Editors: Natalia Gavrilova and Stacy Tessler Lindau
The 5th Annual Interdisciplinary Biomeasures Workshop (and first-ever international gathering) will be held in Chicago, June 14-15, 2007. For updated Workshop agenda please visit CCBAR website at: http://biomarkers.uchicago.edu/Agenda-2007.html. Please contact Karl Mendoza: kmendoza@babies.bsd.uchicago.edu or 773-834-4832 for more information.
[Psychology-BS]
Ape gestures and language evolution
The natural communication of apes may hold clues about language
origins, especially because apes frequently gesture with limbs and
hands,...
[EDITORIAL] Behavioral Science Comes of Age
[Neuroscience]
Functional neuroimaging and behavioral correlates of capacity ...
Sleep deprivation (SD) impairs short-term memory, but it is unclear
whether this is because of reduced storage capacity or processes...
[Physiology]
Mismatched pre- and postnatal nutrition leads to cardiovascular ...
The early life environment has long-term implications for the risk
of developing cardiovascular (CV) disease in adulthood. Fetal responses
to...
• A
Little Alcohol May Help Aging Brains
Drinking alcohol in moderation may slow the progression to dementia in
elderly people who already have mild mental declines, new research
suggests.
• Eating
Fish May Preserve Eyesight
A new study shows people who eat at least two servings of fish per week
are less likely to develop age-related macular degeneration (AMD) " a
common cause of blindness among older people.
• Fiber
Might Fight Diabetes
Eating fiber-rich, whole-grain cereal may not only keep you regular,
but it may also reduce the risk of developing type 2 diabetes.
• Mens' minds decline
more with age
Everyone becomes a little more forgetful as they get older, but men's
minds decline more than women's, according to the results of a
worldwide survey.
• Gene
links longevity and diet, scientists say
Roundworms may hold the key to the secret of longer human life.
• Retinol
May Smooth Aging Skin
Retinol lotion may ease the appearance of fine wrinkles in elderly
skin, experts report in the Archives of Dermatology.
• No
Cancer Risk From Blood Transfusion
Blood transfusions containing blood from precancerous donors do not
appear to increase the risk of cancer in the recipients, according to a
study.
• Tomatoes
Don't Prevent Prostate Cancer
A study shows that lycopene -- found in tomatoes -- doesn't help cut
the risk of getting prostate cancer.
• New
MRI Technology Enables Noninvasive Liver Diagnoses
Two recent studies have found that magnetic resonance elastography
(MRE), a new imaging technique is an accurate tool for non-invasive
diagnosis of liver diseases. The liver responds to many diseases that
damage its cells by developing scar tissue or fibrosis. MRE uses a
modified form of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to accurately measure
the hardness or elasticity of the liver.
• Salt
Increases Ulcer-bug Virulence
Scientists have identified yet another risk from a high-salt diet. High
concentrations of salt in the stomach appear to induce gene activity in
the ulcer-causing bacterium Helicobacter pylori, making it more
virulent and increasing the likelihood of an infected person developing
a severe gastric disease.
• Folic
acid 'reduces stroke risks'
Supplementing foods like bread with folic acid could cut the risks of a
stroke by a fifth, a study suggests.
• Researchers
find big batch of breast cancer genes
A genetic mutation that raises the risk of breast cancer is found in up
to 60 percent of U.S. women, making it the first truly common breast
cancer susceptibility gene, researchers report.
• Many
sleep disorders can involve sexual behaviors
A wide range of sleep disorders carry some
risk of inappropriate sexual behaviors during sleep, or even waking
hours, according to a new report.
• Racial
disparities persist in preterm birth risk
Black infants are four times as likely to be
born before 28 weeks gestation as white infants, an imbalance that
hasn't changed in a decade, a new study shows.
• Daily
Aspirin May Reduce Colon Cancer Risk
A daily dose of 300 milligrams of
aspirin taken for 10 years can cut colon cancer risk by as much as 74
percent, a new British study suggests.
• Beyond
survival: Focus in cancer care shifts to long term
The realization that cancer and its aftermath can go on for years has
given rise to a medical specialty known as survivorship. At several
major hospitals around the United States, survivor programs financed by
the Lance Armstrong Foundation are focusing on life after cancer.
• Anger
Can Make You More Rational, Not Less, According To Recent Studies
Anger is appropriately blamed for flawed thinking since it tends to
alter perception of risk, increase prejudice, and trigger aggression.
But is anger always destructive? Three recent experiments suggest it's
not.
• Many
Americans Fall Short on Vitamin D
Elderly at Risk for Muscle Weakness and Poor Physical Performance
Events
NIH webcast
Air date: 6/7/2007 12:00:00 PM Eastern Time
Integrative
Health: A Pathway Approach
Annual Matilda White Riley NIH Lecture in the Behavioral and Social
Sciences
Carol D. Ryff, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin
Burton H. Singer, Ph.D., Princeton University
Drs. Ryff and Singer focus on positive health, operationalized with
measures of well-being, as more than the absence of disease and
illness. A variety of empirical studies show diverse combinations of
conditions...
Alzheimer's
Disease Biomarkers:
How Can Specific Population Groups Help Us Identify/Validate Biomarkers
for Presymptomatic Diagnosis and Drug Development?
June 7th - 8th, 2007, Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, Washington D.C.
Biomarker Discovery Webinar
LIVE online seminar on June 20, 2007
Discovery of Autoantibody Biomarkers for Cancer and Autoimmune Disease
HEALTH
AND RETIREMENT STUDY: "HRS Workshop - ISR/SRC Summer Institute,
June 2007,"
(June 18th - 22nd) of the Survey Research Center's Summer
Institute.
6th European Congress of
Gerontology, 5 to 8 July 2007, St Petersburg, Russia
60th Annual Scientific Meeting
of The Gerontological Society of America, November 16-20, San
Francisco, United States
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This Newsletter is
supported by a grant from the National Institute on Aging, National
Institutes of Health (Grant No. 5 P30 AG012857)