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...caffeine, that would be pretty much impossible. Somebody (a desperate pre-med, perhaps?) looking to achieve a fatal overdose would need to sit down and chug 100 cups of coffee. “I think there’s a lethal dose of almost anything,” says HMS Professor Don Coen. “High-enough doses of caffeine can certainly cause seizures, but that’s not from the kind of dose people would ordinarily take.” Bring on the double-tall espresso macchiatos...
...Fort Peck Native American Reservation in Montana will receive a $150,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to fund a Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Harvard Medical School (HMS) program geared towards assisting the reservation, according...
...rest of the grant will fund high-level video cameras capable of free internet video-conferencing, which will improve communication between the teachers, students, and health care providers at Fort Peck and researchers at MGH and HMS...
Harvard has had a four to five year-long relationship with Fort Peck, Norman said. The University flies 10 kids from the reservation every summer to Cambridge to take an HMS course...
...report by a Harvard Medical School (HMS) research team identified specific neurons in macaque monkeys that assign values to different material objects to facilitate decision-making. The results could provide insight into the mechanisms behind human choice. The report, which appeared in the online edition of the journal Nature on Sunday, located these neurons in an area of the brain known as the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC). “There are neurons in the orbitofrontal cortex whose activity represents or encodes the value that subjects assign to the available goods when they make choices,” said Camillo Padoa...