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A promising study out in the Journal of Neurosciences showed that in a mouse model of Rett syndrome, researchers were able to reverse abnormalities in brain activity and improve neurological function by treating the animals with an FDA-approved anesthesia drug, ketamine. Rett syndrome is among the m...

CLEVELAND - A promising study out today in the prestigious Journal of Neurosciences showed that in a mouse model of Rett syndrome, researchers were able to reverse abnormalities in brain activity and improve neurological function by treating the animals with an FDA-approved anesthesia drug, ketamine...

Scientists can’t travel deep space the way Columbus sailed and charted the New World or Lewis and Clark mapped the west. But researchers at Case Western Reserve University and two partnering institutions have found a possible way to map the spread and structure of the universe, guided by the light o...

Students who wish to purchase CaseCash at caseonecard.com and bill their bursar's account for Fall 2012 must do so before Thursday, Oct. 4, at 5 p.m. Additional CaseCash this semester can be purchased using a credit card at cwru-sp.blackboard.com/eaccounts (click on “Make a guest deposit”) or with ...

Headline news increasingly reports reactions to information gone viral. “Is There Revolutionary Potential in Rising Expectations?”—a talk by cultural anthropologist Arjun Appadurai, founder and president of Partners for Urban Knowledge Action and Research (PUKAR) in Mumbai, India—will address issues...

CLEVELAND - Case Western Reserve School of Medicine announces a $1.5 million commitment from alumnus Michael D. Eppig, MD, and his wife Ruth Eppig. The Eppigs’ gift will help fund a new medical education and research building that will serve as the School of Medicine’s headquarters. Dean Pamela B. D...

Voters young & old discuss 2012 election ideastream: A recent Gallup poll shows that 63 percent of 18- to 29-year-old registered voters definitely will vote this year; in the 2008 election, it was 80 percent. On Thursday’s edition of “The Sound of Ideas,” two students, Mel Sayre, president of the C...

Female factor: Candidates campaign on women’s issues in fight for votes The Ledger: Women outnumber men among registered voters by 8.6 million, or 6.2 percent, and research shows women are more likely to actually vote. "This is a huge impact that women have just in terms of our numbers," said Karen...

A poetry book by English department lecturer Brad Ricca was recently named the best poetry debut in Cleveland Magazine’s Best of Cleveland awards. The book, American Mastadon, is “the sort of poetry that makes you want to come through it over and over, hoping to further decipher the clues left along...

A new study published in a special issue of Substance Abuse finds that recovering alcoholics who help others in 12-step programs have better outcomes in terms of their time sober, consideration for others and long-term meeting attendance. These novel findings are from a 10-year, prospective investi...