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  • Physiology

  • Events 

    Tuesday, September 21, 2010 | 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM

    The Scientific Connection between Optimal Health and Pleasure : An Evening with Christiane Northrup

    Speaker: Christiane Northrup (Christiane Northrup, Inc.)

    A leading proponent of medicine and healing that acknowledges the unity of the mind and body discusses the vital connection between pleasure and health.

    Friday, March 25, 2011 | 7:30 AM - 5:30 PM

    Music, Science & Medicine: Frontiers in Biomedical Research & Clinical Applications

    Organizers: Dorita S. Berger (The Music Therapy Clinic), György Buzsáki (Rutgers University), Claudius Conrad (Harvard Medical School), Matthew S. Goodwin (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Joseph LeDoux (New York University), Aniruddh Patel (The Neurosciences Institute), Paula Tallal (Rutgers University), Concetta Tomaino (Beth Abraham Family of Health Services) and Mark Jude Tramo (Harvard Medical School)

    This conference will foster dialogue between clinical music and research on physiological function (neurocognitive mechanisms, hormonal and metabolic responses, pain control, motor functions), and address therapeutic areas where music and physiology can synergize.

  • Past Events

    Tuesday, May 25, 2010 | 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

    Estrogen Receptor Signaling in the Brain: A Trip Down Memory Lane

    Speakers: Enikö Kramár (University of California, Irvine), Feng Liu (Pfizer), Bruce McEwen (Rockefeller University), and John Morrison (Mount Sinai School of Medicine)

    Estrogens play a role in memory processes, yet molecular mechanisms and the role of estrogen receptors remain unclear. This meeting discusses estrogen signaling for memory formation and advances in dissecting out the pathways underlying these effects.

    Wednesday, May 19, 2010 | 9:00 AM - 5:30 PM

    HIV/AIDS: Vaccines and alternate strategies for treatment and prevention

    Organizers: Sarah Schlesinger (The Rockefeller University), Yegor Voronin (Global HIV Vaccine Enterprise) and Jennifer Henry (The New York Academy of Sciences)

    Challenges in developing a vaccine against HIV / AIDS infection include genetic diversity of the virus, and predictive models of infection. This symposium tackles each challenge in turn, and covers other mechanisms to reduce HIV transmission.

    Tuesday, May 18, 2010 | 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM

    The Microbiome and Disease

    Speakers: Jeffrey I. Gordon (Washington University School of Medicine) and Ramnik Xavier (Massachusetts General Hospital)

    Genomic and metabolic foundations of gut host-microbial relationships affect our predisposition to obesity, cardiovascular disease and malnutrition. This meeting explores the microbiome and its role in these important health issues.

    May 9 - 10, 2010

    Innate Inflammation as the Common Pathway of Risk Factors Leading to Transient Ischemic Attacks and Stroke: Pathophysiology and Potential Interventions

    Organizers: Gregory J. del Zoppo (University of Washington School of Medicine) and Philip B. Gorelick (University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago School of Medicine)

    This 1.5-day conference will address recent advancements, challenges, and future directions in research studying innate inflammation as a risk factor leading to transient ischemic attacks and stroke, and their potential implications with respect to therapy and prevention.

  • Publications 

    Annals

    Women's Health and Disease

    Edited by George Creatsas and George Mastorakos (University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece)

    This volume includes manuscripts from the "The 7th Athens Congress on Women's Health and Disease," which was held in Athens, Greece on September 11-13, 2008.

    Forthcoming issue

    Annals

    Reproductive Aging

    Edited by Maxine Weinstein (Center for Population and Health, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.) and Kathleen O’Connor (Department of Anthropology, Biocultural Anthropology and Biodemography Laboratory, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington)

    This Annals volume presents manuscripts stemming from the workshop “Biodemography of Reproductive Aging,” held on June 5–6, 2009 in Washington, DC.

    Volume 1204

    eBriefing

    Estrogen Receptor Signaling in the Brain: A Trip Down Memory Lane

    Speakers: Enikö Kramár (University of California, Irvine), Feng Liu (Pfizer), Bruce McEwen (The Rockefeller University), and John Morrison (Mount Sinai School of Medicine)

    Organizers: Feng Liu (Pfizer) and Jennifer Henry (The New York Academy of Sciences)

    Estrogens play a role in memory processes, yet molecular mechanisms and the role of estrogen receptors remain unclear. This meeting discussed estrogen signaling for memory formation and advances in dissecting out the pathways underlying these effects.

    eBriefing

    HIV/AIDS: Vaccines and Alternate Strategies for Treatment and Prevention

    Organizers: Sarah Schlesinger (The Rockefeller University), Yegor Voronin (Global HIV Vaccine Enterprise), and Jennifer Henry (The New York Academy of Sciences)

    Challenges in developing a vaccine against HIV/AIDS infection include genetic diversity of the virus and predictive models of infection. This symposium tackled each challenge in turn, and covered other mechanisms to reduce HIV transmission.

    eBriefing

    Unmet Needs in Pain Therapeutics: Neuropathic Pain and Fibromyalgia

    Organizers: Ildiko Antal (Bristol-Myers Squibb), Chad E. Beyer (University of Colorado School of Medicine), Mark R. Bowlby (Merck Research Laboratories),  Beth Winkelstein (University of Pennsylvania), and Jennifer Henry (The New York Academy of Sciences)

    This symposium addressed clinical applications and new pain mechanisms for the treatment of chronic pain syndromes, and provided an update on the progress and barriers to developing effective preclinical models of pain, in particular fibromyalgia.

  • Webinar Archives

    Webinar Archive
    October 27, 2009

    Is Alzheimer's Disease Type 3 Diabetes?

    What is the connection between dysregulated neuronal insulin signaling and Alzheimer's disease? In a recent Academy webinar, some researchers argued that the neurodegenerative disease should be considered a type of diabetes.