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Top honors
NIH Director's Pioneer Award to Washington University scientist
Oct. 1,
2009 -- A Washington University scientist has won a prestigious NIH Director's Pioneer Award — one of only 18 given this year — to develop innovative ways to simultaneously monitor the activity of many neurons.
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Improving care and treatment
Registry to track children with infantile spasms
Sept. 16,
2009 --
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Researchers at the School of Medicine and the University of Chicago have launched what is believed to be the first worldwide, online registry of children with infantile spasms, a severe type of epilepsy that affects babies in the first few months of life.
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Insight into insomnia
Insomniac flies resemble sleep-deprived humans
June 2,
2009 -- Researchers at the School of Medicine have created a line of fruit flies that may someday help shed light on the mechanisms that cause insomnia in humans. The flies, which only get a small fraction of the sleep of normal flies, resemble insomniac humans in several ways.
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James Cheverud
Professor of Physical Anthropology in Arts and Sciences
Expertise: quantitative genetics, evolutionary theory, human genetics, human and nonhuman primate biology, genetics, obesity, evolution, …
Direct contact: (314) 362-4188
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cheverud@wustl.edu
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Jane Phillips-Conroy
Professor of Anthropology in Arts and Sciences
Phillips-Conroy's studies of free-ranging primates are focused on how behavioral, demographic and ecological variables function to influence populaton structure. Her research has been focused on a long-term study of the hybrid zone between olive and hamadryas baboons in the Awash National Park in Ethiopia ...
Expertise: behavior and ecology, primate biology, diet and nutrition, dental morphology, east Africa, South America
Direct contact: (314) 362-3396
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baboon@wustl.edu
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Glenn C. Conroy
Professor of Anatomy and Physical Anthropology
Conroy is co-developer of a method to analyze fossilized skulls using computed tomography, or CT, scans. The system lets researchers see inside skull fossils and reconstruct the skull from fragments, allowing a precise measure of brain size.
Expertise: primate evolution, comparative anatomy, human evolution, Southern Africa, extant primates, fossil hominids, anatomy, …
Direct contact: (314) 362-3397
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Ursula Goodenough
Professor of Biology in Arts & Sciences
Leading cell biologist and Washington University professor of biology Ursula Goodenough, is the author of a bestselling textbook, Genetics, and also wrote the popular discourse on religion and science The Sacred Depths of Nature, which was named Oustanding Academic Book of 1999 by Choice. She has served ...
Expertise: evolution of sex, speciation
Media assistance: (314) 935-5272 / dlutz@wustl.edu
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Joel S. Perlmutter
Professor of Neurology and Radiology
Perlmutter works with patients who have movement disorders including Parkinson's disease, a progressive, degenerative movement disorder; dystonia, a state of abnormal tension in the body's tissues; Huntington's disease, an inherited adult-onset disease of the central nervous system; and essential tremor, ...
Expertise: neuroimaging, neuropharmacology, Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, dystonia, essential tremor, dopaminergic pathways, …
Media assistance: (314) 286-0110 / jdryden@wustl.edu
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Unfolding the mysteries of the brain
The Boston Globe
Aug. 3,
2009 -- Technological and computational advances have enabled researchers to image the brain's wrinkled exterior in stunning detail, mapping the size and shape of each fold. Scientists pursuing this new discipline of "cortical cartography'' expect it to yield insights into how the brain develops and what happens when things go awry. WUSTL neurobiologist David Van Essen comments.
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Doggie 'Doctors' Diagnose Their Owners' Ills
MSNBC.com
and 2 others
Aug. 28,
2008 -- WUSTL anatomy and neurobiology professor Timothy Holy comments on pets whose keen senses of smell and intuitions helped alert their owners to medical problems that they were unaware of.
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Commentary: Can insomnia kill?
Los Angeles Times
March 31,
2008 -- Commentary on insomnia mentions sleep studies of twins by WUSTL psychiatry professor Andrew Heath.
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Science Notebook
The Washington Post
Sept. 27,
2006 -- David Brown writes about a study on sleep and learning using fruit flies in the journal Science.
WUSTL neurobiology researchers Jeff Donlea and Paul Shaw participated in the study.
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And now, please welcome Modest Mouse
New York Times, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Nature Magazine (UK)
and 50 others
Nov. 1,
2005 -- WUSTL neurobiologists Timothy Holy and Zhongsheng Guo have analyzed the vocalizations of male mice and found that they have the characteristics of song — with distinct types of syllables uttered in phrases and motifs. The finding is reported in a paper in the journal PLoS Biology.
The researchers found that individual mice sing distinct songs. Dr. Holy said that this suggested that some element of learning might be involved.
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