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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 Comprehensive 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.

December 19 , 2007
Research by Caryn Lerman, PhD and John Detre, MD was highlighted by U.S. News and World Report and the ABC News affiliate in Denver.
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December 18 , 2007
Charles P. O’Brien, MD was quoted in a Baltimore Sun article about Suboxone’s use as a treatment for opiate addiction.
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December 4 , 2007
Dr. John O’Reardon, MD was quoted in a piece in the Financial Times about the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine’s role in the study finding that transcranial magnetic stimulation is an effective treatment for patients suffering from depression.
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December 2 , 2007
WKYW aired a story about the new Institute for Regenerative Medicine and its goals of studying stem cells to find treatments and cures for cancer, neurodegenerative diseases, cardiovascular diseases and diabetes.

November 27, 2007
Gregory Brown, PhD comments in a New York Times article about suicide in the elderly population.
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November 15, 2007
James C. Coyne, PhD is quoted in a Wall Street Journal article and an accompanying Health Blog post on continuing coverage of his recent research showing that emotions do not affect a cancer patient’s rate of survival.
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November 7, 2007
Adrian Raine, PhD is mentioned in a USA Today article about the neurobiology of aggression and violence.
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November 6, 2007
An article on the Scattergood Program for the Applied Ethics of Behavioral Health’s lecture series is included in the Daily Pennsylvanian.  Arthur Caplan, PhD is included in the article.
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July 30, 2007
Lee Fleisher, MD, Chair of Anesthesia and Critical Care, is featured in a USA Today article on outpatient surgery safety.
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July 21, 2007
Anthony Rostain, MD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics, is quoted in a Baltimore Sun article about new research showing that half of children with autism can be diagnosed not long after the first birthday.
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July 10, 2007
Amita Sehgal, PhD, Neuroscience, is mentioned in a Philadelphia Inquirer article about public television's science program Nova scienceNow. Sehgal's research on sleep and memory in fruit flies is featured in a segment that airs tonight at 8pm on WHYY TV12.
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July 5, 2007
Richard Doty, PhD, Director, Smell & Taste Center, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, was interviewed for a segment that appeared on ABCNews.com about a recent study showing that loss of the sense of smell can be a predictor for Alzheimer’s Disease.
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June 14, 2007
J. Paul Taylor, MD, PhD and Udai Bhan Panday, PhD, Department of Neurology, were featured in a Philadelphia Inquirer article about their Nature article describing how the cell's protein recycling systems are linked and its implications for treating neurodegenerative diseases.
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