"The human brain is the most complicated thing in the universe, " says John Van Horn, a research associate professor in psychology and brain sciences at Dartmouth College.
"The best you can give for a person with dementia is recognition of the person they were and are and be compassionate in your communication, " said Darby Morhardt, a research associate professor at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine's Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer's Disease Center.
"Feel sorry for them, because they're doing this impulsive, destructive thing that won't help them in the long run, " says Simine Vazire, a research psychologist and associate professor at Washington University in St.
Led by Rajesh Narendarn, project principal investigator and associate professor of radiology, the research team recruited healthy young men and women from a range of ethnicities to boost their Omega-3 intake with supplements for six months.
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The research is a good and descriptive small-scale study, said Jon Vernick, an associate professor and co-director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research, but it also is a good reminder that public health experts need to do more of this kind of research.
Abraham is currently on leave from the University of Maryland, where she is a faculty associate in the Maryland Population Research Center and a professor in the Joint Program in Survey Methodology.
Huff is a research associate at Harvard in the Department of Astronomy and a Professor Emeritus in Policy Studies at University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth.
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Those who heard angry attacks had a harder time remembering later what the customer said or calling on working memory to solve problems, compared with those who heard respectful exchanges, according to the research, co-authored by Amir Erez, an associate professor of management at the University of Florida.
He currently teaches and conducts research on macroeconomics, political economy and development with the rank of Associate Professor at the Whittemore School of the University of New Hampshire.
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In 2010, Johan Bollen, an associate professor at Indiana University and two other professors published research showing how using Twitter could with more than 85% accuracy predict the daily up and down readings of the Dow.
While the supposition that men think about sex more than women isn't new, the paper's findings have wider implication for attitudes toward public health and how patients respond to doctors' advice, said Dr. Stacy Tessler Lindau, an associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology and geriatric medicine who spearheaded the research.
"This implies that the main purpose of establishing CIC...still has a long way to go, " said Friedrich Wu, an adjunct associate professor at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore who has written several research papers on the fund.
The research was led by Paola Sebastiani, a professor of biostatistics at Boston University, and Thomas Perls, associate professor of medicine, also at Boston University.
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