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May 22, 2013
Tallahassee Democrat
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Dr. Angelina Sutin, an assistant professor at Florida State University’s College of Medicine, and her colleagues with the National Institutes of Health (NIH), recently examined data from a decade-long survey of Baltimore residents and found people from the survey who showed at least a 10 percent increase in weight also showed an increase in impulsiveness and a greater tendency to give into temptation.

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May 23, 2013
WCTV
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Four innovative research projects have been awarded a total of $158,000 by the Florida State University Research Foundation to help move their discoveries from the laboratory to the marketplace. Amy Wetherby, a distinguished research professor of clinical sciences in the College of Medicine, has received $50,000 for early detection and treatment of autism.

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May 27, 2013
Tallahassee Democrat Campus Notes
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The new family medicine residency program run by FSU and Fort Myers-based Lee Memorial Health System has received full accreditation for the maximum initial interval of three years.The Family Medicine Residency Program is intended to help combat a growing shortage of primary care physicians.

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May 28, 2013
Mail On Sunday
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A new study done by Angelina Sutin at FSU’s College of Medicine and colleagues at the National Institutes of Health found that people become more satisfied with life as they age. Experts say findings could have implications for today's younger generation who are born into recession and high unemployment.

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May 31, 2013
Tallahassee Democrat
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First-year Florida State University College of Medicine students will visit rural communities today as part of the school’s Rural Education Opportunity Program (REOP).

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May 31, 2013
WCTV
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The FSU College of Medicine Rural Education Opportunity Program sends first-year FSU Med students to get a first-hand look of the need of doctors in the rural sites.

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Jun 02, 2013
The Scientist
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The mechanism behind prairie voles’ lifelong social monogamy is partly epigenetic, according to a paper published in Nature Neuroscience. One of the authors is Mohamed Kabbaj, a neuroscientist at Florida State University.

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Jun 02, 2013
Nature
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Mating normally induces prairie voles to form lifelong bonds, but neuroscientist Mohamed Kabbaj along with other researchers at the FSU College of Medicine found that they could cause the same blissful response by activating certain genes in the rodents' brains.

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Jun 03, 2013
Florida Trend Magazine
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The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation ranked Leon County eighth in health outcomes among Florida's 67 counties when measuring factors such as healthy habits, life expectancy and access to health care. Jacob VanLandingham, assistant professor at FSU's College of Medicine, is also in the article for his creation of the drug Prevacus.

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Jun 03, 2013
Discover Magazine Blogs
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A new study, done by Mohamed Kabbaj, neuroscientist at the FSU College of Medicine, finds that prairie vole’s rare partnerships are cemented by chemical changes on their genes, called epigenetic changes, that result from their sexual encounters. The results, published in Nature Neuroscience today, provide the first direct evidence of the link between epigenetics and monogamous bonding in voles.

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