Archive for the ‘Disease’ Category
http://www.broadinstitute.org/scientific-community/science/programs/psychiatric-disease/symposium/session-videos This two-day symposium, hosted by Drs. Ed Scolnick of the Broad Institute’s Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Li-Huei Tsai of MIT’s Picower Institute and Guoping Feng of MIT’s McGovern Institute, brought together leading scientists who work on the emerging genetics and biology of schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, autism and other mental illnesses. These illnesses cause […]
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Tags: Broad, GWAS, Mental Illness, Psychiatric, Sequencing, Stanley Center, Symposium
Details of the weight loss A new study published in the NEJM enrolled 50 overweight or obese patients (BMIs between 27 and 40) in a 10-week 500 calorie diet of Optifast VLCD and low starch vegetables. As might be expected with such a rigorous diet 16 dropped out or did not lose the expected weight […]
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Tags: diet, ghrelin, hormones, leptin, long-term, maintenance, NEJM study, obesity
There is a belief in the drug community that the war on drugs prevents good research from being done on drug use. While I agree there is a scarcity of research on the potential uses of many abused drugs or how they alter states of consciousness we really do know an amazing amount about what […]
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Tags: Addiction, Drugs, Epigenetics, Nestler, Review, Transcription
Ben Kuebrich
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