Open Up and Say ‘Om’
The Medical School battles burnout with a focus on student resilience. The need to combat medical students’ stress levels could not be more urgent. A recent study in the Journal of the American Medical...
View ArticleBack to Bed
Early school starts pit teens in a conflict between society, biology. The idea of sleep is supposed to evoke feelings of peace, relaxation, and refreshment, but when expert Mary Carskadon, PhD, talks...
View ArticleBait and Switch
Stress flips cocaine relapse to ‘on,’ research switches it back to ‘off.’ A heartbreaking phenomenon of addiction is that just a brief stressful episode can trigger relapse. In a detailed new cocaine...
View ArticleFrom Bench to Market
New biomedical innovation fund makes two grants to accelerate the commercialization of technologies. Often what’s needed to turn biomedical advances in the lab into innovations that reach patients...
View ArticleMind the (Gender) Gap
Mindfulness class helps women, but not men, overcome a downcast mood, study finds. In a new study of a Brown University scholarly course on mindfulness that also included meditation labs, researchers...
View ArticleAs the Worm Turns
In experiments with college students and lab worms, scientists find new genetic clues to sleep. Researchers intent on understanding how too little sleep can undermine health have long suspected a...
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Primary Interest
Unique primary care residency program hangs in budget balance, despite primary care shortage. It’s too soon for Shayla Durfey ScM’19 MD’19 to know whether she’ll apply for a Teaching Health Centers...
View ArticleAsk the Expert: Questionable Advice
Does taking antibiotics until they’re gone really prevent resistance? Antibiotics are usually dispensed with the caution to take the full course, even if the patient feels better, because it prevents...
View ArticleWho Knew?
Multitalented Docs. The stars were out in March at the 2017 Hasbro Children’s Hospital Heroes Ball, where Phyllis Dennery, MD , the Sylvia Kay Hassenfeld Chair of Pediatrics and pediatrician-in-chief...
View ArticleMeasuring Up
The Medical School jumps ahead in the latest rankings. Investments in research and education are paying off for Warren Alpert Medical School in the national rankings. The US News & World Report...
View ArticleState-of-the-Art Lessons in a Medieval Town
Medical students get critical care training in Tübingen, Germany. What do Goethe, Hegel, Kepler, Alois Alzheimer, and Pope Benedict XVI have in common? At some point in their careers, they either...
View ArticleHealth By the Numbers
With a new biomedical informatics center, Brown is taking a deep dive into big health data. On a chilly evening in downtown Providence, a gaunt man is rushed to the hospital, unconscious. He knows no...
View ArticleGrow A Brain
Neural model gives rise to vessels, too. Using nerve cells from an animal, a petri dish, and a little patience, Diane Hoffman-Kim’s lab first described a method for growing mini-brains in 2015. Now a...
View ArticleMutually Inclusive
With a new action plan, the Medical School strives to make medicine as diverse as the society it serves. When Tracey Guthrie, MD RES’99 came to Providence in 1995, as an intern in Brown’s psychiatry...
View ArticleUnder the Radar
Sickle cell trait may confound blood glucose readings. More than 29 million Americans have diabetes—and a quarter of them don’t know it. A person with diabetes can experience anything from heart...
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Brain Drain
Can we remedy the digital malaise? It started with a picture drawn by a 7-year-old girl. In brilliant color, she depicted herself and her happy family in a physician’s exam room. The doctor, though...
View ArticleMeasuring Up
The Medical School jumps ahead in the latest rankings. Investments in research and education are paying off for Warren Alpert Medical School in the national rankings. The US News & World Report...
View ArticleRisk Factors Predict Hospitalization of Kids with Autism
Study findings may help prevent inpatient psychiatric care. Children and teens with autism spectrum disorders often come to hospitals when behavioral episodes overwhelm the support that caregivers can...
View ArticleLipscombe elected president of Society for Neuroscience
The director of the Brown Institute for Brain Science will assume the post next year. The Society for Neuroscience, the world’s largest organization for the study of the brain and nervous system with...
View ArticleHow Do We Learn From Success?
Study shows where in the brain primates log correct outcomes; findings could improve TBI care. When you do something right, you can’t learn anything from your success without a system in the brain for...
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