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Study shows that insomnia may cause dysfunction in emotional brain circuitry
<P>Contact: Lynn Celmer<BR>lcelmer@aasmnet.org<BR>630-737-9700<BR>American Academy of Sleep Medicine <BR>
<P>DARIEN, IL ? A new study provides neurobiological evidence for dysfunction in the neural circuitry underlying emotion regulation in people with insomnia, which may have implications for the risk relationship between insomnia and depression.</P>
<P>"Insomnia has been consistently identified as a risk factor for depression," said
Tests lead to doubling of fuel cell life
<P>Contact: Marianne Meadahl<BR>Marianne_Meadahl@sfu.ca<BR>778-782-9017<BR>Simon Fraser University <BR>
<P>Researchers working to improve durability in fuel cell powered buses, including a team from Simon Fraser University, have discovered links between electrode degradation processes and bus membrane durability.</P>
<P>The team is quantifying the effects of electrode degradation stressors in the operating cycle of the bus on the membrane
Making chaos visible theory more accessible to the scientific community.
<P>Contact: Christian Herbst<BR>christian.herbst@univie.ac.at<BR>43-142-777-6101<BR>University of Vienna <BR>
<P><B>This news release is available in German. </B></P>
<P>Exactly 50 years after the US-American meteorologist Edward Lorenz discovered chaos (remember the "butterfly effect"?) the topic is still as fascinating as ever. A new visualization technique developed at the University of Vienna helps to make chaos visible
'Boys will be boys' in US, but not in Asia
<P>Contact: Megan McClelland<BR>megan.mcclelland@oregonstate.edu<BR>541-737-9225<BR>Oregon State University <BR>
<P>CORVALLIS, Ore. ? A new study shows there is a gender gap when it comes to behavior and self-control in American young children ? one that does not appear to exist in children in Asia.</P>
<P>In the United States, girls had higher levels of self-regulation than boys. Self-regulation is defined as children's ability to control
Johns Hopkins rewrites obsolete blood-ordering rules
<P>Contact: Stephanie Desmon<BR>sdesmon1@jhmi.edu<BR>410-955-8665<BR>Johns Hopkins Medicine <BR>
<P>Johns Hopkins researchers have developed new guidelines ? the first in more than 35 years ? to govern the amount of blood ordered for surgical patients. The recommendations, based on a lengthy study of blood use at The Johns Hopkins Hospital (JHH), can potentially save the medical center more than $200,000 a year and improve patient safety, researchers
Overcoming resistance to anti-cancer drugs by targeting cell 'powerhouses'
<P>Contact: Michael Bernstein<BR>m_bernstein@acs.org<BR>202-872-6042<BR>American Chemical Society <BR>
<P>Re-routing anti-cancer drugs to the "power plants" that make energy to keep cells alive is a promising but long-neglected approach to preventing emergence of the drug-resistant forms of cancer ? source of a serious medical problem, scientists are reporting. That's the conclusion of a new study published in the journal ACS Chemical Biology.
UAF researchers contribute to global glacier study
<P>Contact: Diana Campbell<BR>dlcampbell@alaska.edu<BR>907-474-5229<BR>University of Alaska Fairbanks <BR>
<P>Fairbanks, Alaska? Alaska's melting glaciers remain one of the largest contributors to the world's rising sea levels, say two University of Alaska Fairbanks scientists. </P>
<P>Anthony Arendt and Regine Hock, UAF Geophysical Institute geophysicists, joined 14 scientists from 10 countries, who combined data from field measurements
Thinking 'big' may not be best approach to saving large-river fish
<P>Contact: Brenda Pracheil<BR>pracheil@wisc.edu<BR>402-613-0315<BR>University of Wisconsin-Madison <BR></P>
<P>MADISON, Wis. ? Large-river specialist fishes ? from giant species like paddlefish and blue catfish, to tiny crystal darters and silver chub ? are in danger, but researchers say there is greater hope to save them if major tributaries identified in a University of Wisconsin-Madison study become a focus of conservation
ESO's Very Large Telescope celebrates 15 years of success
<P>Contact: Richard Hook<BR>rhook@eso.org<BR>49-893-200-6655<BR>ESO <BR></P>
<P>With this new view of a spectacular stellar nursery ESO is celebrating 15 years of the Very Large Telescope ? the world's most advanced optical instrument. This picture reveals thick clumps of dust silhouetted against the pink glowing gas cloud known to astronomers as IC 2944. These opaque blobs resemble drops of ink floating in a strawberry cocktail, their whimsical
Post-approval TAVI registry shows high rates of device success at 1 year
<P>Contact: Isabelle Uzielli<BR>iuzielli@europcr.com<BR>33-612-233-492<BR>European Society of Cardiology <BR>
<P>21 May 2013, Paris, France: One-year results from SOURCE XT ? one of the largest, post-approval transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) registries to-date ? reported today at EuroPCR 2013 show good clinical outcomes in routine clinical practice, with high rates of device success for all access approaches, valve sizes and delivery
