Wednesday, April 06, 2011
Registration is still open for 'BrainTalk,' a free community day on Saturday, April 16 at Eisenhower Hotel & Conference Center in Gettysburg, Pa. Hear brief talks about various nervous system disorders, and have the chance to speak one-on-one with leading neuroscience specialists. Lunch will be provided. Learn more about the event and how to register at PennStateHershey.org/braintalk. (more)
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
The Department of Humanities and The Doctors Kienle Center for Humanistic Medicine at Penn State College of Medicine will present "Healthy Brains, Healthy Communities: A Story of Alzheimer's" on April 5 from noon to 1 p.m. (more)
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Penn State Hershey Neuroscience Institute and Penn State Hershey Cancer Institute have joined forces to hold a Brain Tumor Symposium Friday, Sept. 24. The symposium will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Junker Auditorium (located on the ground floor of Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center) and will feature guest speaker James T. Rutka. CME credit will be available, and lunch will be provided. (more)
Wednesday, June 09, 2010
Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center's Kerstin Betterman, M.D., Ph.D., and Mary Lott, Ph.D., are studying if there is a relationship between blood vessels in the eyes and those in the brain and heart. Volunteers are needed for this study. (more)
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Led by director Steven J. Schiff and assistant director Bruce Gluckman, Penn State's Center for Neural Engineering is forging ahead with confidence. Awarded a $1 million Biomedical Core Center grant from the National Institutes of Health this fall, and with a custom-designed facility in the new Materials/Life Sciences complex in the works for 2011, Schiff, Gluckman and colleagues are positioning the center to become an innovation leader at the intersection of neural engineering, materials science and medicine. One priority is to find more sensitive, precise and individualized strategies to monitor brain activity and suppress seizures before they strike. (more)
Monday, July 13, 2009
A study by scientists at Penn State provides new information about the genes that are involved in a mammal's early brain development, including those that contribute to neurological disorders. The study is the first to use high-throughput sequencing to uncover active genes in developing brains, and it is likely the best evidence thus far for the activity in the brain of such a large number of genes. The research results one day could lead to the development of drugs or gene therapies that treat neurological disorders such as autism and mental retardation. (more)
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Penn State's Chandlee Laboratory, recently renovated at University Park for a new life as home to the Social, Life and Engineering Sciences Imaging Center, or SLEIC, held an open house Monday afternoon (April 13) to celebrate its new multidisciplinary research scanning facility. Penn State College of Medicine now has a twin of the MRI machine in Hershey, which will allow University Park researchers and their colleagues at Penn State Hershey's Center for NMR Research to collaborate more effectively to unlock secrets of the brain. (more)
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Depending on which study you read, the relapse rate for drug and alcohol addiction ranges from 50 to 90 percent. These numbers do not surprise Kyung-An Han, associate professor of biology, whose primary work seeks to understand how molecules in the brain mediate behavior. Han argues that addiction has nothing to do with willpower. She says, "Addiction is a problem of the brain that can be chronic and progressive. It is not a moral issue. Our behavior is largely controlled by brain function." (more)
