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Scientists have known for years that abnormal activity involving a brain chemical called dopamine is somehow connected to the movements and vocalizations, or tics, associated with Tourette syndrome. Now neuroscience researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found brain activity in these patients is abnormal during memory tasks as well.

An unpleasant postoperative procedure for patients who have had their thyroid glands surgically removed may be unnecessary for some.

Photo by Bob BostonResearch lab supervisor Jon Walker and Gerhard Bauer work in the new state-of-the-art Good Manufacturing Practice center.The Good Manufacturing Practice center is a haven of high-tech environmental control, comparable in some respects to the International Space Station.

The new center aims to support the study, research and teaching of ethics in areas ranging from medicine to business to architecture.

Elliot C. Nelson led a study examining genetic influences on blackouts in general and on the incidence of having three or more of them in a year. More medical articles

He was a medical technician in the pathology department and a teacher in the School of Medicine from 1934-1941.

The title of her talk is “Bad Luck and Sadness Genes in Depression”; it begins at 9 a.m. April 6 in Clopton Auditorium.

David Piwnica-Worms, professor of molecular biology and pharmacology and of radiology, calls a study’s findings a “two-edged sword.”

The Washington University School of Medicine and the George Warren Brown School of Social Work are both ranked second in the nation, according to new graduate and professional rankings released April 2 by U.S. News & World Report magazine. The School of Medicine was tied for second in 2003 and has placed in the top 10 every year since the annual rankings began in 1987. It has ranked first in student selectivity — a measurement of student quality based on Medical College Admission Test scores, undergraduate grade-point average and the proportion of applicants selected — every year since 1998.

Bob BostonResearchers prepare for a leukemia clinical trialA new state-of-the-art research facility dedicated to helping produce modified cells for treatment of cancer and other diseases recently opened at the Siteman Cancer Center. The Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) center is a haven of high-tech environmental control, comparable in some respects to the International Space Station, according to GMP Laboratory Director Gerhard Bauer.