In Print
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Focus:
Circadian Rhythms May Distinguish Alzheimer's Disease
Using circadian rhythms, David Harper and his colleagues have differentiated between patients with Alzheimer's and those with another dementia. The method could lead to more effective diagnosis as well as better treatment for the sleep disturbances that accompany these disorders. Sleep irregularities are often the cause for institutionalization because the patients become impossible to care for in the home.
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Mentations
On The Brain
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Headlines
Study Finds that Moderate Drinkers May Have Lower Risk of Mortality After a Heart Attack
Upcoming
Psychiatry Forum:
Genomics and Human Behavior— How the Human Genome Project Will Impact Psychiatry and Mental Health
Joseph Coyle, McLean Hospital and others
Tuesday, May 1
6:30-9:00 p.m.
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Spotlight
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HST Students Devote Day to Community Service
Health Sciences and Technology student Deborah Sternlight, hauls shrubs for planting at the McInnis House in Jamaica Plain. Her task was part of HST's annual Community Service Day.
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Student Scene
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Panel Sifts for Gold in Human Genome
An April 5 Harvard Health Caucus program on commercializing the human genome staked out some of the more promising territory for profitable ventures. Here Heather Ettinger mines the panel discussion for the weightier nuggets.
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Call for Writers
Are you a student and a natural writer with few outlets for your creative mind and journalistic eye? Consider writing for Focus and WebWeekly. Several of our veteran columnists will be graduating this year so we're looking for MD and PhD students to fill their vacancies. The job requires producing three to six columns a year for the Forum section of Focus and Student Scene section of WebWeekly. Candidates must be skilled and motivated writers though do not have to be previously published. The biweekly Focus goes out to 18,000 faculty and staff across HMS and the affiliated hospitals, and every issue of WebWeekly receives thousands of visitors. If interested, please contact editor Robert Neal, 432-0448 or e-mail rneal@hms.harvard.edu.
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