Pain researchers at the School of Medicine have shown in rodents that they can block receptors on brain cells that are responsible for the negative emotions associated with pain. The findings could lead to new approaches to treating pain.
New research from Arts & Sciences has linked participation in team sports to larger hippocampal volumes in children and less depression in boys ages 9 to 11. The brain region plays an important role in memory and stress. Undergraduate Lisa Gorham is lead author.
Researcher Krista Milich, in Arts & Sciences, travels the Americas, collecting feces from nonhuman primates to determine the risk of animals acting as Zika reservoirs.
Jai Rudra, at the McKelvey School of Engineering, is working to develop a therapeutic option that would prevent opiates from crossing the blood-brain barrier, preventing the high that abusers seek.
To ensure broad communication, certain key university policies are published annually in The Record. These policies are intended to promote and support a positive working and learning environment. The policies also are available on the Human Resources website.
Nancy Berg, professor in Arts & Sciences, has co-edited a book, “What We Talk about When We Talk about Hebrew,” exploring the changing status of Hebrew in the United States. Read about this and more on the Bookshelf.
Elijah Thimsen, of the McKelvey School of Engineering, will study how chemical reactions occurring in low-temperature plasma move toward a superlocal equilibrium state with a five-year, $500,000 CAREER award from the National Science Foundation.
Junior Ruoyi Gan and senior Madeline Halpern are representing the Sam Fox School in Varsity Art XXIII. Hosted by Art St. Louis, the annual exhibition features work by undergraduate and graduate students from St. Louis college and university-level art programs.
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Elijah Thimsen, of the McKelvey School of Engineering, will study how chemical reactions occurring in low-temperature plasma move toward a superlocal equilibrium state with a five-year, $500,000 CAREER award from the National Science Foundation.
Junior Ruoyi Gan and senior Madeline Halpern are representing the Sam Fox School in Varsity Art XXIII. Hosted by Art St. Louis, the annual exhibition features work by undergraduate and graduate students from St. Louis college and university-level art programs.