And he wants a study on the effects of music and video games on youth violence--though the Congressman seems to believe he knows what the findings would be.
Mass screening of this sort is not, itself, a new idea in the search for drugs, but extending it so that it can study effects on entire animals rather than just isolated cells should make it even more productive.
Recently, researchers at the Institute of Neurology at University College London stimulated the brains of human subjects to push the brain toward beta band frequencies associated with focus to study the effects on motor processing, with the hope of helping those with Parkinson's disease.
In the American Journal of Epidemiology this month, Janet Hildebrand and colleagues reported on a large study looking at the effects of coffee on throat cancers.
Nationally recognized research firm Dalbar recently produced the results of a study on the overall performance effects of individual investor behavior.
The route that I took on the way towards my study looking at the effects of meditation training on alpha rhythms in somatosensory cortex has been circuitous.
Then in March 1996, another challenge: A bill to study the effects of gambling on American society.
This is the first study to highlight the effects on mortality of alcohol minimum pricing, although the Scottish government has used previous research from the University of Sheffield to claim consumption of alcohol would be reduced if prices rose.
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"Having these ways to look into the brain gives us a tool that we can then use to study the effects of music on the growth and development of the brain, " says Professor John Iversen of the Institute of Neural Computation at the University of California San Diego.
The FDA has required Vivus to do a study on the drug's cardiovascular effects.
David Begg, a former government adviser, points out that Sir Rod's remit was unusually clear to study the effects of transport policy on the economy.
Eventually, he somewhat backtracked, saying that we need to study the effects violent games have on behavior, a project already greenlit by the Obama administration in the wake of Sandy Hook.
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That said, subtler effects of climate change such as more sudden rains and particularly hot days with disproportionate effects on yield are left out, which might mean the study underestimates the effects.
For many drugs, just doing a study looking at the effects of medicines on African-Americans might be useful.
Cannon replies that ibuprofen and naproxen weren't used in his study because they can have other effects on the heart that are not linked to Cox-2.
The objectives are the recovery and monitoring of whale populations, study of the effects of not whaling on whales and research on the effects of environmental change on whale populations.
In late 2011, academics at the University of Kent began carrying out a 12-month study into the effects of lap dancing clubs on communities.
The Motion Picture Association of America is already working on its own economic study of the harmful effects of file sharing, to be completed this autumn.
The European Space Agency and the Russian Institute of Biomedial Problems are scheduled to run a joint 520-day mock Mars expedition this year aimed to study the effects of extreme isolation and confinement on 12 volunteers.
CNN: Mars on the brain? Red Planet pioneers to face cosmic mind trip
But the most scientifically credible study of the effects of Medicaid, based on randomly assigning 10, 000 people to Medicaid coverage in Oregon, found there was no statistically significant difference in ER use between those newly enrolled in Medicaid relative to the (largely uninsured) comparison group.
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This latest research at Swansea University's College of Engineering follows an initial study into the effects that a normal pregnancy has on women's cardiovascular function.
Just as importantly, deeper study of the effects of taxation casts a light on how certain taxes affect where taxpayers decide to live and where businesses locate.
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When I was a graduate student at Columbia, my mentor Carol Dweck and another student, Claudia Mueller, conducted a study looking at the effects of different kinds of praise on fifth-graders.
The new findings concern scientists who see the study as further confirmation of the harmful effects of climate change on ecosystems.
There are presently only 260 terrestrial places around the globe where data on carbon-dioxide levels are monitored to help study the effects of global warming.
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The Australian research focused on the thermal effects or specific absorption rate (SAR) of radio frequency radiation - a measure of its actual effects on brain tissue, whereas the earlier study simply looked at electromagnetic radiation levels.
In a recent study, Dr. Karageorghis and colleagues tested the effects of music on swimmers.
Economists billed the study as the first comprehensive look at the recession's effects on school funding in New Jersey and New York.
But perhaps the most intriguing study so far of the fundamental nature of music's effects on the emotions has been done by Dr Peretz.
In fact, Summers' study says that the boom in employment regulation has had several negative effects on business in local communities.
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