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Hormones flatten social hierarchy and synchronize behaviors
Penn Integrates Knowledge professor Michael Platt

Penn Integrates Knowledge professor Michael Platt

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Hormones flatten social hierarchy and synchronize behaviors

Findings from a study of male rhesus macaques from PIK professor Michael Platt and postdoc Yaoguang Jiang could lead to treatment options for social impairments in disorders like autism and schizophrenia.

Michele W. Berger

Future doctors take to the community
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Future doctors take to the community

A course developed at the Perelman School of Medicine connects medical students with high-risk patients in Philadelphia through apprenticeships with community health workers.

Penn Today Staff

NICU uses volunteer cuddlers to calm premature babies
A cuddling program at Penn Medicine’s Chester County Hospital provides babies in the NICU with positive touch during medical procedures.

A cuddling program at Penn Medicine’s Chester County Hospital provides babies in the NICU with positive touch during medical procedures.

NICU uses volunteer cuddlers to calm premature babies

It seems intuitive that holding a baby provides comfort, but a recent study found that human touch plays a major role in the progression of infant neurodevelopmental function.

Jacob Williamson-Rea

Technology, aging patients, and the people who care for them
Penn Integrates Knowledge professor George Demiris

Penn Integrates Knowledge professor George Demiris takes a two-pronged approach to research: One examines the family caregivers of hospice patients, their stress and anxiety levels, and their input into the decision-making process. The second relates to technology and aging, specifically smart homes and how passive-monitoring systems—sensors that track motion, for instance—can figure into someone’s life.

Technology, aging patients, and the people who care for them

In a quest to ease the care process for older adults and the very sick, as well as their family-member caregivers, PIK professor George Demiris is studying the intersection of smart-home technologies and health informatics.

Michele W. Berger

Immune system function in the microgravity of space
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Immune system function in the microgravity of space

Researchers from the School of Engineering and Applied Science and the Perelman School of Medicine are developing a technology to better understand how microgravity negatively affects immune system function.

Ali Sundermier

Dogs born in the summertime more likely to suffer heart disease
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Dogs born in the summertime more likely to suffer heart disease

Dog days of summer: a study out of the Perelman School of Medicine and the School of Veterinary Medicine has found a correlation between canine health and birth season.

Penn Today Staff

Different diseases elicit distinct sets of exhausted T cells
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Different diseases elicit distinct sets of exhausted T cells

A new study by researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine found that immune systems that are battling long-term infections or chronic diseases are left fatigued, and identified nine distinct varieties of exhausted T cells, or Tex. 

Penn Today Staff

Leadership training for a new focus on healthcare
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Leadership training for a new focus on healthcare

Doctors at the Perelman School of Medicine are focusing on what the future of healthcare will require of its leaders for a well-integrated healthcare system.

Penn Today Staff