September 28, 2011
Deborah Kim, MD, director of the Perinatal Program at Penn Center for Women's Behavioral Wellness, joined ABC News Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Richard Besser for a twitter chat focused on post-partum depression.
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September 26, 2011
Philadelphia Magazine reported on concussion research, led by Steven Galetta, MD and Laura Balcer, MD, MSCE, two Penn neuro-ophthalmologists testing the King-Devick test.
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September 21, 2011
Reuters Health reported on a study appearing in the Journal of the American Medical Association, led by Martin Franklin, PhD, which found that adding cognitive-behavior therapy to maintenance treatment with SSRIs can significantly improve symptoms of OCD in children and adolescents. MedPage Today, HealthDay and Medscape also covered the study.
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September 19, 2011
The Philadelphia Business Journal mentions that the Alzheimer’s Disease Core Center, under the direction of John Trojanowksi, MD, PhD, has received a $7.5 million renewal grant from the National Institutes of Health.
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September 19, 2011
The Philadelphia Inquirer reports on an epigenetics study led by Tracy L. Bale, PhD, which shows that maternal stress during pregnancy may have negative consequences on not only the fetus but also the fetus' children.
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September 7, 2011
The works of Steven Berkowitz, MD and Edna Foa, PhD were cited in a WHYY Radio/NPR report about the progress made towards understanding Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder after 9/11.
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September 6, 2011
In Psychology Today, James Coyne, PhD examines evidence claiming that 'virtual trauma' from watching media coverage of 9/11 could elicit posttraumatic stress reactions and persist in the absence of a direct exposure to events.
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September 2, 2011
MomsTeam.com reports on a new study by Penn researchers confirming the value of the King-Devick Test in sideline assessment of concussions.
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August 31, 2011
A new study, led by Jonathan Peelle, PhD, research associate in the Department of Neurology, shows that mild hearing loss may be linked to brain atrophy in older adults.
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August 29, 2011
Michelle Smith, MD, assistant professor of Neurosurgery,
discussed brain AVMs in a Philly Sports Daily report.
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August 22, 2011
James Schuster, MD, PhD, associate professor of Neurosurgery, and Eileen Maloney-Wilensky, MSN, ACNP-BC, director of the Neurosurgery Clinical Research Division, were interviewed by 6ABC and WHYY/NPR about a former patient who survived a traumatic brain injury.
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August 15, 2011
James Coyne, PhD, a professor of Psychology in Psychiatry, is quoted in a Philadelphia Inquirer article about the concept of "the positive side of trauma and grief".
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August 8, 2011
Aaron T. Beck, MD, emeritus professor of Psychiatry and director of the Aaron T. Beck Psychopathology Research Center, is featured in a column by Art Carey in The Philadelphia Inquirer.
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August 8, 2011
Charles P. O'Brien, MD, PhD, professor and vice-chair of Psychiatry and the director of the Center for Studies in Addiction, was interviewed extensively for Time.com’s “Healthland” blog regarding alcoholism, withdrawal and detox.
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August 5, 2011
In an interview with the Huffington Post, Mahendra Bhati, MD, assistant professor of Clinical Psychiatry, commented on antidepressant use among undiagnosed Americans.
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August 3, 2011
Steven Berkowitz, MD was interviewed in an MSNBC.com article about a new study showing that a medication commonly used to treat post-traumatic stress disorder in combat veterans may not be effective in reducing overall PTSD severity.
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July 28, 2011
A new study, conducted by a team of researchers including Wade Berrettini, MD, PhD, provides additional support for the genetic basis of eating disorders.
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July 28, 2011
Mahendra Bhati, MD, assistant professor of Clinical Psychiatry was interviewed in an NBC10 report about animal hoarding.
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July 28, 2011
WHYY Radio followed one Penn patient's battle with treatment-resistent depression. The patient was part of a Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) trial, led by John O'Reardon, MD, associate professor of Psychiatry, with Gordon Baltuch, MD, professor of Neurosurgery and Mahendra Bhati, MD, assistant professor of Clinical Psychiatry.
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July 28, 2011
Tom McLellan, PhD, professor in Psychiatry and director of the Penn Center for Substance Abuse Solutions, was quoted in a Drugfree.org article about Medicaid acceptance in publicly funded facilities that deliver substance use disorder treatment.
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July 27, 2011
Steven Galetta, MD, professor of Neurology, speaks with 6ABC about a controversial multiple sclerosis vascular treatment.
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July 25, 2011
The Philadelphia Inquirer reports on research, led by Douglas H. Smith, MD, which found that people who sustain a single traumatic brain injury are more likely to develop Alzheimer's-like symptoms later in life.
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July 19, 2011
For the 4th consecutive year, the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP) has been ranked among the top 10 hospitals in the nation by U.S.News & World Report, this year ranking 10th out of 17 honoree institutions and nearly 5,000 hospitals nationwide. HUP ranked in the top 20 across 15 of the 16 medical specialties evaluated, Neurology and Neurosurgery (14), and Psychiatry (12) .
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July 19, 2011
Aaron Beck, MD, professor emeritus of Psychiatry, who is widely regarded as the father of cognitive therapy, turns 90 this summer. Psychiatric News uses the occasion to take a look at the man and his career.
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July 19, 2011
Steven Berkowitz, MD, director of Penn's Center for Youth and Family Trauma Response and Recovery, explains to the Philadelphia Inquirer that the instinct to help, even in the face of danger, could be a genetic predisposition.
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July 19, 2011
Michael Perlis, PhD, director of the Behavioral Sleep Medicine Program, discusses insomnia and "sleep hygiene" with the Wall Street Journal.
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July 18, 2011
Alice Chen-Plotkin, MD, assistant professor of Neurology, is featured in an Ivanhoe story that ran on ABC 7 in New York City, discussing a new test to determine which Parkinson's patients are at greatest risk for developing dementia.
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July 18, 2011
Douglas Smith, MD, professor of neurosurgery and director of the Center for Brain Injury and Repair, was interviewed in a USA Today story reporting that
traumatic brain injury (TBI) can increase the risk of dementia.
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July 13, 2011
WebMD.com and HealthDay reported on a study led by David Wolk, MD, which found
that PET scans may help detect the plaques in the brain associated with Alzheimer's disease.
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July 12, 2011
The Wall Street Journal highlights a study led by Daniel Weintraub, MD, which shows that, despite warnings about the risks of using antipsychotics to treat older, demented patients, the powerful drugs are routinely prescribed to elderly people with Parkinson's disease. HealthDay via US News, and WebMD.com also covered the story.
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July 12, 2011
Michael Grandner, PhD, of the Center for Sleep and Respiratory Neurobiology, spoke with
Reuters Health about the link between sleep and weight.
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July 12, 2011
The Biotech Strategy Blog reported on research by the laboratory of D. Kacy Cullen, PhD, regarding the development of a nerve tissue/electrical interface that potentially allows the integration of man and machine.
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July 12, 2011
Charles P. O’Brien, MD, PhD, professor of Psychiatry, was quoted in an Medscape article about a study showing that gabapentin may help treat alcohol dependence.
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July 12, 2011
Woman's Day interviewed David Wolk, MD, assistant professor of Neurology at the Penn Memory Center, about memory loss and
early-onset Alzheimer’s.
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July 6, 2011
The New York Times reports on a new study about contextual memory appearing in the journal PNAS. The study was led by doctors from the University of Pennsylvania and Vanderbilt University, including Gordon Baltuch, MD, PhD, Brian Litt, MD, and Jeremy R. Manning, PhD candidate in Neuroscience.
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June 28, 2011
In continuing coverage, Alzforum ran an article on a new genetic study led by Gerard Schellenberg, PhD, which looks at the genetic variations that contribute to risk and pathology of a rare neurodegenerative disease called Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP), a form of frontotemporal dementia.
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June 28, 2011
Steven Berkowitz, MD, associate professor of Clinical Psychiatry and director of the Penn Center for Youth and Family Trauma Response and Recovery, was a featured expert on a WHYY/NPR Radio segment discussing the effects of violence on children.
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June 24, 2011
Marcos Frank, PhD, associate professor of neuroscience, commented in a Science News article about the role sleep plays in learning and memory.
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June 22, 2011
There are new genetic clues on risk factors and biological causes of a rare neurodegenerative disease called progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), according to a study from an international genetics team led by Gerard Schellenberg, PhD.
Dr. Schellenberg discussed these findings with WHAM-CW in Rochester, NY and on Sirius/XM's "Doctor Radio."
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June 21, 2011
A. Thomas McLellan, PhD, director of the Center for Substance Abuse Solutions in Psychiatry, was featured on the CBS Early Show, speaking about the "war on drugs." Dr. McLellan also discussed drug policy with WHYY's "Radio Times".
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June 20, 2011
Michael Thase, MD commented in a Medscape article on research from the Systematic Treatment Enhancement Program for BD (STEP-BD) study, which found that the number of depressive or manic episodes experienced by patients with bipolar disorder (BD) predicts illness severity.
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June 20, 2011
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Perelman School of Medicine study was mentioned in
a Yahoo News article about Parkinson's disease research.
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June 14, 2011
The Chronicle of Higher Education profiles Adrian Raine, DPhil, professor of Criminology, Psychiatry, and Psychology, who has spent a career trying to spot ever-earlier signs of dangerous minds—clues to bad behavior even before a criminal commits a crime.
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June 14, 2011
James Coyne, PhD, a professor of Psychology in Psychiatry and director of the Behavioral Oncology Program, is quoted in a Los Angeles Times article about the role a patient's outlook plays during cancer treatment.
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June 14, 2011
A. Thomas McLellan, PhD, director of the Penn Center for Substance Abuse Solutions, was interviewed by the New York Times in an article profiling Dr. Nora D. Volkow, the neuroscientist in charge of the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
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June 14, 2011
C. Neill Epperson, MD,
associate professor of psychiatry and obstetrics and gynecology and director of the Penn Center for Women’s Behavioral Wellness, discusses the value of daycare as a means of curbbing behavioral issues in an MSNBC.com report.
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June 9, 2011
A. Thomas McLellan, PhD, professor in Psychiatry, was interviewed about the drug policy yesterday on NPR's "On Point with Tom Ashbrook."
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June 9, 2011
John O'Reardon, MD was quoted in a Philadelphia Inquirer report about Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS), a magnetic pulse treatment used to reduce depression with few apparent side effects.
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June 9, 2011
Cell Metabolism reported on a study, led by Amita Sehgal, PhD, John Herr Musser Professor of Neurosciene and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, which found that eating at the wrong time of day, reduces fertility in fruit flies.
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June 7, 2011
D. Kacy Cullen, PhD was interviewed by KYW Radio about the "signature injury" of veterans returning from Afghanistan, traumatic brain injury (“TBI”). Cullen explains that the prevalence of the injury is a combination of the increased use of blasts as a weapon and better body armor, which increases survival of those blasts but leaves a unique trauma.
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June 7, 2011
KYW Radio spoke with Edna Foa, PhD about Prolonged Exposure Therapy as a treatment for veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
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May 26, 2011
Martin Franklin, MD was interviewed in an ABCNews.com report about trichotillomania, a psychological disorder that causes people to pull out hair from their head and other parts of the body to the extent that it causes patches of baldness.
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May 26, 2011
D. Kacy Cullen, PhD and his work with traumatic brain injury were mentioned in the CUNY Newswire, which carried a story about students in the City University of New York's Journalism School’s Health & Science Reporting Program who traveled to Philadelphia to attend the annual meeting of the Association of Health Care Journalists.
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May 25, 2011
In a 6ABC story, Matthew Stern, MD, professor of Neurology and director of the Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders Center, discusses symptoms associated with Parkinson's disease.
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May 25, 2011
Philip Gehrman, PhD, CBSM, clinical director of the Behavioral Sleep Medicine program, discusses
circadian rhythm in a Palm Beach Post article about the FAA's campaign to prevent
air traffic controllers from falling asleep on the job.
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May 25, 2011
The Daily Pennsylvanian reports that the Department of Neurology will gain Salim Chahin as their newest postdoctoral fellow in the Multiple Sclerosis Program - along with his quarter of a million dollar research grant.
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May 23, 2011
Charles P. O'Brien, MD, PhD was interviewed by the Los Angeles Times regarding the addition of "hypersexual disorder" and other addictions to the upcoming edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, called DSM-5, scheduled to be published in 2013.
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May 23, 2011
Anjan Chatterjee, MD spoke with the Los Angeles Times in a report about people with migraines, autism, epilepsy and Alzheimer’s who are producing award-winning, acclaimed artwork. Some artists are experiencing profound changes to their artwork resulting from their change in health, shedding new light on how biology influences creativity.
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May 19, 2011
The Philadelphia Business Journal highlights 40 of the area's local leaders under 40 years old, including Joshua Levine, MD, co-director of the Neurocritical Care program and assistant professor in Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Anesthesiology and Critical Care, who established a fellowship program to train the next generation of neurointensivists.
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May 18, 2011
David Mandell, ScD spoke to WebMD.com regarding a recent study showing that having a child with autism adversely affects family employment and income. Coverage of the research also appeared in HealthDay and Medscape.
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May 18, 2011
The LA Times reports on a new study led by Psychiatry resident Laurie B. Gray, MD, which shows that after a normal and expected period of bereavement, most children recover from their grief after losing a parent.
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May 17, 2011
A study led by Caryn Lerman, PhD, which identified a mechanism that explains why people with a particular genetic background may be more prone to relapse when they try to quit smoking was highlighted by Time.com, WebMD, Cosmos magazine, and by CBS News affiliates in cities around the nation.
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May 10, 2011
A. Thomas McLellan, PhD, director of the Center for Substance Abuse Solutions, spoke with Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly regarding substance abuse recovery services.
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May 6, 2011
Scott Kasner, MD, director of the Stroke Center and associate professor of Neurology, is interviewed in Cardiac Interventions Today, discussing his perspective on how cryptogenic stroke patients should be approached.
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May 5, 2011
Co-director of the Penn Medicine Neuroscience Center Amita Sehgal, PhD has been elected to the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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May 3, 2011
Steven Berkowitz, MD, an associate professor of clinical Psychiatry who has extensively studied managing fear and psychological recovery from terrorism and disasters, was interviewed by the Philadelphia Inquirer and MSNBC.com regarding psychological reactions to Bin Laden's death.
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May 2, 2011
Associate Professor of Neurosurgery, Donald O'Rourke, MD, spoke with
WHYY Radio/NPR about brain tumor detection.
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April 29, 2011
Anjan Chatterjee, MD, professor of neurology, was interviewed by MSNBC.com about
a new survey of patients' medical records which found that nearly a quarter of adults who seek treatment for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder may be exaggerating or faking their symptoms.
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April 27, 2011
Gerard Schellenberg, PhD, geneticist and professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, talks with WHYY's Radio Times about new guidelines and recent advances in the diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer's disease.
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April 27, 2011
John A. Wolf, PhD, postdoctoral fellow in the department of Neurosurgery and the Center for Brain Injury and Repair recently published an article on ScienceProgress.org about the new field of optogenetics.
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April 26, 2011
Thomas McLellan, PhD, formerly the No. 2 White House drug policy official and now director of the Center for Substance Abuse Solutions at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine was interviewed by the Philadelphia Inquirer, regarding the national campaign against the abuse of prescription drugs.
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April 26, 2011
Biotechnology Strategy reports that Kacy Cullen, PhD, from the Center for Brain Injury and Repair, presented research on blast-induced traumatic brain injury (bTBI) and the development of a nanomaterial containing photonic crystals that change color upon exposure to blast pressure at the recent Association of Health Care Journalists (AHCJ) annual meeting.
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April 25, 2011
The Daily Pennsylvanian reports on research findings by psychology professor David Dinges, PhD, recommending nine hours of sleep each night for the average healthy person.
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April 21, 2011
Gerard D. Schellenberg, PhD spoke to American Medical News about the discovery of five genes linked to Alzheimer's disease which offer scientists insight into what causes the condition and advances efforts to treat and eventually prevent the diseases.
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April 21, 2011
Beth McCarty Wood, genetic counselor with the Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research, commented on WHYY Radio/NPR about recent updates to the
national guidelines for diagnosing Alzheimer's disease.
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April 20, 2011
John Y. K. Lee, MD, assistant professor of Neurosurgery and medical director of the Penn Gamma Knife at Pennsylvania Hospital, was quoted in an article from The Daily Pennsylvanian covering Penn's use of new 3D technology for complex neurosurgical procedures.
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April 20, 2011
Penn’s Smell and Taste Center is cited in an article in the New York Times about smell disorders.
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April 20, 2011
In a special article written for the Philadelphia Inquirer, Anita Gupta, DO, PharmD, assistant professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, details the ins and outs of pain management for doctors and patients.
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April 19, 2011
Douglas Smith, MD, professor of Neurosurgery and director of the Center for Brain Injury and Repair, is interviewed by Reader's Digest magazine, discussing what happens after a blow to the head.
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April 19, 2011
Penn Neurosurgery and Neuro-ICU patient Candace Gantt is featured on 6ABC. Six years after a traumatic brain injury, Gantt is back in action and completed the Boston Marathon.
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April 19, 2011
Michael Perlis, PhD, director of the Behavioral Sleep Medicine Program, is featured in a Real Simple magazine article about how to sleep well.
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April 18, 2011
Anjan Chatterjee, MD, professor of Neurology, was quoted in a New York Times article about the psychology of cheating.
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April 18, 2011
The work of David Dinges, PhD, head of the Sleep and Chronobiology Laboratory and professor of Psychiatry, was featured in a New York Times Magazine article about the effects of sleep deprivation.
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April 18, 2011
Phil Gehrman, PhD, CBSM, clinical director of Behavioral Sleep Medicine in Psychiatry, appeared on ABC's Good Morning America and World News Tonight segments about issues surrounding sleepy air traffic controllers.
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April 15, 2011
Steven Arnold, MD, director of the Penn Memory Center, was interviewed in a Philadelphia Inquirer report about the FDA's review of the association between cholesterol-lowering statins and memory loss.
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April 13, 2011
Anthony Rostain, MD, MA, director of the office of education and associate professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics is quoted in a Health.com report on the challenge for the approximately 10 million U.S. adults with ADHD to maintain focus.
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April 11, 2011
Gerard Schellenberg, PhD, professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, is featured on NPR's Science Friday, discussing new research identifying additional genetic risk factors for Alzheimer's disease.
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April 6, 2011
Two JAMA reports, co-authored by Thomas McLellan, PhD, director of the new Center for Substance Abuse Solutions,
show a drastic shift in prescribing patterns impacting the magnitude of opioid substance abuse in America.
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April 6, 2011
Brian Litt, MD, PhD, associate professor of neurology and bioengineering, comments in Technology Review about new technologies to study brain processes at the single-cell level.
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April 4, 2011
Edna Foa, PhD, director of the Center for the Treatment and Study of Anxiety, is quoted in an Austin-American Statesman article about a new eye track test for PTSD.
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April 4, 2011
Gerard D. Schellenberg, PhD, professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, was mentioned in several news outlets, including the New York Times, USA Today, CNN blog The Chart, HealthDay, and the Miami Herald, for his contributions in Alzheimer's gene research.
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April 1, 2011
Fox 29 interviewed research scientists John Trojanowski, MD, PhD, and Virginia Lee, PhD, MBA, co-directors of the Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research (CNDR), about
Alzheimer's and it's effects on people's lives. They also discussed CNDR's novel drug development program.
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March 30, 2011
U.S. News & World Report has ranked the top regional hospitals in 52 U.S. metro areas with populations of one million or more. In the Philadelphia metropolitan area, HUP came out on top with Pennsylvania Hospital tied for number five on the list with Hanhemann University Hospital, and Penn Presbyterian Medical Center at number 12, reported 6ABC and Fox Good Day.
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March 29, 2011
A. Thomas McLellan, director of the Center for Substance Abuse Solutions in Psychiatry, is interviewed by MSNBC.com for an article about "Drugs to Mugs," a documentary by law enforcement officials to show teens a collection of faces before people were ravaged by meth, heroin and/or cocaine, along with the after-effects of the drugs.
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March 28, 2011
By combining sophisticated mathematical techniques with the power and versatility of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), Geoffrey K. Aguirre, MD, Assistant Professor of Neurology, has developed a new approach for studying the inner workings of the brain.
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March 24, 2011
In a featured online video on ABCNews.com, Richard Doty, PhD, director of Penn's Smell and Taste Center, discusses how head trauma can affect a person's sense of smell and taste. Dr. Doty also appeared in an NBC10 story about pheromones in perfumes.
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March 22, 2011
Gerard Schellenberg, PhD, professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, is quoted in Nature Biotechnology's coverage of the International Genomics of Alzheimer's Project, a comparison of genomic data of 20,000 individuals with 30,000 controls.
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March 22, 2011
Johnny O'Reardon, MD, associate professor of Psychiatry and director of Penn Medicine's TMS Treatment Program appeared on a FOX affiliate in Austin, Texas report about transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS).
March 18, 2011
David Dinges, PhD, chief of the Division of Sleep and Chronobiology and editor of the journal SLEEP, was interviewed in a WebMD.com article about the effect of sleep deprivation on the brain.
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March 18, 2011
According to a WebMD article, an expert panel led by
Robert W. Hurst, MD advised the FDA to approve a new device to treat recurrent glioblastoma, an aggressive, highly fatal type of brain tumor.
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March 18, 2011
C. Neill Epperson, MD, director of Women's Behavioral Wellness in Psychiatry, was quoted in a Reuters Health article which reported that an ADHD medication may improve subjective attention and reduce memory difficulties in perimenopausal and postmenopausal women.
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March 18, 2011
Grant Liu, MD, neuro-ophthalmologist and professor of Neurology, discussed arachnoid cysts in Philadelphia Inquirer article.
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March 17, 2011
John Y. K. Lee, MD, assistant professor of Neurosurgery and medical director of the Penn Gamma Knife Center at Pennsylvania Hospital was interviewed about the use of 3D technology in the operating room.
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March 17, 2011
Andrew D. A. Maidment, PhD, FAAPM, associate professor of Radiology and chief, Physics Section, department of Radiology, was interviewed in an article on MSNBC.com about the effects of radiation exposure.
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March 15, 2011
For the second consecutive year, the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine ranks #2 among research-oriented medical schools in the United States, according to U.S.News & World Report’s annual survey.
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March 15, 2011
Steven Berkowitz, MD, director of the Penn Center for Youth and Family Trauma Response and Recovery, is interviewed by 6ABC about the psychological impact of the devastation in Japan.
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March 14, 2011
Minghong Ma, PhD, an associate professor of Neuroscience, led a study published in a recent issue of the Journal of Neuroscience, which found that
mouse nose nerve cells mature after birth, allowing bonding and recognition with the mother.
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March 11, 2011
Phil Gehrman, PhD, CBSM, clinical director of Penn Medicine's Behavioral Sleep Medicine program, was interviewed by ABCNews.com about the effects of daylight saving time on sleep.
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March 9, 2011
Mathias Basner, MD, MS, MSc, assistant professor of Sleep and Chronobiology in Psychiatry, was quoted in a Wired Magazine article about brain activity during sleep.
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March 9, 2011
The Philadelphia Inquirer mentions that the Center for Brain Injury and Repair and Wade Berrettini, MD, PhD, director of Penn's Center for Neurobiology and Behavior, will be participating in the upcoming Philadelphia Science Festival.
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March 7, 2011
An article in the Philadelphia Inquirer reports that scientists at the University of Pennsylvania's Department of Neurosurgery are working to integrate prostheses directly into the patient's nervous system, so that an arm or hand could someday be operated by thought alone.
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March 4, 2011
Michael Grandner, PhD and Allan Pack, MBChB, PhD were interviewed by ABC World News Tonight with Diane Sawyer and ABCNews.com about sleep deprivation and unintentionally falling asleep.
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February 28, 2011
A cover story and series of articles in the March/April issue of the Penn Gazette report that a remarkable collection of Penn scientists is attacking the merciless affliction known as Alzheimer’s, along with other neurodegenerative diseases. More than a dozen Penn Alzheimer's experts are highlighted, including Virginia Lee, PhD, MBA, John Trojanowski, MD, PhD, Gerard Schellenberg, PhD, Leslie Shaw, PhD, Steven Arnold, MD, Jason Karlawish, MD and David Wolk, MD.
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February 28, 2011
David Dinges, PhD, Chief of the Division of Sleep and Chronobiology and professor of Psychology in Psychiatry, was interviewed in a Philadelphia Inquirer article looking at fatigue and ways to detect sleepiness.
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February 24, 2011
In continuing coverage, Momsteam.com reports on a study by Penn Medicine researchers, co-authored by, Laura Balcer, MD, MSCE, which found that a simple, quick test given on athletic sidelines was effective in spotting concussions in athletes.
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February 23, 2011
Adrian Raine, D.Phil, professor of Criminology, Psychiatry, and Psychology, was interviewed on CNN.com's Paging Dr. Gupta about freedom of will.
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February 23, 2011
John O'Reardon, MD, associate professor of Psychiatry, discussed transcranial magnetic stimulation as a treatment for chronic severe depression with the Delaware News Journal.
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February 23, 2011
Mahendra Bhati, MD, assistant professor of Clinical Psychiatry, appeared in a 6ABC special report looking at object and animal hoarding.
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February 22, 2011
Researchers in the Department of Psychiatry, under the direction of Karl Rickels, MD and Irwin Lucki, PhD, have spent more than a decade researching and testing a new treatment for depression. The drug became the first new medicine to treat depression in more than a decade when it received FDA approval in January.
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February 22, 2011
The Penn Behavioral Sleep Medicine Program was mentioned in a Good Morning America story about natural remedies for chronic sleep problems. Coverage also appeared on ABCNews.com.
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February 21, 2011
Stacy Horn, DO, an assistant professor of clinical Neurology at Penn's Parkinson's Disease & Movement Disorders Center, was interviewed in a HealthDay article regarding prescription amphetamines and the risk of developing Parkinson's disease.
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February 18, 2011
Edna Foa, PhD and Elna Yadin, PhD were quoted in an O Magazine article which looks at the role of MDMA (the active ingredient in the street drug Ecstasy) as a potential PTSD treatment.
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February 18, 2011
Neurologist Laura Balcer, MD, MSCE and colleagues at the School of Medicine’s Neurology department are researching the efficacy of a simple sideline test to detect concussions in athletes, according to the Daily Pennsylvanian.
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February 14, 2011
In response to concerns about a recent increase in head injuries across sports, Ivy League representatives are now collaborating to improve concussion prevention, detection and treatment in athletics, according to The Dartmouth. The article cites a Penn Medicine study advocating a new sideline concussion test.
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February 14, 2011
Johnny O'Reardon, MD, associate professor of Psychiatry, appeared on Fox29 to discuss Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS), a depression treatment offered at Penn Medicine that helps patients who may not receive benefit from medications or therapy.
February 10, 2011
The Daily Pennsylvanian reports that David Dinges, PhD and Mathias Basner, MD, MS, MSc are among a group of American scientists tasked with measuring the impact of isolation and confinement of a team of astronauts to "understand the effects of long-duration space travel" on human behavior.
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February 9, 2011
The Philadelphia Business Journal ran an article about a Muscular Dystrophy Association grant given to Jon Lindstrom, PhD to support his efforts to develop a therapy for myasthenia gravis.
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February 8, 2011
CNN.com reports on a new Penn Medicine study which found that a two-minute test given to athletes with suspected traumatic brain injury, was a near-perfect gauge of whether a concussion had occurred. Laura Balcer, MD, MSCE, Kristin Galetta, MS, and Steven Galetta, MD were quoted in the article.
Coverage of this story also appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer, UPI.com, Medill News Service, FoxNews.com, Los Angeles Times, WebMD.com, NBC10, USA Today, 6ABC and CBS Radio.
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February 8, 2011
James Schuster, MD discussed the uncertainty of traumatic brain injury with the Daily Pennsylvanian.
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February 7, 2011
Doug Smith, MD was interviewed on Good Morning America, looking at the potential brain injury risks in football. Coverage of the research also appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer, UPI.com, Medill News Service, FoxNews.com, the Los Angeles Times, NBC10 and WebMD.
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February 7, 2011
Jane C. Ballantyne, MD, professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, tells Men’s Health magazine about the dangers of
prescription opioid abuse.
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February 2, 2011
The launch of the International Genomics of Alzheimer’s Project (IGAP) – a collaboration formed to discover and map the genes that contribute to Alzheimer’s disease – was announced yesterday. The Alzheimer’s Disease Genetics Consortium (ADGC) from the United States, led by Gerard Schellenberg, PhD, is one of the four groups.
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January 28, 2011
KYW Radio reported on research being performed by Penn Medicine that is looking at finding a way to diagnose Alzheimer's disease sooner.
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January 27, 2011
John O’Reardon, MD, associate professor of Psychiatry, provides recommendations for combatting Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) on WHYY's Radio Times.
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January 24, 2011
AlzForum.org discusses the work of Virginia, M.Y. Lee, PhD and John Q. Trojanowski, MD, PhD, in an article about TDP-43, the major disease protein in ALS and FTLD.
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January 21, 2011
Steven E. Arnold, MD, director of the Penn Memory Center, commented in a WHYY Radio report about the use of a new imaging test to determine if a patient has Alzheimer's disease.
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January 20, 2011
The Concord Monitor interviewed Michael Thase, MD about transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) as a treatment for resistant depression.
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January 17, 2011
Mahendra T. Bhati, MD was quoted in a Daily Pennsylvanian article about Penn Medicine's role as a national testing site for the DSM-5 trials.
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January 17, 2011
Michael Thase, MD spoke with Reuters Health regarding reports that people with long-lasting depression may benefit from talk therapy when other treatment methods such as antidepressant drugs alone aren't working.
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January 14, 2011
M. Sean Grady, MD, chair and professor of Neurosurgery, was interviewed on WHYY's Radio Times with Marty Moss-Coane, about neurotrauma from gun shot wounds and how neurocritical care doctors, nurses and families can aid the healing process.
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January 14, 2011
Robert Berkowitz, MD, associate professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics with the Center for Weight and Eating Disorders, spoke with CBS3 about new USDA guidelines for school lunches.
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January 13, 2011
John Trojanowski, MD, PhD, director of the Instituite on Aging at Penn, was quoted in a Nature Reviews Neurology article about new cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers for frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD).
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January 13, 2011
Stephen J. Morse, a professor of Law and Psychiatry, discusses the insanity defense in a New York Times report about the mental health of the Arizona gunman, Jared L. Loughner.
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January 12, 2011
The Scripps Research Institute in Jupiter and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine will share an $8.2 million grant to look for ways to fight tobacco addiction, according to the South Florida Business Journal. Penn professor of Neuroscience Jon Martin Lindstrom, PhD will be one of the principal investigators.
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January 12, 2011
Bert O'Malley, MD is quoted
in a Health Leaders Magazine article that talks about
improving outcomes for patients with head and neck cancer.
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January 12, 2011
M. Sean Grady, MD was interviewed by the Philadelphia Inquirer and CNN.com regarding the rehabilitation of
Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who
survived a gunshot that sent a bullet through the left side of her brain.
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January 10, 2011
David Mandell, ScD and Mahendra T. Bhati, MD were interviewed by WHYY Radio regarding upcoming revisions to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
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January 10, 2011
The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that Mahendra T. Bhati, MD will lead the field trials at Penn Medicine for the forthcoming edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM-5.
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January 6, 2011
John Trojanowski, MD, PhD was quoted in a USA Today article which reported that Alzheimer's disease, already a national epidemic, got a lift this week when President Obama signed the National Alzheimer's Project Act (NAPA) into law.
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January 6, 2011
In a study published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, a team led by Virginia M.-Y. Lee, PhD, MBA, found that the malfunctioning gene associated with Lou Gehrig’s Disease leads to nerve-cell death in mice.
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January 5, 2011
Bucks County Courier Times and MSNBC.com report that 105 Philadelphia area senior citizens are participating in a Penn Memory Center resilience study, led by Steven E. Arnold, MD, that looks at the impact of stress on aging brain function.
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January 5, 2011
ABC and NBC affiliates reported that doctors at the University of Pennsylvania, including William Welch, MD, professor of Neurosurgery,
are using a three dimensional robotic operating system for back surgeries.
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January 4, 2011
Philadelphia Magazine spoke with Philip Gehrman, PhD, CBSM, assistant professor of Psychiatry, about Seasonal Affective Disorder remedies.
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January 4, 2011
HealthDay News and MedPage Today report on a new study, led by Teresa Franklin, PhD, which found that two drugs that help people stop smoking -- bupropion and varenicline -- may change the way the brain reacts to seeing someone else smoke.
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January 4, 2011
Penn Medicine has been selected as one of seven adult field trial sites to test proposed diagnostic criteria for the American Psychiatric Association's (APA) fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). Mahendra T. Bhati, MD will lead the field trials at Penn Medicine.
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January 3, 2011
Edna Foa, PhD, one of the world's experts on treating PTSD and director of the Center for the Treatment and Study of Anxiety is profiled on the front page of Sunday's Philadelphia Inquirer.
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