Robert C. Green, MD, MPH, co-director, Alzheimer’s Disease Clinical & Research Program and professor of Neurology, Genetics and Epidemiology and Ron Killiany, PhD, director of the Center for Biomedical Imaging and associate professor of Anatomy and Neurobiology will be awarded an Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) grant. This GO grant is funded by the National […]
Domenic A. Ciraulo, MED chairman of psychiatry, says that for teachers, clinicians, and researchers in the fields of psychiatry and psychology, the DSM serves as a dictionary.
The 58-year-old bible of psychology and psychiatry, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, best known as simply the DSM, recently released the much-anticipated proposed revisions for its upcoming fifth edition, with additions of new mental disorders and narrowing or expanding working definitions of others. The changes will resonate far beyond the mental health field, affecting not only physicians, therapists, patients, and their families, but health insurers, drug companies, teachers, and employers.
John Mackey, Hunter Hillenmeyer, Mike Haynes, Zach Thomas, Kyle Turley to Donate The Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy (CSTE) at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) announced today that one active and 18 retired National Football League (NFL) players have pledged to join the rapidly growing CSTE Brain Donation Registry. The newest donors […]
A bone marrow drive was recently held in honor of Lorraine Witzburg, wife of BUSM Associate Dean of Admissions Bob Witzburg, MD. Two hundred forty-six potential donors registered and hundreds of dollars were donated to the cause. “This was an incredible experience and I felt honored to be there and to feel the sense of […]
Boston resident Michele David, MD, MPH, MBA, FACP, an immigrant from Haiti, has received the 2010 William A. Hinton Award. David was selected by Public Health Commissioner Dr. John Auerbach to receive this award in recognition of her many years of activism, commitment to public health and tireless work to educate others in order that they may better understand, promote and support efforts to eliminate health inequities. David is an assistant professor of medicine at the Boston University School of Medicine, director of community health programs at Boston University Center of Excellence in Women’s Health and co-director of the Boston Medical Center Haitian Health Institute.
Researchers from the Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have determined how the TGFβ-Smad signaling pathway, which is over activated in late-stage cancers, is responsible for the “epigenetic memory” that maintains unique patterns of regulatory DNA hypermethylation causing silencing of critical genes that facilitate breast cancer progression. The findings, which appear online in Cancer Research, […]
Sunday afternoons have felt different for football fans lately, thanks in no small part to researchers at BU.
A dramatic shift has altered the NFL culture over the past few months: rule changes, TV commentators pointing out dangerous hits, public service announcements about concussions, and star quarterbacks ordered to sit out important games after blows to the head. This stunning mid-season transformation has evolved from research at BU’s Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy (CSTE) linking concussions to later-life brain disease.
Deformation of subcellular structures and loss of nerve fibers are documented in human bladder overactivity but mechanistic pathways of these changes remains unknown. Researchers from BUSM led by Kazem Azadzoi, MD, MA, a professor of urology and pathology, and director of urology research, examined mitochondrial integrity and searched for markers of oxidative neural injury in […]
BUSM faculty will be participating in a panel discussion following the Boston premiere of I Remember Better When I Paint, an Alzheimer’s disease documentary on the impact of art on patients. The premiere will be held on January 12, at Boston University. The film focuses on the positive impact of art and other creative therapies […]
Collaboration Will Accelerate Groundbreaking Research on Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy The National Football League Players Association (NFLPA) announced today that it will collaborate with the Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy (CSTE) at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) to support the Center’s efforts to advance the study of the effects of repetitive brain trauma […]