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Sex-Specific Scoring Could Alter Mild Cognitive Impairment Diagnoses

Accounting for gender on memory tests may change the diagnosis for 20 percent of those currently diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment (MCI), with possibly more women and fewer men being diagnosed with MCI, according...

October 10, 2019

3 min read

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Tiana Reyes ’19 Explores Cancer Biology

Tiana Reyes ’19 has a very personal reason for doing undergraduate research in cancer biology and racial health disparities: her mother died from breast cancer when she was 11. “That fueled my interest...

October 9, 2019

2 min read

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10th Annual Meeting of the Minds Symposium: Brain Injury and Coma

Stony Brook University’s Neurosciences Institute presents the 10th Annual Meeting of the Minds Symposium: Brain Injury and Coma on Friday, October 25, from 8 am to 12:30 pm in the Medical and Translational Research...

September 26, 2019

2 min read

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Mental Health Comedy Tour, October 17

On Thursday evening, October 17, Stony Brook University is sponsoring a free Mental Health Comedy Tour that features standup comedy from professional comedians who suffer from serious mental health issues. The Headliner...

September 25, 2019

1 min read

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SBU Urges Congress to Fund More Oral Health Training Programs and Increase Funding for Dental Research

On Wednesday, September 18, Dr. Dan Colosi, Associate Professor in the Stony Brook School of Dental Medicine and Director of the Division of Diagnostic Imaging, visited Capitol Hill in conjunction with the American...

September 25, 2019

2 min read

Principal Investigator Christine DeLorenzo

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Researchers Receive $4.3 Million Grant to Develop Next-Generation Alzheimer’s Treatments

Stony Brook’s Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Psychiatry are teaming up with the NIH on a $4.3 million research grant to develop treatments that can potentially arrest and reverse memory loss in...

September 24, 2019

3 min read

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Join Bestselling Author Marci Shimoff for Women’s Health Day

Learn from Stony Brook Medicine experts as they share the latest information, research and thinking about topics that concern women most at Women’s Health Day on Saturday, September 28, from 8:30 am to 2 pm at Advanced...

September 23, 2019

1 min read

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Grant Funds Pioneering Research to Create 3D Digital Pathology

A $1.14 million grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to research 3D computational pathology has been awarded to a team led by Fusheng Wang, associate professor in the Departments of Biomedical Informatics and...

September 23, 2019

2 min read

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New Anti-Cancer Therapies Could Result from MicroRNA Technology

New anti-cancer therapies could result from a technology that manipulates microRNAs (miRNAs) developed by Jingfang Ju, a biochemist and Professor in the Department of Pathology at the Renaissance School of Medicine at...

September 18, 2019

3 min read

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Multiple Agents of Tick-Borne Diseases Found on Long Island

Multiple agents capable of causing human disease are present in three species of ticks in Long Island, according to a study published in mBio, a journal of the American Society for Microbiology.

September 16, 2019

3 min read

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Study Links 9/11 Responders to Cognitive Impairment

A new study of 9/11 World Trade Center responders led by Stony Brook University reveals that post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is strongly associated with onset of mild cognitive impairment (MCI). The study...

September 9, 2019

3 min read

Community Medicine

Teen with Rare Abdominal Blood Clot Heads Home

There are a lot of words you could use to describe Thomas Spiotta — hysterically funny, joyful, loving, an entertainer, and a Special Olympian are just a few offered by his mother, Jane. But these days, Thomas and...

September 4, 2019

3 min read

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White Coat Ceremony Welcomes New Medical Students

White lab coats – traditional attire for healthcare professionals – were donned proudly by the incoming class of 136 medical students at Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University as they officially became...

August 22, 2019

3 min read

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Can Machine Learning Awaken Coma Patients?

I. Memming Park, Stony Brook’s 2019 Discovery Prize winner, built his first artificial neural network when he was in middle school. That long-held interest in how the brain works influenced his award-winning research...

August 22, 2019

3 min read

Community Medicine

Volunteer Baby Cuddlers Help Infants Thrive

Stony Brook Children’s Hospital’s Baby Cuddlers are trained volunteers who visit babies while they’re under care. During their three- to four-hour shifts, the volunteers rock the babies, sing lullabies and provide that...

August 19, 2019

2 min read

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Ribbon-Cutting Celebrates Stony Brook Eastern Long Island Hospital

A crowd of more than 100 supporters gathered on July 23 to celebrate Stony Brook Eastern Long Island Hospital (SBELIH) joining the Stony Brook Medicine healthcare system to improve access to advanced medical care for...

July 23, 2019

4 min read

Stony Brook University: Computer Engineering IV Ramakishnan, Associate Dean of Research (CEAS) and Professor of Computer Science and Petar Djuric, Chair, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering received a $3M NIH grant.

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Scientists Awarded $3.2 Million to Improve Delivery Room Decisions

Stony Brook scientists have received major NIH funding to investigate a pioneering approach to fetal monitoring that could improve outcomes in the delivery room. A multi-disciplinary team led by the College of...

July 18, 2019

5 min read

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Gender-Based Medicine Can Enhance Treatment

Individual patients differ in their responses to treatment, and some of those differences are caused by the patient’s gender and hormones. That was the message delivered by Anat Biegon, PhD, Professor of Radiology and...

July 8, 2019

3 min read

Category: Medicine

Sex-Specific Scoring Could Alter Mild Cognitive Impairment Diagnoses

Tiana Reyes ’19 Explores Cancer Biology

10th Annual Meeting of the Minds Symposium: Brain Injury and Coma

Mental Health Comedy Tour, October 17

SBU Urges Congress to Fund More Oral Health Training Programs and Increase Funding for Dental Research

Researchers Receive $4.3 Million Grant to Develop Next-Generation Alzheimer’s Treatments

Join Bestselling Author Marci Shimoff for Women’s Health Day

Grant Funds Pioneering Research to Create 3D Digital Pathology

Study Links 9/11 Responders to Cognitive Impairment

Teen with Rare Abdominal Blood Clot Heads Home

White Coat Ceremony Welcomes New Medical Students

Can Machine Learning Awaken Coma Patients?

Volunteer Baby Cuddlers Help Infants Thrive

Ribbon-Cutting Celebrates Stony Brook Eastern Long Island Hospital

Scientists Awarded $3.2 Million to Improve Delivery Room Decisions

Gender-Based Medicine Can Enhance Treatment

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