A new study sheds light--both literally and figuratively--on the intricate brain cell connections responsible for anxiety. Scientists at Stanford University recently used light to activate mouse neurons and precisely identify neural circuits that increase or decrease anxiety-related behaviors. Pinpointing the origin of anxiety brings psychiatric professionals closer to understanding anxiety disorders, the most common class of psychiatric disease. A research team led by Karl Deisseroth, associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and bioengineering, identified ...

DALLAS – March 10, 2011 – Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have identified a chemical compound that may eventually lead to a drug that fights cancers that are dependent on a particular anti-viral enzyme for growth. The researchers are testing the compound's effectiveness at fighting tumors in mice. If it is successful, they will then work to develop a drug based on the compound to combat pancreatic and non-small cell lung cancer, two cancer types in which this particular enzyme, TBK-1, often is required for cancer cell survival. "Our prediction is that ...

U.S. researchers who collaborate with international scientists are more likely to have their work cited than peers who do not utilize overseas expertise, according to a new study released this week by Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy. U.S. collaborators with international scientists are also more likely to receive greater recognition and produce work with greater impact. The study, "International Stem Cell Collaboration: How Disparate Policies Between the United States and the United Kingdom Impact Research," was authored by Kirstin Matthews, a fellow ...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A new study led by a University of Florida researcher uses tracking data of three shark species to provide the first evidence some of the fish swim directly to targeted locations. Researchers found tiger and thresher sharks showed the ability to orient at large distances, with tiger sharks swimming in direct paths at least 4 miles away and reaching specific resource areas about 30 miles away, said lead author Yannis Papastamatiou, a marine biologist in the division of ichthyology at the Florida Museum of Natural History on the UF campus. A research ...

Neena Singh, MD, PhD and colleagues at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have identified the first disease-specific biomarker for sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (sCJD), a universally fatal, degenerative brain disease for which there is no cure. sCJD is one of the causes of dementia and typically leads to death within a year of disease onset. The finding, published in the March 9th issue of PLoS ONE, a scientific journal produced by the Public Library of Science, provides a basis for developing a test to diagnosis sCJD while patients are still alive. ...

A breakthrough by scientists at The University of Nottingham could provide hope for any allergy sufferers who have ever had to choose between their health and their household pet. The team of immunologists led by Drs Ghaem-Maghami and Martinez-Pomares in the University's School of Molecular Medical Sciences, and funded by the charity Asthma UK, have identified a cell component which plays a key role in triggering allergic responses to cat dander. The discovery furthers our understanding of how the body's immune system identifies and reacts to allergens, which could ...

Pregnant non-smokers who breathe in the second-hand smoke of other people are at an increased risk of delivering stillborn babies or babies with defects, a study led by researchers at The University of Nottingham has found. The study, published in the April edition of the journal Pediatrics, found passive smoking increased the risk of still birth by almost one-quarter (23 per cent) and was linked to a 13 per cent increased risk of congenital birth defects. The findings underline the importance of discouraging expectant fathers from smoking around their pregnant partners ...

Johns Hopkins Children's Center researchers have discovered that most children with severe cerebral palsy have starkly asymmetric pelvic bones. The newly identified misalignment can affect how surgeries of the pelvis, spine and surrounding structures are performed, the researchers say. The study will be published online on March 10 in the Journal of Pediatric Orthopaedics. Previous studies of patients with cerebral palsy have reported asymmetry above the pelvis and misalignment of the hips, but this new report, the researchers say, is the first one to show misalignment ...

From neurosurgery to bar code readers, lasers have been used in a myriad of applications since they were first introduced in the late 1950's. Now, with the work being done in Jeff Gelles' Lab at Brandeis University, researchers have developed a way to use lasers to study the splicing of pre-messenger RNA molecules, an essential process in creating proteins to sustain advanced organisms, including human life. This process of splicing is carried out by a cellular micro-machine called the spliceosome. "Understanding how these micro-machines function inside the cell is important ...

Providing further understanding of the link between low birth weights and obesity later in life, researchers found nutritionally deprived newborns are "programmed" to eat more because they develop less neurons in the region of the brain that controls food intake, according to an article published today in the journal, Brain Research. The study by a team of researchers at Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center (LA BioMed) suggests that overeating is programmed at the level of stem cells before birth when the mother has poor or inadequate ...

At Aegis, we are always on the forefront of using the latest technologies to create different types of applications and we would like to give an overview of the new technology from Microsoft called Silverlight. Silverlight is a comprehensive development platform that assist in the creation of interactive applications that may be web based, for desktops or even mobile handsets. Silverlight is a kind of free plugin and since it is based on .Net framework therefore it compatible across various operating systems, browsers and platforms. In a way Silverlight frees any kind of ...

BMW of North America, LLC, has announced its Best Dealership Awards for the year. It has also announced the annual "2011 Center of Excellence" honors, which are given to the top performing BMW dealerships in the US. The "2011 Center of Excellence" is awarded to the US dealerships that exhibit outstanding performance in the areas of customer satisfaction, outstanding brand representation and operational excellence. Out of the 338 BMW dealers nationwide, BMW awarded thirty two dealers for their extraordinary services and performance. Rick Hendrick Imports of Charleston, ...

Richard P Brown, MD, and Patricia Gerbarg, MD, integrative medicine experts, and co-authors of the award-winning How To Use Herbs, Nutrients, and Yoga in Mental Health Care (WW Norton) with Philip Muskin, MD, present two full-day workshops: "Renewing Your Spiritual Growth: What to Do When Your Practice Feels Stale" Thursday, March 24, and "Just Breathe! Part 1 and 2: Integrating Breathing Techniques into Psychotherapy," Friday, March 25, 2011 at the annual Psychotherapy Networker Symposium at the Omni Shoreham Hotel, 2500 Calvert St. NW, in Washington, D.C. Drs. Brown ...

The new website came as a necessary tool to inform Forex traders about the differences between the C2FX Forex Trade Sheet and forex signal service providers. "There is a difference between the two," says Ross Yamashita, partner of C2FX. "Forex signals are sent out randomly and are very hard to trade because you never know when they're coming through. With our Forex trade sheet, we send out our trade between 4:15 - 4:30 pm (Pacific Time) and the information is good for the next 24 hours." This advanced release gives Forex traders an edge above signals because they ...

City-Discovery.com highlights its Milan offerings in anticipation of increased interest from travelers leading up to the World's Fair Exposition in 2015. The online sightseeing tours retailer has a diverse range of products for the city with Skip-the-Line guided tours cited as being the most popular. Other activities include shopping tours, day trips and excursions to nearby areas, food and wine experiences, guided city walks and museum visits. Winning the 2015 World Expo hosting bid is only one of the significant markers of Milan's recent revival during the past couple ...

The 17th edition of the Golf Yellow Pages, often referred to as the National Golf Business Directory, is being delivered to public, private, and resort golf courses throughout the United States. The 2011 Golf Yellow Pages is the only national directory in a print handbook format and is available today for purchase through http://www.golfyellowpages.com and http://www.amazon.com. An indispensable industry resource, Golf Yellow Pages contains contact information for 16,431 golf course facilities, key golf businesses and suppliers organized by category, plus new golf businesses ...

Foremay, Inc., a leader of technology innovation in solid state drives and one of the world¡¯s Top 10 SSD OEMs, today announced that its OC177 family SATA SSD Disk on Module (DOM) is in production. The SATA DOM is equipped with a standard SATA 3.0 Gb/s interface with backward support of SATA 1.5 Gb/s as well. The flash disk module has a miniature footprint of only 2.5"x 1.7", but is empowered with a high performance engine ¨C with sustained read/write speeds up to 270 MB/s. It also has high random IOPS for read/write speeds up to 25,000/15,000 with capacity up to 240GB. ...

Digiarty, a professional developer and publisher of iPhone games, is expected to release its flagship tower defense game PetsWar in the middle of March, available for the iPhone/iPod touch and iPad. In this game, players take the role of the cow boy whose country has been widely destroyed by evil wizard. To protect your people and restore the beauty of your homeland, you have to make use of your capability with the help from pets and manipulate to build up sufficient forces to drive back the monsters controlled by wizard. "We endeavor to create PetsWar as a fantastic ...

Aunsoft Studio, the multimedia software provider, announces that Aunsoft Blu-ray Ripper now newly supports the latest table of Motorola Xoom. This Blu-ray/DVD to Motorola Xoom Converter offers users the ultimate solution to rip MKB V20, BD+ protected Blu-ray and DVD movies to Motorola Xoom friendly video format. Audio extracting from BD/DVD videos and subtitles hard burning are perfectly supported by Aunsoft Blu-ray Ripper. 2011 is the tablet year in digital market. As the most competitive tablet, Motorola Xoom has a slightly larger screen than the iPad's 9.7-inch, and ...

Armorlogic, a leading developer of web application firewall and load balancing software, today announced that its newest Profense Web Application Firewall version 3.0 is immediately available for trial and purchase. The powerful new version of the Profense WAF adds SSL Client Authentication and HTTP request throttling to its broad suite of features and functionality including protection against all the OWASP Top Ten vulnerabilities. SSL Client Authentication is increasingly important as governments and larger institutions look for new ways of improving web application ...

The Power of Passion Tour will stop in LA on March 15 during its late winter early/early spring run throughout over 30 US cities. Acclaimed photographer and marketing whiz Sandy Puc' and internationally renowned wedding photographer Jerry Ghionis will share their vast knowledge of photography and inform audiences of practical marketing tactics during the Power of Passion Tour. Audiences continued to be captivated by Puc's and Ghionis' positive energy during the tour. Techniques, tips and tricks focusing on wedding photography and boudoir portraiture are the main highlights ...

Merrill Corporation, the leading global provider of technology-enabled services for the legal, financial, health care, real estate and other corporate markets, announced today the availability of a local language interface of its virtual data room (VDR) services in Russian. Merrill DataSite has been actively involved in the Russian & CIS markets for some time now and anticipates that the need for Virtual Data Room (VDR) services will grow significantly in these markets in coming years. Merrill have completed the full localization of its virtual data room interface into ...

Custom Oil Paintings from http://www.PaintingsToGo.com Enhance Kozy Shack Offices. Organizations turn to custom oil paintings or oil painting reproductions for a fresh look in their corporate offices. For many companies looking to add a distinctive, rich look and feel to their corporate offices, retail environments and other spaces, the answer lies in custom oil paintings on canvas. Kozy Shack Enterprises, Inc. President and CEO Robert E. Striano took this approach to pay homage to Kozy Shack Founder Vincent Grupposo in each of Kozy Shack's manufacturing plants and ...

ComplianceBridge, Inc., a provider of web-based policy and procedure management software announced an expert event covering best practices and tips for improving policy and procedure management in organizations. Industry expert, Thomas Kay, CEO of Pinnacle Intertech Inc., will share best practices to effectively manage policies and procedures to protect your organization and its assets. Mr. Kay and his company are the forefront of IT Governance, SOX and IT compliance and they have tremendous experience in designing and implementing policy and procedure processes for small, ...

WHO: Totally (In)Appropriate Radio Host Natasha Rennie and Our featured guest - The Beautiful Model TASHA FORD WHAT: TASHA FORD's Career is filled with everything you need to know about the modeling industry. You don't want to miss this sexy, exciting and informative show! DATE: Thursday, March 10, 2011 TIME: 9:00pm (EST) - 10:00 pm (EST) CALL-IN #: 714.510.3742 LINK: blogtalkradio.com/inappropriate Show Description: The celebrity edition of Totally (In)Appropriate will have an exclusive interview with TASHA FORD - the HOT MODEL who has graced ...