The information in this post was adapted from the above Mini-Medical School presentation that was recorded in January 2022. Adam Bertroche, D.O. is an assistant professor of Behavioral Medicine and Medical Humanities and Bioethics and a physician at the DMU […]
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This article was co-authored by Des Moines University students Morgan Alwell, D.O.’23, Grace Gavin, D.O.’23, and Charis Kasler, D.O.’23. What does good mental health look like? There are an endless number of answers, of course, but we’ll begin by discussing
“Could menopause be causing me to lose my memory?” I recall the question distinctly, despite being asked of me almost five years ago. It was posed by a female patient in her mid-forties. She had three teenagers at home, an
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Ketamine is an anesthesia medicine that may be a powerful antidote to depression – if only scientists knew more about how it affects the brain. A group of researchers at Des Moines University and the University of North Carolina recently
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Curiosity is creating an audible buzz among students and faculty engaged in DMU’s increasingly robust research enterprise. This story is part of “Research Engines,” a series on the questions being asked and investigated by DMU researchers. “If we rank the
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Vanja Duric, Ph.D., faculty member in the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology in the College of Medicine was recently awarded a $100,000 Research Starter Grant in Pharmacology/Toxicology from the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America Foundation (PhRMA). Dr. Duric was awarded
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