© University of Rochester 1996-2012
“It’s like putting a better thermometer in a burning building. It doesn’t really matter whether you get more accurate temperatures or not.” —John Bisognano, associate professor of medicine and cardiology, making the point on ABC News that around-the-clock monitoring of blood pressure may not be the solution for patients with resistant hypertension.
“While market volatility is high right now, it’s certainly not unprecedented. With the exception of the Great Depression of the 1930s, episodes of high volatility typically do not last for extended periods of time.”—G. William Schwert, Distinguished University Professor and professor of finance and statistics at the Simon School, responding to suggestions that the period of financial turmoil that began last fall is unprecedented.
“It’s told from inside this guy’s mind as he takes a train trip. It has a lot of commas.” —Chad Post, director of Open Letter, a literary translation press based at the University, on the press’s upcoming publication of Zone, a novel by French author Mathias Enard that consists of a single 150,000-word sentence.
“Binge-drinking has been linked to increased risk for heart disease, and the newer inflammatory model is beginning to explain how.”—John Cullen, assistant professor in the Department of Surgery, on research he led that identifies how binge-drinking — by prompting a certain kind of immune cell to cause blood vessel inflammation — contributes to heart attack and stroke.
“People who are able to focus on the present are more able to enjoy things going on in the moment that really do make us happy — like relationships, being in nature, giving to others.”—Richard Ryan, professor of clinical and social psychology, discussing people’s ability to maintain happiness in tough economic times.
“This opens a window to a mechanism that we hadn’t really seen in this way. But I’m not sure it gets us exactly where it needs us to be with human treatment.”—Robert Gross, professor of neurology and director of the Strong Epilepsy Center, assessing research suggesting that interactions between white blood cells and blood vessels may contribute to epileptic seizures.
“They are looking at what goes right with aging and going forward with that. The eventual goal would be to do things that promote what goes right before people start to hit old age.”—Mark Mapstone, associate professor of cognitive behavioral neurology, commenting on findings that the brains of the “super-aged” — people over 80 with the cognitive performance of a 50-year-old — have no or very few protein “tangles” associated with Alzheimer’s disease and with normal aging.
© University of Rochester 1996-2012