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Alzheimer’s Study Targets Early Memory Loss Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine is enrolling participants for the first national study to detect Alzheimer’s disease in older people before they begin to have significant memory loss. Researchers will use imaging techniques and biomarker measures in blood and cerebrospinal fluid specially developed to track changes in the[…]

Northwestern Medicine Chief of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Named Noted researcher and clinician Gregory Dumanian will lead division Gregory Dumanian, MD, professor of plastic and reconstructive surgery, neurological and orthopaedic surgery, has been named chief of the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. Gregory A. Dumanian, MD, has been named chief of the Division of[…]

Dance Interest Group Offers Students Fun, Fitness Once a week, first- and second-year Feinberg students gather in the lobby of the Lurie Medical Research Center to learn different dance styles. Each week, the Dance Interest Group provides first- and second-year Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine medical students with an opportunity to put on their[…]

Seminar Highlights New Dietary Recommendations As chair of the 2010 U.S. Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, Feinberg Professor Linda Van Horn, PhD, RD, led the development of a set of recommendations provided to the United States Department of Agriculture and the Department of Health and Human Services. Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Professor Linda Van[…]

High Activity Staves Off Pounds, Especially For Women People will gain significantly less weight by middle age – especially women – if they engage in moderate to vigorous activity nearly every day of the week starting as young adults, according to new Northwestern Medicine research. Women particularly benefitted from high activity over 20 years, gaining[…]

Drug Prevents Post-traumatic Stress Syndrome Post-traumatic stress syndrome — when a severely stressful event triggers exaggerated and chronic fear — affects nearly 8 million people in the United States and is hard to treat. In a preclinical study, Northwestern Medicine scientists have for the first time identified the molecular cause of the debilitating condition and[…]

Clinical Psychology PhD Program Trains Students to Become Academic Psychologists The Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology —located in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (DPBS) — is one of only a few U.S. programs based in an academic medical center and the sole clinical psychology doctoral program housed[…]

Northwestern Psychologist’s Book Tells Howto Shed Anxiety for Life Americans’ danger detectors are cranked up way too high these days, but we don’t have to be held hostage by our anxiety, according to a new book on coping with stress by a Northwestern Medicine psychologist. The book, by Mark Reinecke, PhD, is titled “Little Ways[…]

Feinberg Students, Residents, Faculty, and Alumni Inducted into Prestigious Alpha Omega Alpha Twenty eight FeinbErg medical students were inducted into Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) — solidifying their position at the top of their medical school class. The Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) medical honor society recently welcomed its newest members at a ceremony hosted by Northwestern[…]