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Malaspina Choir Spring Concert
2008-04-29 17:28:00 Celebrate the joy of our Nanaimo spring with rousing choral music featuring the majestic sounds of the Malaspina Choir and the Vancouver Island Symphony. The soaring voices of the choir are being joined by the exquisite musicianship of the symphony in a fabulous spring choral extravaganza which features music by Handel, Mozart and Beethoven and concludes with the majestic, celebratory Lord Nelson
By: Go Nanaimo Blog
Marco Malaspina, La scienza dei Simpson - intervista all'Autore
2007-09-12 00:22:00 Intervista a Marco Malaspina La scienza dei Simpson a cura di Giuseppe Iannozzi 1. In primo luogo, chi è Marco Malaspina, autore de “La scienza dei Simpson” in uscita nel mese di ottobre (2007) per Sironi Editore, nella collana Galápagos? So che sei un giornalista scientifico di Bologna, che lavori all’ufficio comunicazione dell’Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica e che scrivi per le pagine di salute del settimanale «Oggi»; inoltre conduci Pigreco Party, un programma in bilico fra scienza e società, di Radio Città del Capo. Vuoi aggiungere qualcosa, delle note di colore circa le tue tante attività? Come attività lavorative, direi che possono bastare: sono già più che sufficienti a lasciarmi stremato, anche perché sono piuttosto pigro. In fin dei conti, comunque, è un’attività sola, la mia: fare interviste. Ed &egrav...
DOLORES MALASPINA INVESTIGATES CAN DE NOVO MUTATIONS CAUSE SCHIZOPHRENIA
2007-04-15 17:05:00 Dolores Malaspina, M.D., M.S.P.H. (Independent Investigator 2001) of New York State Psychiatric Institute, will examine the novel hypothesis that new genetic mutations can cause schizophrenia, and will attempt to define the clinical profile (phenotype) of this type of schizophrenia, known as sporadic schizophrenia (the birth of an affected individual into an unaffected family). This type of schizophrenia has previously been thought to originate from environmental factors that either act independently or interact with latent genes. Dr. Malaspina has conducted two preliminary studies which support the new mutations hypothesis. As a major influence on new mutations in the human gene pool is related to the advancing age of fathers, Dr. Malaspina first examined the relationship of schizophrenia and paternal age. Data showed a strong escalation in schizophrenia risk as the age of the father increased, accounting for over a quarter of the schizophrenia cases. Another of her studies fo...
Dolores Malaspina "It is well established that paternal age is the major so
2007-04-10 04:40:00 Seminal findingsWe initially examined the relationship between paternal age and the risk for schizophrenia because it is well established that paternal age is the major source of de novo mutations in the human population, and most schizophrenia cases have no family history of psychosis. In 2001, we demonstrated a monotonic increase in the risk of schizophrenia as paternal age advanced in the rich database of the Jerusalem Perinatal Cohort. Compared with the offspring of fathers aged 20-24 years, in well-controlled analyses, each decade of paternal age multiplied the risk for schizophrenia by 1.4 (95 percent confidence interval: 1.2-1.7), so that the relative risk (RR) for offspring of fathers aged 45+ was 3.0 (1.6-5.5), with 1/46 of these offspring developing schizophrenia. There were no comparable maternal age effects (Malaspina et al., 2001). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Paternal- age, size at birth, and size in young adulthoo... |
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