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The FSU College of Medicine's Fort Pierce Regional Campus gathered its faculty members for a night of appreciation, awards and academic updates on Oct. 4 at the Riverwalk Center.

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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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A new Florida State University College of Medicine study involving data from 12,000 participants collected over 10 years confirms the heavy toll that loneliness can take on your health: It increases your risk of dementia by 40 percent.

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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.

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A study by Angelina Sutin found that being lonely increases the risk of dementia by 40 percent. Social isolation may trigger inflammation in the brain or cause people to live unhealthy lifestyles. Socializing might keep the mind engaged and maintain cognitive health. 

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A study led by College of Medicine Professor Angelina Sutin found that loneliness increases a person's risk of dementia by 40 percent. The study involved 12,030 participants over a period of 10 years and found that the risk applies to all demographics regardless of gender, race, ethnicity or education.

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Senior Associate Dean Myra Hurt remembered FSU College of Medicine faculty member Nancy Van Vessem as “a formidable woman,” in a New York Times article.

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A muted crowd of hundreds gathered around Florida State's "Unconquered" statue, just two days removed from a mass shooting at a Midtown yoga studio. The vigil was held for victims Maura Binkley, 21, and Dr. Nancy Van Vessem, 61.

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Hundreds gathered at Florida State University Sunday evening to mourn the deaths of two university community members killed in a Tallahassee shooting two days earlier. FSU senior Maura Binkley, 21, and College of Medicine faculty member Dr. Nancy Van Vessem, 61, died when a gunman opened fire at a Tallahassee yoga studio Friday, Nov. 2. Five others — all with FSU connections — were injured before the gunman took his own life. 

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