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Various research programs are conducted by many lab groups and centers within the Krasnow Institute. Krasnow investigators seek to provide the research bases that may lead to cures to some of the most devastating brain diseases. Adaptive Systems Laboratory Human brains do many tasks much better than the fastest silicon computers–even with much slower components. [...]

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Descriptive inorganic chemistry focuses on the classification of compounds based on their properties. Partly the classification focuses on the position in the periodic table of the heaviest element (the element with the highest atomic weight) in the compound, partly by grouping compounds by their structural similarities. When studying inorganic compounds, one often encounters parts of [...]

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The present classification of psychiatric disorders is ill-defined, offering poor guidelines for the treatment of the ambulatory and the severe mentally ill. One form of depressive illness, described for millennia as melancholia, has defined criteria and effective treatments. In modern practice, melancholia is separated from the amorphous concepts of major depression, bipolar disorder, and other [...]

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Physical immortality is a state of life that allows a person to avoid death and maintain conscious thought. It can mean the unending existence of a person from a physical source other than organic life, such as a computer. In the early 21st century, physical immortality remains a goal rather than a current reality. Active [...]

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The world’s first professor of complementary medicine, Ernst researches complementary medicine with an emphasis on efficacy and safety. His research mainly surveys systematic reviews and meta-analyses of clinical trials; the institute has not performed a clinical trial for some time due to budget constraints. He has over 700 papers published in scientific journals. He has [...]

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Proteomics After the completion of the human genome project, many scientists realized the next big target would be the human proteome. As genes ultimately encode cellular proteins, the purpose and ultimate destination of proteins in cells is technically encoded as well. However, in practice, the ability to determine the structure, let alone function, of a [...]

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Biomedicine Within Western culture and over recent centuries, conventional Western medicine has become increasingly based on scientific reductionism and materialism. This style of medicine is now dominant throughout the industrialized world, and is often termed Biomedicine by medical anthropologists. Biomedicine “formulates the human body and disease in a culturally distinctive pattern”, and is a world [...]

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After the First World War, Steiner became active in a wide variety of cultural contexts. He founded a school, known as the Waldorf school, which later evolved into a worldwide school network. The agricultural system he founded, now known as Biodynamic agriculture, was one of the initial forms of and has contributed significantly to the [...]

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Dark therapy is an experimental treatment which involves eliminating all light in the subject’s environment, for a period of six to sixteen hours per day, in combination with a regular sleep schedule. Dark therapy manipulates circadian rhythms acting on hormones and neurotransmitters. It has been proposed recently (2005) to combine the chronobiological manipulations of light/dark [...]

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Some alternative medicine proponents claim that serratiopeptidase is beneficial for pain and inflammation but there is no compelling evidence. Online medical journal Bandolier (specializing in ”Evidence-based thinking about healthcare”) published an article (in about 2001) in response to a reader’s enquiry about serratiopeptidase. After searching PubMed and the Cochrane Library “to see if there are [...]