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New study shows how to protect the brain to prevent depression and cognitive impairment caused by whole brain radiotherapy
Research team from University Hospitals, APP and the Cleveland VA published results in Redox Biology
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April 10, 2015
Alberto Costa, professor of pediatrics at the School of Medicine, reviewed a study titled, “Intracellular chloride accumulation: a possible mechanism for cognitive deficits in Down syndrome” in the April issue of Nature Medicine. The study, involving a mouse model of Down syndrome and analysis of…
April 10, 2015
Graduate and professional students at APP are much more than just students. They’re researchers, teachers and leaders. Through their efforts in their research, graduate and professional students make new breakthroughs in their fields. The organizations they lead improve…
April 06, 2015
From social sciences to social work, management to medicine, and biology to biomedical engineering, research is at the heart of APP. In fact, this past fiscal year alone, researchers earned 1,623 sponsored research awards, totaling more than $311 million. Faculty across…
April 03, 2015
After discovering a unique group of people resistant to tuberculosis (TB) infection, Case Western Reserve researchers are leading an international team dedicated to understanding exactly how they fight off a disease that claims 1.5 million lives each year. The team’s goal is to use lessons…
March 30, 2015
Members of the campus community are invited to take part in the spring session of Mini Med School, presented by APP School of Medicine, University Hospitals Case Medical Center and the Laura and Alvin Siegal Lifelong Learning Program. Mini Med School is medical school…
March 24, 2015
Finding could open unique avenues for treating illness APP scientists have discovered that speed matters when it comes to how messenger RNA (mRNA) deciphers critical information within the genetic code—the complex chain of instructions critical to sustaining life. The…
March 23, 2015
The concept was simple: If two compounds each individually show promise in preventing colon cancer, surely it’s worth trying the two together to see if even greater impact is possible. In this instance, Case Western Reserve cancer researcher Li Li, MD, PhD, could not have been more prescient. Not…
March 23, 2015
A surgical sedative may hold the key to reversing the devastating symptoms of a neurodevelopmental disorder found almost exclusively in females. Ketamine, used primarily for operative procedures, has shown such promise in mouse models that Case Western Reserve and Cleveland Clinic researchers soon…
March 23, 2015
The Biomedical Graduate Student Symposium is accepting abstracts for the 2015 symposium, which will be held on May 8. The symposium is an annual student-organized event showcasing the outstanding research of graduate students from the School of Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine…
March 23, 2015
The Schubert Center for Child Studies and the School of Medicine/University Hospitals Case Medical Center Psychiatry Grand Rounds will present a lecture titled "Assessing and Responding to Violence Risk in Juveniles." The lecture will feature Charles Scott, professor of clinical psychiatry and…