Archives by: Mohini Banerjee
Customising informed consent procedures for people with schizophrenia in India
By Sudipto Chatterjee et al.
Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
March 2015
Abstract
Background
There is little information on how the ethical and procedural challenges involved in ... Read more »
FAAH genetic variation enhances fronto-amygdala function in mouse and human
By Iva Dincheva et al.
Nature Communications
March 3, 2015
Abstract
Cross-species studies enable rapid translational discovery and produce the broadest impact when both mechanism and phenotype ... Read more »
One Brain Network for All Mental Illness
The Neurocritic
February 19, 2015
What do schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, major depression, addiction, obsessive compulsive disorder, and anxiety have in common? A loss of gray matter ... Read more »
Autism Detection Improved by Multimodal Neuroimaging
The University of Alabama at Birmingham
Newswise
March 6, 2015
In an ancient Indian parable, a group of blind men touches different parts of a large animal ... Read more »
Enduring and Emerging Challenges of Informed Consent
By Christine Grady
The New England Journal of Medicine
2015
The author summarizes emerging standards for informed consent as the underpinning of ethical research in humans.
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Genetic Studies Yield New Insights into Obesity
By Dr. Francis Collins
The National Institutes of Health
February 19, 2015
Today, we hear a great deal about which foods to eat and which to avoid ... Read more »
Your genes help determine how much money you save
By Matt Phillips
Quartz
February 25, 2015
Economists have long theorized about why people save. The most-famous theory, the so-called “life-cycle” theory of savings put forward by ... Read more »
Epigenetic modification of the oxytocin receptor gene influences the perception of anger and fear in the human brain
Meghan H. Puglia, Travis S. Lillard, James P. Morris, and Jessica J. Connelly
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of ... Read more »
A Genetic Nexus of Obesity and Smoking
By Eric Sarlin
National Institute on Drug Abuse
October 2014
"The hypothesis that obesity and nicotine addiction have common genetic and biological roots is buttressed by a ... Read more »
Digital Multimedia A New Approach for Informed Consent?
By Alan R. Tait & Terri Voepel-Lewis
JAMA
Vol. 313, No. 5
2015
This Viewpoint discusses use of digital multimedia as a strategy to enhance study participants’ understanding ... Read more »
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