by William Jester | Nov 10, 2022 | Community, News
Parents can transmit a genetic risk for alcohol problems to their children not only directly, but also indirectly via genetically influenced aspects of the home environment, such as marital discord or divorce, according to a Rutgers researcher. The study, published...
by William Jester | Nov 9, 2022 | Community, News
Vikas Nanda has spent more than two decades studying the intricacies of proteins, the highly complex substances present in all living organisms. The Rutgers scientist has long contemplated how the unique patterns of amino acids that compose proteins determine whether...
by William Jester | Nov 9, 2022 | Community, News
Danielle Dick, a professor of psychiatry at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School who leads the Rutgers Addiction Research Center, has spent decades hunting genes that contribute to drug and alcohol addiction. While much remains unknown, improving technology has sped the...
by William Jester | Nov 8, 2022 | Community, News
The prognosis for the sick child, who hadn’t responded to standard treatment, was dire. But a team of Rutgers physicians believed there might be hope despite the conventional wisdom against pursuing any further treatment. What happened over the course of the next few...
by William Jester | Nov 7, 2022 | News
Please read Dr. MacDowell’s article in Current Opinion in Neurobiology titled, “A Goldilocks theory of cognitive control: Balancing precision and efficiency with low-dimensional control states.” The world is rich; we are faced with a wide variety of...
