This Week on The Academic Minute
Monday
Edison Bicudo, lecturer in the Department of Society and Politics at Aston University, discusses how language can shape our societies and our political lives.
Tuesday
Ray Goodrich, professor in the department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology at Colorado State University, tells us encouraging news for ovarian cancer patients may be on the way.
Wednesday
Indranil Bardhan, Charles and Elizabeth Prothro Regents Chair in Health Care Management at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin, talks electronic medical records and declining COVID mortality rates at hospitals.
Thursday
Carlena Ficano, professor of economics at Hartwick College, discusses why the intersection of race, gender, and financial access needs further study.
Friday
Jinglu Jiang, associate professor at the School of Management at Binghamton University, reveals how multitasking may allow harmful emails to slip by.
Catch up with The Academic Minute from 5/4 - 5/8
Monday
Zhen Yan - Virginia Tech
Weightlifting Beats Running for Blood Sugar Control
Zhen Yan’s research highlights the importance of the power plants of our cells, the mitochondria. The quantity, number, and function of mitochondria are critically important to maintaining good health.
Tuesday
Sarah Lessard - Virginia Tech
Keto Diet, Exercise and High Blood Sugar
Identifying mechanisms to optimize the therapeutic benefits of exercise
Why do some people gain fewer health benefits from exercise than others?
Increased aerobic exercise capacity is one of the key health benefits of aerobic training. Some individuals, however, are “exercise resistant” and fail to improve fitness and other key health markers with training.
Wednesday
Stephanie DeLuca - Virginia Tech
Intensive Therapy Benefits For Infants and Toddlers With Cerebral Palsy
For more than 25 years, Stephanie Deluca, Ph.D., has studied how intensive neurorehabilitation treatments help children and adults with these impairments.
Dr. DeLuca has helped develop and rigorously test multiple neurorehabilitation therapy protocols and led numerous clinical research trials. Her interdisciplinary research efforts have included; engagement of families, international training, and innovative teaching to prepare the next generation of clinicians and scientists.
Thursday
Read Montague - Virginia Tech
Parkinson’s and Essential Tremor
Dr. Montague’s research focuses on computational neuroscience: the connection between physical mechanisms present in real neural tissue and the computational functions that these mechanisms embody. His early theoretical work focused on the hypothesis that dopaminergic systems encode a particular kind of computational process, a reward prediction error signal, similar to those used in areas of artificial intelligence like optimal control. The Montague Lab uses theoretical, computational, and experimental approaches to the problems of mental health and its derangement by disease and injury. They recently pioneered new approaches to measure sub-second fluctuations in dopamine and serotonin levels in the striatum of conscious human subjects.
Friday
Alex DeFelicantonio - Virginia Tech
Ozempic, Wegovy May Help Reduce Alcohol Use
Alexandra DiFeliceantonio, Ph.D., is an appetitive neuroscientist who studies how the brain integrates peripheral signals to guide food selection and eating behaviors. Using multimodal brain imaging and metabolic measures, her laboratory in Roanoke studies food motivation to ask new questions about diet, food choice, and addiction.
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