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Deirdre McCarthy, Pradeep Bhide and a team of researchers from the FSU College of Medicine published a study that suggests nicotine use among fathers can cause epigenetic changes that are passed to children and even grandchildren.

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New research from College of Medicine researcher Pradeep Bhide suggests that smoking by fathers may cause changes in their sperm that lead to cognitive deficits in their children - and even their grandchildren.

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A new study from College of Medicine researcher Pradeep Bhide published in PLOS Biology found that nicotine-addicted mice and two generations of their offspring had behavioral deficits in learning and attention compared to a control group of mice who had not been exposed to any nicotine.

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Researchers have figured out how a father's experiences can influence the health and development of his descendants from sperm: chemical modifications in the DNA. Through epigenetic changes, chemical modifications are made to DNA and genes are turned on or off in different cells and at different developmental states. College of Medicine researcher Pradeep Bhide and his team found that a father's exposure to nicotine may cause cognitive deficits in his children and grandchildren because of epigenetic changes in key genes in the father's sperm.

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At the recent Faculty Appreciation Celebration, the FSU College of Medicine's Fort Pierce Regional Campus awarded four $5,000 scholarships to fourth-year students in the Class of 2019. 

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The University of Houston’s proposed medical school received state approval in late October. The school will be founded on a mission to address a state shortage of primary-care doctors. UH’s president and chancellor and founding dean of the med school publicly cited the FSU College of Medicine among three schools where a large percentage of students go into primary care.

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Angelina Sutin was the principal investigator on a study that asked 12,030 participants aged 50 and over to report on their loneliness and social isolation. Sutin and her team assessed the participants' cognitive status at the beginning of the study and again every two years during the ten-year follow up and found that loneliness is associated with a 40 percent increased risk of dementia.

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Mohamed Kabbaj, professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences, received a $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study a drug called ketamine and its efficacy as a treatment for depression.