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About Our Research
We’ve doubled down on our commitment to research and teaching.
Arkana is a learning, teaching, and innovating practice with one unifying passion – to actively work toward the day that our research yields breakthroughs that make our services unnecessary. Eradicating rare and common diseases is the end game of all of our efforts because patient health is foremost in our minds every day. Read about some of our latest publications below.
All Publications
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Male Gamblers Have Significantly Greater Salivary Cortisol Before And After Betting On A Horse Race, Than Do Female Gamblers
Prevalence rates of gambling are influenced by gender. Among normative populations, hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis response to stress is affected by…
Read on PubMed• August 2009
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Quantitation And Mapping Of Cerebral Detergent-Insoluble Proteins In The Elderly
Accumulation of abnormal protein aggregates, detergent-insoluble (DI) proteins and amyloid in the brain are shared features of many neurodegenerative diseases.…
Read on PubMed• July 2009
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Chronic Estradiol Replacement To Aged Female Rats Reduces Anxiety-Like And Depression-Like Behavior And Enhances Cognitive Performance
Decline in the ovarian steroid, estradiol (E(2)), with the menopause transition may influence cognitive and affective processing of older women…
Read on PubMed• July 2009
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Infusions Of Bicuculline To The Ventral Tegmental Area Attenuates Sexual, Exploratory, And Anti-Anxiety Behavior Of Proestrous Rats
Actions of 5alpha-pregnan-3alpha-ol-20-one (3alpha,5alpha-THP), in the midbrain ventral tegmental area (VTA) modulate sexual receptivity of female rats. Actions of 3alpha,5alpha-THP…
Read on PubMed• July 2009
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Associations Between Microinfarcts And Other Macroscopic Vascular Findings On Neuropathologic Examination In 2 Databases
Clinicians may undervalue brain microinfarcts because they are defined by neuropathology and not seen on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). We…
Read on PubMed• July 2009
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Gambling Pathology Is Associated With Dampened Cortisol Response Among Men And Women
Pathological gambling has many similarities to pharmacological addiction. Notably, both pathological gambling and drug addiction are characterized by aberrations in…
Read on PubMed• April 2009
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Different Patterns Of Cerebral Injury In Dementia With Or Without Diabetes
Diabetes mellitus (DM) increases the risk of dementia in the elderly. However, its underlying mechanisms, its connection with Alzheimer disease…
Read on PubMed• March 2009
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The Renal Biopsy
The first renal biopsy was carried out more than a century ago, but its widespread introduction into clinical use, beginning…
Read on Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine• February 2009
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Free Radical Damage To Cerebral Cortex In Alzheimer’s Disease, Microvascular Brain Injury, And Smoking
Evidence supports a pathogenic role for free radical injury to brain in Alzheimer’s disease; however, clinical trial results are only…
Read on PubMed• February 2009
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Neuropathology-Based Risk Scoring For Dementia Diagnosis In The Elderly
Current neuropathologic consensus criteria for diagnosis of dementia yield a classification of processes that likely contributed to dementia in that…
Read on PubMed• January 2009
