by SmartTots | Feb 10, 2013 | Research Articles
2013 Research Grants Recipients Lena Sun, MD – $200,000 Grant Columbia University Medical Center Pediatric Anesthesia NeuroDevelopment Assessment (PANDA) Study Dr. Lena S. Sun, E.M. Papper Professor of Pediatric Anesthesiology, Professor of Anesthesiology &...
by SmartTots | Feb 10, 2013 | Research Articles
SmartTots 2013 Research Grants Guidelines and Application Instructions SmartTots is now accepting applications aimed at investigating whether anesthetics/sedatives are neurotoxic and/or impede the normal development of the human brain. Up to two projects will be...
by SmartTots | Feb 10, 2013 | Research Articles
In February 2013, SmartTots released its second Request for Applications. In July 2013, two recipients were selected to receive a $200,000 each (paid over two years). Dr. Lena Sun, Columbia University Medical Center Pediatric Anesthesia NeuroDevelopment Assessment...
by SmartTots | Feb 10, 2013 | Research Articles
Department of Anesthesiology, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, PR China., February 2013. Yu D, Jiang Y, Gao J, Liu B, Chen P. Abstract Previous studies have shown that exposure of the immature brain to drugs that block NMDA glutamate...
by SmartTots | Feb 10, 2013 | Research Articles
Anaesthesist, February 2013. [Article in German] Sinner B, Becke K, Engelhard K. Abstract Many animal experiments have shown that anesthetics can have a neurotoxic effect on immature brains because they induce apoptosis and influence neurogenesis and synaptogenesis....
