UC Davis (Video)

Child psychiatrist Dr. Jeremy Veenstra-VanderWeele explores the two main approaches for developing autism medicines. The first and most common approach is to evaluate a treatment in the total group of people affected by ASD, usually with a small number excluded due to the presence of a known genetic syndrome. The second approach is almost the exact opposite, to study a medication for ASD-related symptoms in a defined genetic syndrome that confers substantial risk of ASD but comprises less than 2% of individuals with ASD. Transformative treatments, though possibly not “cures,” seem most likely to emerge from the second approach, but in a small group of children. In contrast, if the first approach is successful, we can expect a treatment that benefits a larger group of children, but likely benefits them less. Series: "MIND Institute Lecture Series on Neurodevelopmental Disorders" [Health and Medicine] [Education] [Professional Medical Education] [Show ID: 29512]

Short video introducing the UC Davis Graduate School of Management community Series: "UC Davis Graduate School of Management's Dean's Distinguished Speaker Series" [Education] [Show ID: 29748]

Darrell Steinberg, former Senate Pro Tempore for the state of California and visiting professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at UC Davis School of Medicine, has championed the mental-health needs of the people of Sacramento and California throughout his career. He discusses current policy and shares recent findings that indicate positive outcomes in our communities. [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 29455]

Vivek Ranadivé shares his amazing story, from listening to the U.S. moon landing on the Voice of America during his childhood in India to his success as an entrepreneur putting big data to work on the trading floor of Goldman Sachs on Wall Street and later bringing that same entrepreneurial thinking to launching TIBCO in Silicon Valley, to today as owner of the Sacramento Kings and his vision for revitalizing Sacramento, helping to create “Cities 3.0” of the future and extending the NBA’s global brand.

Series: "UC Davis Graduate School of Management's Dean's Distinguished Speaker Series" [Business] [Show ID: 29620]

The MIND Institute is investigating the use of electronic tablets to support children with neurodevelopmental disorders in reading comprehension and communication. Researchers and clinicians will share some of the positive outcomes. Representatives from Navigate Autism, a website in development by the UC Davis School of Education, will demonstrate its use as an educational tool. Series: "MIND Institute Lecture Series on Neurodevelopmental Disorders" [Health and Medicine] [Professional Medical Education] [Show ID: 28238]

Fragile X syndrome is the most common inherited form of intellectual and development disabilities that is often accompanied by significant behavioral problems. It is due to a dynamic repeat sequence

mutation in the X-linked FMR1 gene that occurs in about 1/4000 males and 1/8000 females. All mothers of children with FXS carry the FMR1 mutation in some form, most often the “premutation” form.

There are other possible manifestations of the premutation, possibly exacerbated by genetic and environmental factors,which are just now being realized. Women with the premutation play a central role in the lives of their family members, commonly caring for a child and parent with fragile X related disabilities —this role demands their good health and well-being.

Series: "MIND Institute Lecture Series on Neurodevelopmental Disorders" [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 27768]

Guinevere F. Eden, Georgetown University Medical Center, highlights the importance of distinguishing between cause and consequence of dyslexia. Reading is a cultural invention and has to be learned through explicit instructions, resulting in the utilization of a variety of brain areas that were not designed specifically to read. This presentation explores how brain imaging technology has been used to reveal brain areas that are involved in word processing in typical readers and how these differ in children and adults with reading disability (e.g. dyslexia). Series: "MIND Institute Lecture Series on Neurodevelopmental Disorders" [Health and Medicine] [Professional Medical Education] [Show ID: 29515]

The MIND Institute is investigating the use of electronic tablets to support children with neurodevelopmental disorders in reading comprehension and communication. Researchers and clinicians will share some of the positive outcomes. Representatives from Navigate Autism, a website in development by the UC Davis School of Education, will demonstrate its use as an educational tool. Series: "MIND Institute Lecture Series on Neurodevelopmental Disorders" [Health and Medicine] [Professional Medical Education] [Show ID: 28238]

A leader in innovation and entrepreneurship for more than four decades, T. Gary Rogers is an icon in the food industry. Since 2013 he has served as chairman of Pleasanton, California.-based Safeway Inc., which has more than 2,400 stores and 250,000 employees. For 30 years, Rogers grew Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream from a 75-employee company with $6 million in sales to one of the world’s largest ice cream companies with more than 9,000 employees. Series: "UC Davis Graduate School of Management's Dean's Distinguished Speaker Series" [Business] [Show ID: 29449]

In UCSF Liver Transplant Conference 2014, Part Three, Ryutaro Hirose, MD discusses improving organ distribution. In relaying the history, current state and future of organ allocation distribution, he discusses fixing issues for the future, such as demand vs. supply and the rationing of medical care. Health disparities are noted as a means for improvement. Series: "UCSF Transplant Update" [Health and Medicine] [Professional Medical Education] [Show ID: 29264]