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Language skills are essential to a child’s ability to communicate and develop. These skills enable children to engage with other people and learn from their surroundings and in the classroom.

Twenty Radboud researchers receive Veni grant as part of Innovational Research Incentives Scheme

Twenty young and promising researchers from Nijmegen - eleven from Radboud University and nine from Radboudumc - are each to receive up to 250,000. NWO (The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research) is awarding the Veni grant as part of the Innovational Research Incentives Scheme.

25 Jul 2015

UCLA, UTHealth develop new PCBD Checklist for Youth

The first test ever constructed to assess Persistent Complex Bereavement Disorder—a problematic syndrome of grief—has been jointly published by researchers from The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and The University of California, Los Angeles.

25 Jul 2015

Mission statements of medical schools influence outcomes among graduate students

Medical schools whose mission statements underscore societal good and a desire to train students for service to at-risk populations are more likely to produce physicians who will enter careers in primary care (such as family medicine) and work in medically underserved areas, according to a study by Upstate Medical University researchers published in the June issue of the journal Family Medicine.

23 Jul 2015

New assessment tool helps identify children and adolescents with bereavement disorder

Everybody grieves the death of a loved one, and the process helps most mourners adjust to their loss. "Charlie Brown was right," said Christopher Layne, a psychologist and researcher at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA. "There is good grief." But for some people, bereavement becomes a problem in itself, prolonging suffering and impairing functioning. For grieving children and adolescents persistent complex bereavement disorder can derail social and academic development at a time when children and adolescents need to master skills and form aspirations to succeed later in life.

23 Jul 2015

Expectations shape babies' brains

Infants can use their expectations about the world to rapidly shape their developing brains, researchers have found.

21 Jul 2015

Managing Director of Messe Düsseldorf issues statement on upcoming MEDICA 2015

To get to the top is difficult; to stay at the top is even more difficult. Every athlete knows that and this also applies to the trade show business.

21 Jul 2015

Brett Lee named Cochlear's first Global Hearing Ambassador

Australian cricket great, Brett Lee, was today announced as Cochlear's first Global Hearing Ambassador. As one of the world's fastest bowlers, who has smashed multiple cricket records, Brett's new target is 360 million people - and raising awareness about hearing loss.

15 Jul 2015

Lower-intensity summerMAX treatment equally effective as high-intensity for children with HFASD

Researchers at the Institute for Autism Research at Canisius College have found that reducing the intensity of their comprehensive summer treatment (summerMAX) yielded improvements for high-functioning children with autism spectrum disorder (HFASD) that were comparable to the original high-intensity program.

15 Jul 2015

New study reveals how communication patterns sustain relationships between couples affected by AD

When a spouse is cognitively impaired, marital communication is impaired. As Alzheimer's disease (AD) progresses, language problems increase in frequency - such as searching for the right word, repeating the same word, asking the same question over and over, or substituting one word for another.

14 Jul 2015

New study reveals strategy to improve interactions between physicians and patients

Physicians in their medical residency training programs often focus on scientific reasoning and research evidence in their efforts to provide medical care. While appropriate, this focus may overshadow subtle and indirect communication that reveals important information about the patient's experience with their illness that will help the physician provide better care.

14 Jul 2015

Vanderbilt investigators develop potential antibody treatments against chikungunya

In late 2013 the Caribbean had its first case of the mosquito-borne chikungunya virus. Today there have been almost 1.2 million cases in 44 countries or territories, including 177 cases in 31 U.S. States. Vanderbilt University Medical Center's James Crowe, M.D., Ann Scott Carell Professor and director of the Vanderbilt Vaccine Center, and his team are reporting the first large panel of antibody treatments against this disease in the current issue of Cell Host and Microbe.

9 Jul 2015

Neuroscientist receives $2.9 million grant to explore link between language and brain function

Can reading interventions positively impact reading skills and math skills? If so, can the improvement be observed inside the brains of children with combined reading and math disabilities?

9 Jul 2015

TCU, UNTHSC sign MOU to create new MD school in Fort Worth

Texas Christian University and the University of North Texas Health Science Center have entered into a memorandum of understanding to create a new MD school in Fort Worth. The school, planning to accept its first class in 2018, will be among the leading institutions in the nation in providing a team-oriented educational approach that benefits patients and shapes the future practice and business of medicine.

7 Jul 2015

Sialic acid attached to brain cells may affect brain structure, cause neurological problems

New research from The Johns Hopkins University suggests that a molecule commonly found “decorating” brain cells in higher animals, including humans, may affect brain structure.

7 Jul 2015

National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month: CAMFT encourages all minorities to get mental health support

Research from the National Association on Mental Health suggests that one in five Americans experiences a mental illness in a given year. The same research shows that African Americans and Hispanic Americans used mental health services at about one-half the rate of Caucasian Americans and Asian Americans at about one-third the rate.

2 Jul 2015

Rush University Medical Center named finalist for AHA's Equity of Care Award

Rush University Medical Center in Chicago has been named a finalist for the American Hospital Association's Equity of Care Award for its efforts to reduce health care disparities and promote diversity within the organization's leadership and staff.

2 Jul 2015

New article highlights learnings gleaned from monitoring complex HIV clinical trials in Africa

A new article in Clinical Investigation highlights the learnings gleaned from monitoring several complex HIV clinical trials in Africa over a 15 year period.

2 Jul 2015

Scientists develop olfactory fingerprint test to identify individuals from sense of smell

Each of us has, in our nose, about six million smell receptors of around four hundred different types. The distribution of these receptors varies from person to person - so much so that each person's sense of smell may be unique.

1 Jul 2015

ASHG declares 2015 recipients of annual Award for Excellence in Human Genetics Education

The American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) has named Robert L. Nussbaum, M.D., chief medical officer of invitae and clinical professor of medicine (volunteer) at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF); Roderick R. McInnes, CM, M.D., Ph.D., director of the Lady Davis Institute at the Jewish General Hospital and Alva chair in human genetics, Canada Research chair in neurogenetics, and professor of human genetics and biochemistry at McGill University; and Huntington F. Willard, Ph.D., president and director of the Marine Biological Laboratory and professor of human genetics at the University of Chicago; as the 2015 recipients of its annual Award for Excellence in Human Genetics Education.

1 Jul 2015

Sialic acid may play significant role in certain brain disorders

A new report published in the July 2015 issue of The FASEB Journal suggests that a common molecule found in higher animals, including humans, affects brain structure. This molecule may play a significant role in how brain cells communicate, possibly shedding light on the underlying causes of certain brain disorders.

1 Jul 2015

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Twenty Radboud researchers receive Veni grant as part of Innovational Research Incentives Scheme

UCLA, UTHealth develop new PCBD Checklist for Youth

Mission statements of medical schools influence outcomes among graduate students

New assessment tool helps identify children and adolescents with bereavement disorder

Expectations shape babies' brains

Managing Director of Messe Düsseldorf issues statement on upcoming MEDICA 2015

Brett Lee named Cochlear's first Global Hearing Ambassador

Lower-intensity summerMAX treatment equally effective as high-intensity for children with HFASD

New study reveals how communication patterns sustain relationships between couples affected by AD

New study reveals strategy to improve interactions between physicians and patients

Vanderbilt investigators develop potential antibody treatments against chikungunya

Neuroscientist receives $2.9 million grant to explore link between language and brain function

TCU, UNTHSC sign MOU to create new MD school in Fort Worth

Sialic acid attached to brain cells may affect brain structure, cause neurological problems

National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month: CAMFT encourages all minorities to get mental health support

Rush University Medical Center named finalist for AHA's Equity of Care Award

New article highlights learnings gleaned from monitoring complex HIV clinical trials in Africa

Scientists develop olfactory fingerprint test to identify individuals from sense of smell

ASHG declares 2015 recipients of annual Award for Excellence in Human Genetics Education

Sialic acid may play significant role in certain brain disorders

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