http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress provides the latest news from New York University Researchers at New York University and NYU Langone Medical Center have created a novel way to enhance MRI by reducing interference from large macromolecules that can often obscure images generated by current chemical exchange saturation transfer (CEST) methods. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-method-cest-mri.html Medical research Mon, 29 Apr 2013 14:46:22 EST news286465554 (Medical Xpress)—Examining social factors is vital to better explaining and understanding the dramatic rise in the number of Americans diagnosed with mental disorders in recent years, according to an analysis by a team of medical and mental health experts. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-social-factors-mental-disorders.html Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 26 Apr 2013 07:22:04 EST news286179717 New research by Professor James Jaccard, Ph.D., and Nicole Levitz, M.P.H., of the New York University Silver School of Social Work and its Center for Latino Adolescent and Family Health (CLAFH) has led them to suggest 12 evidence-based principles that can be used to improve contraceptive counseling of adolescents in U.S. health care clinics, doctor's offices, and health service organizations. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-principles-effective-contraceptive.html Health Mon, 15 Apr 2013 12:42:38 EST news285248508 International nurse migration is a multibillion-dollar global phenomenon. Historically, Mexicans and Central Americans have not played a significant part in the migration of nurses to the United States. A new report, Strengthening health systems in North and Central America: What role for migration?, sponsored by the Migration Policy Institute (MPI), seeks to draw attention to the cross-border migration in the Americas and suggests ways the migration could be managed to meet the demand for health care services in the region. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-nurse-migration-north-central-america.html Health Tue, 05 Mar 2013 11:17:33 EST news281704646 New York University College of Nursing's Professor Michele Shedlin, PhD, recently published a paper, "Sending-Country Violence and Receiving-Country Discrimination: Effects on the Health of Colombian Refugees in Ecuador," on-line in the Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, February 2, 2013. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-focuses-health-colombian-refugees-ecuador.html Health Tue, 19 Feb 2013 13:48:35 EST news280504106 Improvements in the diagnosis and treatment of cancers in recent years have led to a marked increase in patients' physical survival rates. While doctors can treat the physical disease, what is not well understood is how best to address the psychological needs of patients with cancer. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-potential-psilocybin-alleviate-psychological-distress.html Cancer Thu, 31 Jan 2013 10:54:31 EST news278852036 Nurses are the largest group of health care providers in the U.S., and health care leaders and experts agree that engaging registered nurses (RNs) in quality improvement (QI) efforts is essential to improving our health care system, patient care and our nation's health. Unfortunately, despite studies demonstrating the value of nurse-led quality improvement efforts, far too few nurses are involved in these efforts, and the number is not growing, according to a study published in the Journal of Nursing Care Quality. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-early-career-registered-nurses-hospital-quality.html Health Mon, 28 Jan 2013 06:39:07 EST news278577461 New York University College of Nursing (NYUCN) researchers Michele G. Shedlin, PhD, and Joyce K. Anastasi, PhD, DrNP, FAAN, LAc, published a paper, "Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicines and Supplements by Mexican-Origin Patients in a U.S.–Mexico Border HIV Clinic," in the on-line version of the Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-team-publish-journal-association-nurses.html HIV & AIDS Tue, 22 Jan 2013 16:58:44 EST news278096309 We rely on our visual system more heavily than previously thought in determining the causality of events. A team of researchers has shown that, in making judgments about causality, we don't always need to use cognitive reasoning. In some cases, our visual brain—the brain areas that process what the eyes sense—can make these judgments rapidly and automatically. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-causality-eye.html Neuroscience Thu, 10 Jan 2013 12:00:09 EST news277026947 Whether you have a business goal of increasing market share, hope to lose 20 pounds, or have vowed to read Moby Dick, you may have noticed that somewhere around midway to your goal, motivation wanes. According to new research by Stern School of Business assistant marketing professor Andrea Bonezzi, this sort of fourth-inning slump is a common, predictable pattern. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-study-examines-why-motivation-comes.html Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 04 Jan 2013 07:15:27 EST news276506119 Autistic-like behaviors can be partially remedied by normalizing excessive levels of protein synthesis in the brain, a team of researchers has found in a study of laboratory mice. The findings, which appear in the latest issue of Nature, provide a pathway to the creation of pharmaceuticals aimed at treating autism spectrum disorders (ASD) that are associated with diminished social interaction skills, impaired communication ability, and repetitive behaviors. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-neuroscientists-excessive-protein-synthesis-linked.html Autism spectrum disorders Sun, 23 Dec 2012 13:00:35 EST news275488647 Judgments we make with a moral underpinning are made more quickly and are more extreme than those same judgments based on practical considerations, a new set of studies finds. However, the findings, which appear in the journal PLOS ONE, also show that judgments based on morality can be readily shifted and made with other considerations in mind. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-moral-judgments-quicker-extreme-onesbut.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 28 Nov 2012 17:00:06 EST news273344165 Neuroscientists from New York University and the University of California, Irvine have isolated the "when" and "where" of molecular activity that occurs in the formation of short-, intermediate-, and long-term memories. Their findings, which appear in the journal the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, offer new insights into the molecular architecture of memory formation and, with it, a better roadmap for developing therapeutic interventions for related afflictions. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-neuroscientists-isolate-molecular-memory-formation.html Neuroscience Mon, 15 Oct 2012 15:00:21 EST news269512726 Step one: Mats out. Step two: breathe deep. Step three: assume poses. Step four: tense and relax muscles. Step five: sing. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-daily-yoga-regimen-boosts-socialization.html Autism spectrum disorders Thu, 11 Oct 2012 06:16:22 EST news269154859 (Medical Xpress)—Hearing generic language to describe a category of people, such as "boys have short hair," can lead children to endorse a range of other stereotypes about the category, a study by researchers at NYU and Princeton University has found. Their research, which appeared in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), also points to more effective methods to reduce stereotyping and prejudice. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-language-stereotypes-ways-prejudice.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 03 Oct 2012 10:20:02 EST news268474618