Media Coverage
The work done by Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine faculty members (and even some students) is regularly highlighted in newspapers, online media outlets and more. Below you’ll find links to articles and videos of Feinberg in the news.
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National Geographic
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Your Aging Brain Will Be In Better Shape If You’ve Taken Music Lessons
Neuroscientist Nina Kraus of Northwestern University in Chicago found still more positive effects on older adults of early musical training—this time, in the realm of hearing and communication. She measured the electrical activity in the auditory brainstems of 44 adults, ages 55 to 76, as they responded to the synthesised speech syllable “da.” Although none of the subjects had played a musical instrument in 40 years, those who had trained the longest—between four and fourteen years— responded the fastest.
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U.S. News and World Report
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College Students Seem to Take Longer to Recover From Concussion
College students seem to take longer to recover from concussion than the average in the United States, a new study suggests. Researchers reviewed the medical charts of 128 students who suffered a concussion during the 2014-2015 academic year at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill. Their average age was 20. “Recovering from a concussion requires active rest and refraining from excessive physical and cognitive stimuli, such as contact sports, reading, writing and even the need for limitation of watching television and online activities,” lead investigator Dr. Prakash Jayabalan, said in an association news release. Jayabalan is an attending physician at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, and an assistant professor at Northwestern’s Feinberg School of Medicine.
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HealthDay
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College Students Seem to Take Longer to Recover From Concussion
College students seem to take longer to recover from concussion than the average in the United States, a new study suggests. Researchers reviewed the medical charts of 128 students who suffered a concussion during the 2014-2015 academic year at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill. Their average age was 20. “Recovering from a concussion requires active rest and refraining from excessive physical and cognitive stimuli, such as contact sports, reading, writing and even the need for limitation of watching television and online activities,” lead investigator Dr. Prakash Jayabalan, said in an association news release. Jayabalan is an attending physician at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, and an assistant professor at Northwestern’s Feinberg School of Medicine.
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TODAY
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Brain Power TODAY: Scientists study the healing power of sex
Laura Streicher, clinical associate professor of obstetric and gynecology at Feinberg, says about 36 percent of people report having low libido. Contrary to popular belief, the phenomenon is caused by brain activity, not a hormone imbalance.
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Crain’s Chicago Business
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Parents of preemies will soon have an app, courtesy of Prentice doc
Craig Garfield, a neonatal hospitalist at Northwestern’s Prentice Women’s Hospital and an attending physician at Lurie Children’s Hospital, is developing an app that directly connects new parents to real-time information about their babies in intensive care. It’s the first app of its kind, according to Garfield. He’s working on it with Young Seok Lee, an adjunct professor at Northwestern’s Feinberg School of Medicine who has a Ph.D. in industrial engineering.
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The Washington Post
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Why egg freezing might work for women who want some semblance of work-life balance
Both the biological clock and the enormous demands of their careers may drive women to leave jobs in medicine to find work-life balance. Taking the biological clock partly out of the equation with egg freezing may help chill the burnout trend, allowing more women to stay in the medical field and continue practicing what they trained so hard to do.
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Chicago Tribune
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How long has your doctor been on duty? Groups protest idea of 28-hour shifts
Dr. Karl Bilimoria put it this way: “If you had your surgery in the morning on a Monday and Monday evening you had a complication that required you going back to the operating room at midnight, would you want the on-call person there or the team that was there and did your first operation in the morning who knew everything that happened and had a relationship with you? “Things get lost when doctors hand things off to each other,” said Bilimoria, director of the Surgical Outcomes and Quality Improvement Center at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine.
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CBS News
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Can’t sleep? Camping could be the cure, study suggests
There is evidence, for example, that exposure to morning light is associated with appetite and weight control, said Dr. Phyllis Zee.
She said the new experiments are important because they demonstrate just how powerful exposure to natural light — and darkness — can be.
“Just two days of summer camping reset people’s clocks,” said Zee, director of the Center for Circadian and Sleep Medicine at Northwestern University in Chicago.
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WebMD
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Time Outdoors May Deliver Better Sleep
Outside, “you are pretty constrained by natural light-dark cycles and the intensity and light spectrum that you see in nature,” says Dr. Phyllis Zee, director for the Center for Circadian and Sleep Medicine at Northwestern University who was not involved with the study. Natural light, particularly morning sunshine, which is enriched with blue light, has a very powerful influence on setting internal clocks
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U.S. News and World Report
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Time Outdoors May Deliver Better Sleep
There is evidence, for example, that exposure to morning light is associated with appetite and weight control, said Dr. Phyllis Zee.
She said the new experiments are important because they demonstrate just how powerful exposure to natural light — and darkness — can be.
“Just two days of summer camping reset people’s clocks,” said Zee, director of the Center for Circadian and Sleep Medicine at Northwestern University in Chicago.
