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Brain Study Shows Dyslexia Impacts Mathematical Processing
WASHINGTON – In the first known study of its kind, researchers have identified brain activity that links dyslexia to difficulty with math. The findings from the Georgetown University Medical Center study are published in the Nov. 1 issue of the journal Neuroimage, now online.
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Georgetown Offers New Treatment Study for Alzheimer’s Disease
WASHINGTON – The Memory Disorders Program at Georgetown University Medical Center is seeking volunteers to participate in a new treatment study for people with mild to moderate Alzheimer’s disease (AD). The study, called “NOBLE,” evaluates the potential benefits of adding an investigational drug, T-817MA, to donepezil (Aricept®).
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Georgetown Lombardi Receives Renewal as DC’s Only Federally Designated Comprehensive Cancer Center
WASHINGTON — The National Cancer Institute (NCI) today awarded a five-year, $11.25 million P30 Cancer Center Support Grant to Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, and renewed its designation as a “comprehensive cancer center.”
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Scientists Call for Investigation of Mysterious Cloud-like Collections In Cells
WASHINGTON — About 50 years ago, electron microscopy revealed the presence of tiny blob-like structures that form inside cells, move around and disappear. But scientists still don’t know what they do — even though these shifting cloud-like collections of proteins are believed to be crucial to the life of a cell, and therefore could offer a new approach to disease treatment.
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NEJM Perspective: “Studying ‘Secret Serums’ — Toward Safe, Effective Ebola Treatments”
WASHINGTON — Conducting clinical studies of agents to treat Ebola and allowing compassionate use of those agents are not necessarily mutually exclusive, writes Georgetown University Medical Center’s Jesse L. Goodman, MD, MPH, in a perspective piece published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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Undergraduate Student Mentored in Georgetown Lombardi Lab Wins Goldwater Scholarship
WASHINGTON — A Georgetown University undergraduate student conducting research on one of the most common and devastating childhood brain tumors has received a prestigious Goldwater Scholarship.
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Mindfulness: Is There a Down Side?
WASHINGTON — Mindfulness — that quality of being aware and “in the moment” — is known to increase emotional wellbeing and improve focus. But the benefits of such “explicit” thought do not appear to extend to all cognitive functioning, say researchers at Georgetown University.
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Georgetown Bioethicist to Advise Pontifical Council
WASHINGTON — Kevin FitzGerald, PhD, SJ, a Jesuit priest, Georgetown bioethicist and cancer researcher, has been appointed by Pope Francis to serve as a consultor to the Pontifical Council for Culture.
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A Single Gene Separates Aggressive and Non-aggressive Lymphatic System Cancer
WASHINGTON — For a rare form of cancer called thymoma, researchers have discovered a single gene defining the difference between a fast-growing tumor requiring aggressive treatment and a slow-growing tumor that doesn’t require extensive therapy.
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Georgetown Huntington Disease Center Studies New Drug to Control Unwanted Movements
WASHINGTON – The Huntington Disease Care, Education and Research Center at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, in collaboration with Georgetown University Medical Center, is studying a new therapy to manage uncontrollable movements, called chorea, experienced by patients with Huntington disease.
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