Depression Prevention In Menopause
For the first time, UNC School of Medicine Research shows that hormone replacement therapy in early menopause can prevent depression.
Category: Publications
Scientists create stem cell therapy for lung fibrosis conditions
Through a joint UNC School of Medicine-NC State research project shows how to harvest lung stem cells non-invasively and then multiply healthy cells – a potentially powerful therapy against inflammatory lung conditions.
COPD, Cystic Fibrosis, News, Publications, Pulmonology, Research
Predicting Autism: Study Links Infant Brain Connections to Diagnose...
In two previous studies, University of North Carolina researchers and colleagues linked infant brain anatomy differences to autism diagnoses at age two. Now they show differences in functional connections between brain regions at 6 months to predict autism at age two.
Autism, Brain Health, Children's Health, Mental Health, News, Publications, Research, Studies
UNC SOM professor consults with Sesame Street to create character w...
Listen to Laura Klinger, PhD, on WUNC's The State of Things discussing the creation of a new Sesame Street character Julia, who is depicted as having autism. Klinger, director of the UNC TEACCH Autism Program, was an expert consultant in the creation of the character.
UNC-Chapel Hill OB-GYN Dr. Alison Stuebe co-authors new study that ...
The new study provides the first comprehensive picture of the health and economic benefits of breastfeeding
UNC research challenges Darwin, shows how a gene cheats Mendel’s la...
Led by UNC School of Medicine’s Fernando Pardo-Manuel de Villena, PhD, a team of geneticists found how the gene R2d2 distorts cell division across generations to affect fertility.
UNC autism article named one of top 10 papers of 2015
Researchers at the Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities tracking age-related issues of autism identified an increased risk of Parkinson’s disease in this high-impact paper.
UNC doctors analyze treatment options for gallbladder disease
Their article, published in The New England Journal of Medicine, explores the pros and cons of five different interventional approaches to treating gallbladder disease – a condition that affects more than 25 million Americans.
New study shows on balance that prostate cancer prevention drug app...
The research team included Dr. Paul Godley of the UNC School of Medicine and UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center.
New data reveal extent of genetic overlap between major mental diso...
Dr. Patrick Sullivan of UNC is a co-author of the study, which found that schizophrenia and bipolar disorder share the most common genetic variation.
Autism, Genome, Innovation, Mental Health, Psychiatry, Publications, Research
Researchers discover biological diversity in triple-negative breast...
A team lead by Charles Perou, PhD, of UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, examined more than 1,700 breast tumors, including 412 triple negative (TN) breast cancers, and concluded that triple-negative cancers, and basal-like breast cancers should not be considered as a single type.
Risk genes for Alzheimer’s and mental illness linked to brain chang...
This study by UNC School of Medicine researchers is the first to report the impact of common gene variants on brain structure in newborns.
Alzheimer's, Genetics, Mental Health, Psychiatry, Publications, Research