Sentences with phrase «university brain center»

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Last year The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center began clinical trials on the efficacy of SuperBetter to treat traumatic brain injuries, and the University of Pennsylvania Positive Psychology Center greenlighted a randomized controlled user study of the game to treat depression.

She addressed attendees at the first - ever Fortune Brainstorm Health conference on Tuesday during a plenary session with Dr. Roberta Diaz Brinton, director of the Center for Innovation in Brain Science at the University of Arizona Health Sciences and University of Southern California Professor David Agus.

Angelika Dimoka, director of the Center for Neural Decision Making at Temple University, conducted a study that measured people's brain activity while they addressed increasingly complex problems (i.e., noise).

Dr. Richard Davidson, a neuroscientist and founder of the Center for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, has been studying the effects of positive emotions, such as compassion and kindness, on the brain since the 1990s.

Tell us, so we can close all these expensive universities and other centers of learning, and just kneel and pray to god to deliver knowledge to our brains via AngelMail.

One sign of that is increased funding from the National Institutes of Health, which has helped establish new contemplative science research centers at Stanford University, Emory University, and the University of Wisconsin, where the world's first brain imaging lab with a meditation room next door is now under construction.

This isn't the first study dedicated to this subject, but it is «one of the largest studies to date in living retired NFL players» and the «first to demonstrate significant objective evidence for traumatic brain injury in these former players,» study author Francis X. Conidi of the Florida Center for Headache and Sports Neurology and Florida State University College of Medicine said in a statement.

According to the University of Maryland Medical Center polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs)-- also known as omega - 3 fatty acids — play a crucial role in human brain function, as well as normal growth and development, with research showing that they can also reduce inflammation in addition to helping lower the risk of chronic diseases such as heart disease, cancer, and arthritis.

A study from the University of California - Los Angeles Easton Center for Alzheimer's Disease Research shows people with diets deficient in omega - 3 fatty acids were more susceptible to accelerated brain aging.

As part of the partnership, the NFL will encourage players to sign up to donate their brains to the Boston University Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy, and the league also will contact the families of nearly 100 former players known to have Alzheimer's and dementia and ask that they consider brain donations as well.

One night, while lying in bed watching the Seau coverage on TV, he made the decision to donate his brain and spinal tissue to Boston University's Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy Center to help further research into athletes and degenerative brain disease.

Boogaard's family announced that it would donate his brain to the Boston University Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy.

Because, they asserted, the media, ably aided and abetted by Dr. Ann McKee of the Department of Veterans Affairs and Boston University's CTE Center, along with the PBS series, Frontline, had for years been using the results of autopsies of the brains of a small, self - selected group of former athletes to create a «sensationalized state of fear» about CTE.

Kevin Guskiewicz, PhD, ATC, Kenan Distinguished Professor and Director of the Matthew Gfeller Sport - Related Traumatic Brain Injury Research Center at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,

«It's kind of like weight training,» said Richard Davidson, PhD, psychology and psychiatry professor at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, director of the Waisman Laboratory for Brain Imaging and Behavior, and founder of the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds.

«We tell parents that they know their child,» says Jill Lorenzi, a clinical associate at the Duke University Center for Autism and Brain Development in Durham.

Lorenzi says the Duke University Center for Autism and Brain Development can be an educational advocate for special needs children.

National Scientific Council on the Developing Child, housed at the Center of the Developing Child at Harvard University, is a multi-disciplinary collaboration designed to bring the science of early childhood and early brain development to bear on public decision - making.

In a 2012 study, [8] researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) measured before - and - after data from the brains of a group of nine high school football and hockey players using an advanced form of imaging similar to an MRI called diffusion tensor imaging (DTI).

A decade later, he and Kevin Guskiewicz, now director of the Matthew Gfeller Sport - Related Traumatic Brain Injury Research Center at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, produced a study of more than 2,900 college football players that had a significant impact on return - to - play standards.

* Day 1 Monday, February 22, 2016 4:00 PM -5:00 PM Registration & Networking 5:00 PM — 6:00 PM Welcome Reception & Opening Remarks Kevin de Leon, President pro Tem, California State Senate Debra McMannis, Director of Early Education & Support Division, California Department of Education (invited) Karen Stapf Walters, Executive Director, California State Board of Education (invited) 6:00 PM — 7:00 PM Keynote Address & Dinner Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl, Co-Director, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences * Day 2 Tuesday February 23, 2016 8:00 AM — 9:00 AM Registration, Continental Breakfast, & Networking 9:00 AM — 9:15 AM Opening Remarks John Kim, Executive Director, Advancement Project Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California Tom Torlakson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, California Department of Education 9:15 AM — 10:00 AM Morning Keynote David B. Grusky, Executive Director, Stanford's Center on Poverty & Inequality 10:00 AM — 11:00 AM Educating California's Young Children: The Recent Developments in Transitional Kindergarten & Expanded Transitional Kindergarten (Panel Discussion) Deborah Kong, Executive Director, Early Edge California Heather Quick, Principal Research Scientist, American Institutes for Research Dean Tagawa, Administrator for Early Education, Los Angeles Unified School District Moderator: Erin Gabel, Deputy Director, First 5 California (Invited) 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM «Political Will & Prioritizing ECE» (Panel Discussion) Eric Heins, President, California Teachers Association Senator Hannah - Beth Jackson, Chair of the Women's Legislative Committee, California State Senate David Kirp, James D. Marver Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, Chairman of Subcommittee No. 2 of Education Finance, California State Assembly Moderator: Kim Pattillo Brownson, Managing Director, Policy & Advocacy, Advancement Project 12:00 PM — 12:45 PM Lunch 12:45 PM — 1:45 PM Lunch Keynote - «How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character» Paul Tough, New York Times Magazine Writer, Author 1:45 PM — 1:55 PM Break 2:00 PM — 3:05 PM Elevating ECE Through Meaningful Community Partnerships (Panel Discussion) Sandra Guiterrez, National Director, Abriendo Purtas / Opening Doors Mary Ignatius, Statewide Organize of Parent Voices, California Child Care Resource & Referral Network Jacquelyn McCroskey, John Mile Professor of Child Welfare, University of Southern California School of Social Work Jolene Smith, Chief Executive Officer, First 5 Santa Clara County Moderator: Rafael González, Director of Best Start, First 5 LA 3:05 PM — 3:20 PM Closing Remarks Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California * Agenda Subject to Change

Dr. Carter was Professor of Psychiatry and Co-Director of the Brain Body Center at the University of Illinois at Chicago from 2001 - 2012.

Kevin Guskiewicz, Ph.D., ATC Kenan Distinguished Professor and Matthew Gfeller Sport - Related Traumatic Brain Injury Research Center Co-Director, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ACC appointee

Kenan Distinguished Professor and Matthew Gfeller Sport - Related Traumatic Brain Injury Research Center Co-Director, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Nowinski, who suffered multiple concussions on the football field and in the wrestling ring, now dedicates his work to concussion research and education, both at the Sports Legacy Institute, where he is president, and at Boston University, where he is co-director of the Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy, a degenerative brain disease brought on by repeated trauma.

Harvard University's Center on the Developing Child reports that in the first few years, more than 1 million new neural connections are formed every second, building the brain's architecture.

«Having executive function in the brain is like having an air traffic control system at a busy airport to manage the arrivals and departures of dozens of planes on multiple runways,» is how the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University describes it.

She worked on multiple research studies as a post graduate at the University of Washington's Institute of Brain and Learning Sciences and Center on Human Development and Disability.

When it comes to executive agencies, including the state and city university systems, however, New York's highest - paid employee in 2016 was psychiatrist and brain researcher Dr. Carlos N. Pato, who earned $ 748,991 as dean of the SUNY Downstate Medical Center.

Dr. McKee directs the Neuropathology Service for the New England Veterans Administration Medical Centers (VISN - 1) and the Brain Banks for the Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy, Framingham Heart Study, and Centenarian Study, which are all based at the Bedford VAMC.

«The number of cases in which people try to introduce neurotechnological evidence in the trial or sentencing phase has gone up by leaps and bounds,» says Joshua Sanes, director of the Center for Brain Science at Harvard University.

Three recent papers authored by Dr. Peter Nelson and others at the University of Kentucky Sanders - Brown Center on Aging, explore the neuropathology behind a little - understood brain disease, hippocampal sclerosis (known to scientists and clinicians as HS - AGING).

The brains of the super-agers showed less cortical thinning, or neuron loss in certain areas, said lead researcher Emily Rogalski, research associate professor at the Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer's Disease Center, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago.

«We argue that conscious experiences, regardless of their content, arise from one system in the brain,» explains LeDoux, a professor in New York University's Center for Neural Science.

At Duke University Medical Center in North Carolina, researchers have surgically implanted electrodes in the brains of monkeys and trained them to move robotic arms at MIT, hundreds of miles away, just by thinking.

A volume decrease in specific parts of the brain's hippocampus — long identified as a hub of mood and memory processing — was linked to bipolar disorder in a study led by researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth).

«We know that high - fat diets are tied to increased risk for metabolic syndrome and obesity, which in turn are associated with decreased brain function,» said TOS spokesperson Kelly Allison, PhD, Director of Education, Center for Weight and Eating Disorders and Associate Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Health System.

In a second study, (abstract 2.348) researchers from New York University's Langone Medical Center find that genetic mutations altering the transmission of electrical impulses in the heart and brain may raise the risk of SUDEP in people.

An experimental drug in early development for aggressive brain tumors can cross the blood - brain tumor barrier, kill tumor cells and block the growth of tumor blood vessels, according to a study led by researchers at the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center — Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC — James).

Notre Dame Associate Professor of Psychology James Brockmole, who specializes in human cognition and how the visual world guides behavior, conducted the research at Notre Dame with Adam Biggs, currently a post-doctoral fellow in the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences and the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, and Jessica Witt, associate professor of cognitive psychology at Colorado State University.

He is chairman of the department of anesthesiology at Hackensack University Medical Center in New Jersey, and he points out that an anesthesiologist creates brain - dead patients every day: «We give drugs to make them die.

In the July issue of Neuron, a team at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina, describes a powerful new imaging tool that helps read the brain's «smell code.»

Maureen Boyle, chief of the Science Policy Branch of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and Edward Bilsky, a professor of pharmacology and the founding director of the Center for Excellence in Neurosciences at the University of New England, showed how opioids can commandeer the brain's natural systems that control pain and reward, and trigger a vicious response cycle that can diminish the pain - relieving power of medications, prompt users to reach for increasingly larger quantities of opioids and lead to deadly overdoses.

Toward that end, potentially game - changing research comes from Dritan Agalliu, a vascular biologist and blood - brain barrier expert at Columbia University Medical Center in New York.

Recently, groups working independently at Yale Medical School; the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Manchester, New Hampshire, and Harvard; and the University of California at San Diego reported that in afflicted individuals an important region of the brain called the hippocampus is smaller than average.

Pasko Rakic at Yale University and colleagues at the University of Zagreb, Croatia, and the VU University Medical Center in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, have now found that the brains of adults in their 20s are still subject to synaptic pruning.

Raising further doubt, a team led by Douglas Galasko, director of the Alzheimer's Disease Research Center at the University of California, San Diego, twice tried to find BMAA in Chamorros and North Americans who died of brain disease — and both times came up empty - handed, though using a different method of chemical identification than the one employed by Cox and the Miami team.

A toxic Alzheimer's protein can spread through the brain — jumping from one neuron to another — via the extracellular space that surrounds the brain's neurons, suggests new research from Columbia University Medical Center.

Jonathan Miller, MD, a neurosurgeon, Director of Functional and Restorative Medicine at UH Case Medical Center, and Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, and colleagues, tested a potential alternative method, called the «Electric WADA,» with patients who received deep brain implants.

Lipocalin 2, which bones unleash to stem bacterial infections, also works in the brain to control appetite, physiologist Stavroula Kousteni of Columbia University Medical Center and colleagues reported in the March 16 Nature.