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LabBook November 16, 2012
View of downtown Chicago from the 7th floor Sky Lobby in the new Center for Care and Discovery Welcome to LabBook, our weekly roundup of University of Chicago Medicine & Biological Sciences...
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Psychiatry Professor Leads by Example on Studying Gambling Addiction
Jon Grant, MD, JD, MPHSam Cholke from DNAinfo interviewed Jon Grant, director of UChicago’s new Center of Excellence in Gambling Research, about the continuing need for gambling addiction services in...
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UChicago’s Gambling Research Center Focuses on Preventing Addiction
Illinois legalized video gambling in 2009, and each year it seems that some politician proposes casino gambling as the solution to the state’s financial ills. And with the proliferation of legal...
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LabBook July 5, 2013
Welcome to LabBook, our weekly roundup of University of Chicago Medicine & Biological Sciences research news from around campus and the internet. Each Friday, LabBook will recap the week on the...
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Your Friends Are Making You Drunk
Research shows that people report feeling more intoxicated when they’re around others who are drinking alcohol—even if they haven’t been drinking themselves. Alcohol is described as a social lubricant...
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LabBook July 12, 2013
Sadly, our favorite old tree in front of Billings Hospital with the branch that looked like a bench seat broke during one of last month’s thunderstorms. Welcome to LabBook, our weekly roundup of...
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Do We Need Rehab Programs for Internet Addiction?
Is internet use an addiction worthy of being classified with drugs, alcohol, sex or gambling? One hospital in Pennsylvania thinks so. Starting next Monday, the Behavioral Health Services at Bradford...
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A Matter of Trust: How the Brain Processes Reputation
Images of the brain showing activation levels in the caudate, the red & yellow areas highlighted in the center. We make a lot of decisions that hinge on how much we trust another person. Can you...
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LabBook September 6, 2013
Dr. Husam Balkhy, left, operates at the da Vinci surgical system console while his team works with the patient below the robotic arms, about 10 feet away, during cardiac surgery at the Center for Care...
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Large Study of Teens Builds a Blueprint for Staying Out of Trouble
Gun violence in Chicago made international news again this month after a gunman armed with an assault rifle opened fire on a crowd at a park in the Back of the Yards neighborhood, injuring 13 people,...
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LabBook September 27, 2013
Chicago Blackhawks general manager Stan Bowman makes sure the Stanley Cup is positioned just right on its visit to the hospital today. The cup is making its last rounds of the city before the Hawks’...
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Finding Common Ground on Eating Disorders
By Matt Wood In the field of pediatric eating disorder studies, you might think that the one thing on which researchers could agree would be how to determine the appropriate body weight for a child....
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Permission to Be Parents: Support Groups for Families Dealing with an Eating...
Parents of a child with anorexia nervosa often feel embarrassed or isolated, like they’re on their own dealing with this difficult illness. For decades, the first line of treatment for an adolescent...
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Excoriation disorder: When scratching becomes more than a nervous habit
Many of us have nervous, absent-minded habits we wish we could quit: knuckle cracking, nail biting, hair twirling and the like. These behaviors are usually harmless—we catch ourselves or a friend...
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UChicago researchers receive $3.5 million from NIMH to transform diagnosis of...
Emerging evidence suggests that schizophrenia and bipolar disorders are related, and could possibly lie on a spectrum. Artist Vincent Van Gogh is thought to have had schizophrenia, but even today...
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In young girls, impulsivity and binge eating predicts future weight gain: A...
Sweets and snacks. Photo courtesy Andrea Anastasakis, via Flickr. It’s a stark reminder of how behaviors acquired early in our lives can have lasting effects. A recent study published in the journal...
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Improving children’s health by lowering stress in pregnant moms
Kate Keenan, PhD Kate Keenan, PhD, professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, has spent her career trying to understand psychological problems in low-income populations,...
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Should all adults be screened for depression?
16 million adults in the U.S. experience episodes of depressive disorder, with pregnant/postpartum women and the elderly particularly vulnerable. (Image courtesy Pixabay). It’s perfectly normal to have...
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People with “rage” disorder twice as likely to have a latent toxoplasmosis...
The protozoan Toxoplasma gondii, tissue cyst in brain (Photo: D. Ferguson, Oxford University) Individuals with a psychiatric disorder involving recurrent bouts of extreme, impulsive anger—road rage,...
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People with anger disorder have decreased connectivity between regions of the...
Regions of the white matter skeleton in which connectivity in IED subjects was significantly lower than healthy controls (Image: Lee, et al, Neuropsychopharmacology) Less integrity and density in the...
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