Author: Jim Dryden

Certain types of tantrums in preschoolers may be a sign of serious emotional or behavioral problems, according to School of Medicine researchers.

Young women who transition from taking their first drink to becoming alcoholics have a stronger influence from genetics. School of Medicine researchers found that although environment is most influential in determining when girls begin to drink, genes play a larger role if they advance to problem drinking and alcohol dependence. The researchers studied 3,546 female […]

School of Medicine researchers genes play a larger role than environment if girls advance to problem drinking and alcohol dependence.

The Silvio Conte Center for Neuroscience Research has a new director. Deanna M. Barch, Ph.D., associate professor of psychology in Arts & Sciences, of psychiatry and of radiology, takes over leadership of the center from John G. Csernansky, M.D., the former Gregory B. Couch Professor of Psychiatry, who has become the chairman of psychiatry at […]

School of Medicine researchers have discovered the heart doesn’t slow down as quickly after exercise in patients taking highly active antiretroviral therapy for HIV.

Deanna M. Barch, Ph.D., takes over leadership of the Silvio Conte Center for Neuroscience Research.

Women over age 65 have a harder time preserving muscle than men of the same age, which probably affects their ability to stay strong and fit.

School of Medicine researchers found that depressed heart attack patients have a higher risk for sudden death for years following a heart attack.

School of Medicine anesthesiology researchers have found that a device to ensure surgery patients have no memories of their operations may not lower the risk of the phenomenon known as anesthesia awareness.

School of Medicine researchers have found that a device to ensure that surgery patients have no memories of their operations may not prevent anesthesia awareness.