Oncology & Cancer
Heading off financial harms in cancer patients
A screening tool can quickly identify cancer patients at risk of financial toxicity, new findings from Columbia Nursing researchers show.
Mar 29, 2024
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Neuroscience
New study reveals how the brain orchestrates motions in partnership with sensory cues from the body
Motor neurons are the cells the brain uses to command muscles to act. Scientists typically thought of them as simple connections, much like the cables that link computers with their accessories. Now, in fly studies, researchers ...
Mar 20, 2024
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Neuroscience
Can a single brain region encode familiarity and recollection?
The human brain has the extraordinary ability to rapidly discern a stranger from someone familiar, even as it can simultaneously remember details about someone across decades of encounters. Now, in mouse studies, scientists ...
Feb 20, 2024
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Oncology & Cancer
Liver metastasis, metabolism, and a therapeutic conundrum
A new study led by researchers at the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center (HICCC) has identified a crucial factor that can drive tumor cells to spread to the liver. The work, which is published in the current issue ...
Feb 19, 2024
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Genetics
Smell's sensory magic emerges from mechanism that tailors each of nose's sensory cells, mouse study suggests
The mammalian nose is a work of evolutionary art. Its millions of nerve cells, each tailored with just one of thousands of specific odor-chemical receptors encoded in the genome, can collectively distinguish a trillion distinct ...
Dec 20, 2023
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Medications
New study maps ketamine's effects on brain
Ketamine—an anesthetic also known for its illicit use as a recreational drug—has undergone a thorough reputational rehabilitation in recent years as the medical establishment has begun to recognize its wide-ranging therapeutic ...
Dec 4, 2023
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Genetics
Researchers illuminate the complexity of the human hypothalamus
How often do you think about your hypothalamus? Chances are that you never do. As compared to the rest of our brain, it is tiny—just the size of an almond. Yet it is our body's master control, regulating a myriad of functions ...
Nov 21, 2023
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Medications
New drug shows promise in preventing cartilage loss from osteoarthritis
People suffering with osteoarthritis currently have only two treatment options: pain management and joint surgery. Both options can have complications and neither targets the disease's root causes.
Sep 7, 2023
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Neuroscience
Evaluating long-term epilepsy outcomes with laser ablation surgery
Dr. Brett Youngerman and researchers from the Columbia Comprehensive Epilepsy Center have led the largest multicenter series to date of magnetic resonance-guided laser interstitial thermal therapy (MRgLITT) recently published ...
Aug 31, 2023
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Study finds that improved access to mental health care is associated with reductions in suicide risk
Amid historically high suicide rates and mental health care provider shortages, new research from Incite at Columbia University suggests that interventions to alleviate mental health care access disparities can prevent unnecessary ...
May 1, 2023
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