Penn in the News

“Time can be an excellent diagnostic test,” writes Jeffrey Millstein of the Perelman School of Medicine in a guest essay, explaining that extensive diagnostic testing and scans can actually cloud a clinical picture more than help, despite advice that AI-powered chatbots tend to give.

“The findings provide some of the clearest human evidence to date that anti-amyloid therapies may limit the accumulation of tau and slow the brain changes that lead to memory loss and cognitive decline,” says David Wolk of the Perelman School of Medicine.

Rene Vidal of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences says CAMI, Computerized Assessment of Motor Imitation, "...is a much more fine-grained motor assessment than is usually done in the current standardized test" in autism evaluations.

According to Xiaoxia Summer Dong of the Weitzman School of Design, research confirms that service improvements have a greater positive effect on transit usage than small relative price changes.

Gun violence in PG-13 movies exceeded that of R movies by 2012, according to a study from the Annenberg Public Policy Center, and it continued to rise in subsequent years. As less and less distinguished a PG-13 from an R, “the rating issue kind of dissolved,” says Dan Romer of the Annenberg Public Policy Center.

Sync Labs, a healthcare startup founded by Melanie Herbert of the School of Engineering and Applied Science as an undergraduate, is highlighted. Lori Rosenkopf of the Wharton School discusses how AI lowers barriers to entry for young entrepreneurs.

“We would not allow, as a society, people with heart attacks to come to a hospital and not get appropriate treatment. This is as serious as that,” says Judy Chertok of the Perelman School of Medicine.

“Writing a thank you note interrupts that flow a bit and can help students think about how they are describing what they’ve done, what they want to achieve. It can elevate the ways in which they already value and are responsive to the influence of others,” says Dean Whitney Soule.

Once someone takes antidepressants for months or years, and the medication disappears suddenly, it is extremely jarring to the brain. Cooper Stone of the Perelman School of Medicine calls this a “shock” to the body.

When embarking on the college application process, Dean Whitney Soule says, "One place for a student to feel somewhat grounded is that they are going to stand out because they are not like anybody else in the world."