Car accidents occur at dramatically lower rates among medicated ADHD patients than among those not taking medicine, according to a study of more than 2.3 million people published Wednesday in JAMA Psychiatry. According to Dr. Vishal Madaan and Daniel J. Cox, both of UVA’s Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences, driving "represents a complex neurobehavioral task involving an interplay of cognitive, motor, perceptual and visuospatial skills."
Middlesex County student Zakara Blanding, 15, finished four years of high school and two years of community college – all in two years. This fall, she will enroll at the University of Virginia.
A research team led by St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital immunologists has revealed a previously unknown immune machinery that goes awry to trigger the inflammatory disease neutrophilic dermatosis. The other authors were John Lukens of the University of Virginia, Peter Vogel of St. Jude and Nicholas Tonks of Cold Spring Harbor.
Enacted into law in 1954, the Johnson Amendment prohibits churches and other nonprofit organizations from taking part in political campaigns, on pain of losing their federal tax exemption. “It doesn’t evade campaign finance regulation, it doesn’t create a path for deductible campaign spending, and it ought to be protected,” UVA law professor Douglas Laycock said.
From a campaign perspective, Democrats are happy that Republicans such as Yoder voted yes on the health care bill because they can weaponize it in ads and fundraising appeals, said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball, a nonpartisan newsletter at UVA’s Center for Politics.
Caution: If you attend a campus commencement address this spring, you could be entering a no-Trump zone. “If they invited a politician to speak, they’d get what they expected. Since they didn’t, I’ll take that as a direction” and avoid the subject, said UVA professor and former NASA astronaut Kathryn Thornton, who may speak about space exploration at Sweet Briar College in Virginia.
You may think that if gardening counts as an exercise, that it barely counts. That's only true if you stick solely to mechanized help such as a chipper shredder or riding lawn mower. A lot of work can be done manually and can be enjoyable. According to the University of Virginia, gardening as an exercise is similar to walking or bicycling.
Researchers at the UVA School of Medicine were looking into kidneys and learned more about the formation of the heart. They also identified a gene that is responsible for a deadly cardiac condition.
A UVA research team has found that a type of yogurt bacteria may alleviate some symptoms of depression. Although the research so far has only been performed on mice, if the study is substantiated, live-culture yogurt bacteria could become a drug-free way to treat those suffering from depression.
About 30 people gathered at Carver Recreation Center on Monday for the first of several workshops designed to get input about the future of the city. There are roughly 49,000 people in the city, according to a January estimate released by the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service at the University of Virginia. Demographers with the center project that the population will increase to at least 55,000 by 2040.
Charlottesville awoke with a guarded sigh of relief on this day in 1970, following a tense night of protests between University of Virginia students and local and state law enforcement. The shooting of four Kent State University students by National Guardsmen a week earlier sparked a rash of protests on more than 200 college and university campuses nationwide. The University of Virginia was no exception.
The short story is a “critical genre in Syrian literature,” said Hanadi Al-Samman, a UVA professor of modern Arabic literature. In “Literature from the ‘Axis of Evil,’” an anthology compiled by Words Without Borders, Al-Samman explains that “Syria’s literary tradition has been greatly intertwined with its political background.”
IQ, or intelligence quotient, is a score of mental ability relative to one's peers of the same age. Some researchers – including Jack Naglieri, a UVA professor and senior research scientist at the Devereux Center for Resilient Children – have called for IQ to be scrapped.
"I think it's natural to question when lawmakers vote a certain way," said Kyle Kondik with the UVA Center for Politics. Kondik says there are many factors and variables that influence political decisions.
Helping others achieve academic success is nothing new to UVA law student Andrew Manns. A former teacher, Manns, a native of Leicester, Vt., is being honored for helping his peers with their academic work.
UVA’s vice provost for global affairs, Jeffrey W. Legro, is leaving his post to become the University of Richmond’s provost and vice president for academic affairs.
“It doesn’t evade campaign finance regulation, it doesn’t create a path for deductible campaign spending, and it ought to be protected,” UVA law professor Douglas Laycock said. It’s pure political speech, which the First Amendment was designed to cover.
Texas is among about a dozen states that back the administration while California, Virginia and others attack the ban. Absent comments by Trump and his surrogates, opponents would be on “a much thinner foundation” as courts typically resist reviewing the motives behind a government decision, said David Martin, a UVA law professor.
The subject of whistle-blowers and how they were treated was relegated to a footnote in the 110-page report. What disturbed UVA law professor Brandon L. Garrett, who wrote “Too Big to Jail: How Prosecutors Compromise With Corporations,” is that “to have a systemic pattern of misconduct on this scale, you needed to make sure that potential whistle-blowers kept quiet.”
The name of the device is the DRoTS - Dynamic Rollover Test System, or dynamic rollover test system. "It makes it possible to test accidents with barrels scientifically," explains David Poulard, a researcher at UVA’s Center for Applied Biomechanics, “either in a controlled and reproducible way."