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The Michigan Daily - Thursday, October 5, 2000 - 3A
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Reseachers help
-explain bipolar
mating disorder
A new study published in the
October issue of the American Jour-
nal of Psychiatry found that people
with biopolar disorder have a 3(1
percent higher concentration of cer-
tain brain signaling cells.
The study, led by University
assistant professor of psychiatry
arid radiology Jon-Kar Zubieta,
might be the key to the understand-
and treatment of the disease,
~so known as "manic depressiotn
disorder."
Researchers looked at 16 patients
with type I bipolar disorder and
examined the density of the cells
that release the brain chemicals
dopamine, serotonin and norepi-
nephrine, by using positron emis-
sion tomography technology.
These brain chemicals, also known
* monoamines, function in mood regu-
lation, but their role in biopolar disorder
has never been proven.
;Test subjects were injected with a
radioactive tracer known as DTBZ,
,Vhich binds to protein inside the
monoamine releasing cells. Patients
with bipolar disorder averaged 31
percent more binding sites in the
-area of the brain called the thalamus
than patients without the disorder.
hey averaged 28 percent more in
e ventral brain stem.
Breast surgery may
promote well-being
Women who receive breast recon-
struction surgery during or after a
mastectomy show large improve-
ments in their emotional, social and
functional well-being, according to
new study from the multi-center
prospective Michigan Breast
Reconstruction Outcome Survey.
Two hundred and fifty mastecto-
my patients from 12 medical cen-
ters in the U.S. and Canada were
given surveys to examine their well-
being. Each patient took the survey
twice, once a few days before the
reconstructive surgery and once a
year after the surgery.
The study, led by University associ-
professor of plastic and recon-
structive surgery Edwin Wilkins and
published in the October issue of Plas-
tic and Reconstructive Surgery, found
that the largest boost in morale
occurred in women who received the
reconstructive surgery during the
sime operation as their mastectomy.
There was only a small difference
found between women who received
.*plants or their own tissue.
Teenage smoking
may contribute
to depression
Nicotine or other smoking byprod-
ucts may have a depressive effect on the
central nervous system, according to a
study by Elizabeth Goodman, an ado-
lescent-medicine specialist at Chil-
#n's Hospital Medical Center of
Cincinnati.
The study examined data from teens
-4yestioned between 1995 and 1996.
ilte nationwide questioning included
8 704 teens who were not initially
dcpressed and 6,947 teens who were
not initially smokers.
Afher a year, 4.8 percent of nonsmok-
ers had developed depressed symptoms
#ile 12 percent of smokers smoking at
st a part a day were depressed.
1he study did not examine whether
ubjects who smoked more had
irwreased depression, but some of the
-,er findings suggest this may be the
case.
The study is published in the October
issue of the journal Pediatrics, a month-
ly journal of the American Academy of
. diatrics.
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Kelbaugh shares visions of ur an future
By Rachel Green
Daily Stall Repaner
The wave of the future in Douglas Kelbaugh's
eyes is urbanism, the trend to reinvent America's
metropolises into more livable environments.
Kelbaugh, dean of the Taubman College of
Architecture and Urban Planning, is known to
colleagues as the founder of the new urbanism
movement. He spoke to about 80 architectural
planners, University professors and students yes-
terday at a daylong conference focusing on land
use in Michigan.
Kelbaugh said he faults poor urban and subur-
ban planning since the 1950s for the population
shift out of the cities and into more isolated sub-
urbs. "Most new households do not have the typi-
cal 'Ozzy and Harriet' family, yet houses are still
being built for this sort of family," Kelbaugh said.
Many students who attended the address said
they agreed urbanism is an effective way to mend
America's cities.
SNRE and Urban Planning graduate student
Amy Cotter said she favors many of Kelbaugh's
ideas. "One of the interesting things about apply-
ing urbanism is that you'd be redeveloping used
land rather than just putting a dense development
on greenfield site (undeveloped farm land),
which seems to be where many new urbanist
developments are currently being built," she said.
The biggest problem with today's standard
suburbs, Kelbaugh said, is single-use zoning of
family houses divided by major highways that are
not hospitable to walkers.
He suggested smaller grid suburbs with easy
walking and public transportation access to pub-
licly owned town squares would make residential
areas more social.
In his plans for future residential development,
Kelbaugh suggested, "rather than having all the
land distributed to private houses, there's a public
green."
Kelbaugh said in an ideal neighborhood, front
porches would replace front yards and garages
would be in the rear of homes with alley access.
All of these changes would create a friendlier liv-
ing environment, Kelbaugh said.
Focusing the end of his speech on possible
changes in Detroit architecture to bring business
and residents back into the cultural centers of
the town, Kelbaugh showed slides of projections
for future communities within the city's borders.
Linda Bailey, an Urban Planning graduate stu-
dent, said the plan has worked well in areas of
Detroit where it has been instituted. "The one part
of Detroit I know really well is southwest Detroit
by West Vernor Highway," Bailey said.
"It does have this dense flavor and it's one of the
most successful neighborhoods in Detroit right
now,"shesaid.
I
1 Democrats wit draw ad
LANSING - Democrats changed
an ad criticizing U.S. Sen. Spence
Abraham's position on patient rights
legislation after Abraham's campaign
complained to television stations, the
political director of the Democratic
Senatorial Campaign Committee said
yesterday.
The ad, which was distributed to sta-
tions statewide, features Patricia
Luker, a Royal Oak woman whose 24-
year-old daughter, Jessica Baccus,
died last year of a rare metabolic dis-
order.
In the ad, Luker says she spent the
last days of her daughter's life battling
with her HMO over Jessica's care. She
also says she is angry with Abraham
for not supporting a Patient's Bill of
Rights.
"I did call his office so many times.
If I were from a big company that
could make a large donation, he proba-
bly would have returned my call. But I
was just Jessica's mom," she says in
the ad.
Attorneys for Abraham, a Republican
from Auburn Hills, sent letters to sta-
tions earlier this week asking themn ot
to run the ad because it "clearly contains
inaccuracies and false statements."
For example, Abraham's campaign
says the senator met with the Luker
family in October 1997 and that his
staff contacted the family several times
before that.
Luker says she did meet with Abra-
ham in 1997, but they discussed ama
unrelated topic. When she called
Abraham's office 12 times about her
daughter's HMO problems in 1999,
she says she got no response.
Abraham campaign manager Joe
McMonigle said he was "puzzled"
that Luker never received a
response, but insisted he wasn't
attacking the fanily.
Abraham's campaign also object-
ed to the ad's statement that "Abra-
ham has received S213,350 from
insurance companies." Under feder-
al campaign finance laws, cam-
paigns can't receive money directly
from corporations.
"We view this ad as very over the
top," McMonigle said. "The fact that
the Democrats keep changing their ad
is an admission on their part that this
ad is false.
Jim Jordan, political director of the
Democratic Senatorial Campaign
Committee, said Wednesday that the
committee decided to make minor
changes to the ad after some stations
expressed concern.
"I certainly understand the semantic
quibbles here, but the thrust of the ad
remains the same," Jordan said. "I
think it's absolutely despicable of the
Abraham campaign to attack Mrs.
Luker. It's in poor taste and poor polit-
ical judgment.
Michigan Democratic Party Chair Mark Brewer attacks Senator Spencer
Abraham's environmental record yesterday at the Michigan Union.
rewerriticizes
rbIaham, fighits
fo nvironmen
By Caitlin Nish
Daly StaffReporter
Michigan Demnocratic Party Chair
Mark Brewer toted "S580,000 worth"
of dirty water in bottles to campus
yesterday in an attempt to warn Uni-
versity students about incumbent Sen.
Spencer Abraham's environmental
voting record.
Brewer held a press conference
at the Michigan Union focused on
the Democratie Committee's
claim that Abraham has accepted
nore than S580,000 from anti-
environment interest g roups.
Brewer's visit was sponsored by
the Michigan Democratic Party
and the campus chapter of Col-
lege Democrats.
"Spence Abraham is the number
one recipient of anti-environment
money in the entire U.S. Senate,"
Brewer said.
Brewer then cited Abraham's
voting record, including voting
against money to improve drinking
water plants and water clean-up in
1998 and casting the deciding vote
to limit the Environmental Protec-
tion Agency's power to clean up
microbes in drinking water five
years ago.
Trent Wisecup, a spokesman for
Abraham's Michigan office, dismissed
Brewer's statements as a meaningless
campaign gimmick.
"Senator Abraham has a very
strong record on the environment,"
Wisecup said. "Mr. Brewer's attack on
Senator Abraham is false. It is another
sign that the Stabenow campaign is
getting desperate in the final stretch."
A poll taken last week by Lansing
polling firm EPIC/MRA found Abra-
ham still leading his Democratic
opponent, Lansing Rep. Debbie
Stabenow, 43 percent to 34 percent.
But an additional 24 percent of
those polled were undecided,
EPIC/MRA Vice President Ed Sarpo-
ius said, and Abraham leads 48 per-
cent to 43 percent when respondents
are broken down by party preference.
College Democrats President
Rebecca Perring said the environment
is an important issue in the way stu-
dents cast their ballots.
"The environment is consistently
rated in the top three issues important
to students,," Perring said. "We wanted
to get Abraham's record out in public
so students could make an educated
choice about the senatorial race in
Michigan.
Brewer said that although Abraham
may seem pro-environment, his voting
record is not. "He turns around and
collects at least half a million dollars
from the same people who have bene-
fited from his voting Brewer said.
To emphasize Abraham's environ-
mental record, Brwer joked about
selling bottles of Abraham's dirty
water for 5580,00( a bottle.
"We realized that Spence Abra-
ham was doing such a good job
sell ing out to ant i-environment
special interests that we got the
idea for Spence Abraham's Dirty
Water," Brewer said, displaying am
bottle of brown water emblazoned
with Abraham's picture.
He later added that the Democratic
Party would not sell the bottles of
water because they had decided that
it was not worth selling Michigan's
future.
Political Questions
Scientific}.gdl&e r
Director
of the
U.S. Census
Kenneth
Prewitt
Dr. Prewitt willtaddress
concers raised abut
the 2000 Census and
mfier ideas aboat hO
to keep the cesstis
accurate, timely, and
apolitical.
R1mspoitnses to
DIr Preitr etit:
Margo Anderson
ltimersity of Wisconsin
M-ilwaukee
Vince Hutchings
Univesit y ti 'aiictigani.
Political Science
John Kingdon
university of Miichiga.
Political Science
Robert Teeter
(oliwatier Associates,
Political Pollster
Thursday
October 5, 2000
7 pm
Rackham Aud.
915 E. Washington
Sponsorel by
lie Gjerald R. Ford
School of ItPiblic Policv
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tli Immstilumte' oli
Social Researei
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Correction:
* Pat Massey, a verbal commitment to the University's football program, was misidentified in yesterday's Daily.
HE CALENDAR
What's happening in Ann Arbor today
EVENTS
8 Dance Marathon Mass Meeting,
7:30 p.m., Michigan Union Ander-
son Room, 6151525
, "Rethinking Cultural Mixture:
The Travels of 'Leo Africanus,'"
Sponsored by the Institute for
the Humanities, 5:00 p.m..
Rackham Amphitheatre, 936-
3518
0 Music in the Park, Sponsored
by Herb David Guitar Studio and
Ann Arbor Parks Department'
Liberty Plaza, 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.,
665-8001
* "58 Greene and Gentlemen," Spon-
sored by Michi an League Pro-
rammng , 8:3 p.m., Michi an
eague derground, 763-4652
4 Victory over Vioence Discussion,
Sponsored by Victory over Vio-
lence Festival, 3:00 p.m. and
7:00 p.m., Alumni Center, 764-
1271
® "A Life with the Biwa: Fuman
Yoshinori and Musical Recitation
in Twentieth-Century Japan,"
Sponsored by Center for Japan-
ese Studies, noon, International
Institute, Room 1636, 764-6307
* Classical Music Young Performers
Series, Sponsored by Gifts of
Art, 12:10 p.m., University Hos-
pital Lobby, 936-ARTS
. "An Evening of Spanish Music,"
Guest recital, Sponsored by the
School of Music, 8:00 p.m., Brit-
ton Recital Hall, 763-4726
* "The Pedagogy of Action: The Cri-
sis of HIV and AIDS in South
Africa," Sponsored by the Cen-
ter for Afroamerican and African
Studies 12:!0 p.m., 209 West
Hall, 550 E. University, 764-
5513
SERVICES
* Campus Information Centers, 764-
INFO, info@umich.edu, and
www.umich.edu/-info on the
World Wide Web
* Northwalk, 763-WALK, Bursley
Lobby, 8 p.m.- 1:30 a.m.
Safewalk, 936-1000, Shapiro
Library Lobby, 8 p.m.- 2:30 a.m.
Student Mediation Services, 647-
7397, mediation@umich.edu,
and www.umich.edu/-sdrp
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