LOCAL/STATE The Michigan Daily - Thursday, October 5, 2000 - 3A 1HIGUR sD 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. - Comtplied bar Dailr Stacer Liise-V Aoert 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 anl tli Immstilumte' oli Social Researei L; 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.. 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