Archive for December, 2008
Sleep: Where Biology And Psychology Meet
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Presented by: Rachel Manber, PHD
Associate Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Director, Insomnia and Behavioral Sleep Medicine Program
Lecture Overview
Sleep involves a series of cycles involving distinct stages marked by different brain wave activity
Sleep rhythms are controlled by three separate but interrelated systems, […]
Preventing Osteoporosis-Related Fractures
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Presented by: Rachel Wagman, MD
Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine
Stanford University Medical Center
Lecture Overview:
Osteoporosis is a common condition affecting both men and women that is related to bone density
People with lower bone mass density are at higher risk for fracture, but other risk factors are involved as well
Age is not the automatic indication that bone […]
