William Howard Kenneth Carpenter

Celebrating the work of William T. Carpenter Jr.

Genes and schizophrenia: from a Festschrift Seminar honoring William T. Carpenter Jr, MD.

Recent data have begun to elucidate the genetic architecture of schizophrenia, as well as provide new insights into the relationships of specific genetic factors across diagnostic boundaries, with specific symptom domains, and in the prediction of antipsychotic treatment response. Not surprisingly, work conducted at the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center (MPRC), led by Dr William Carpenter, h...

Electric Impedance of the Squid Giant Axon during Activity* by Kenneth S. Cole and Howard J. Curtis

The permeability of a membrane to a penetrating substance is given quantitatively by the amount of the substance which crosses a unit area of the membrane in unit time under the action of a unit force. In simple cases of ionized substances both the amount of substance and the force acting may be expressed in electrical terms. Then the permeability may be ultimately converted into coulombs per s...

The carpenter syndrome phenotype.

Carpenter syndrome (Acrocephalopolysyndactyly type II), first described in 1901, consists of acrocephaly, syndactyly, polydactyly, congenital heart disease, mental retardation, hypogenitalism, cryptorchidism, obesity, umbilical hernia and bony abnormalities. We report a 6 years old boy presenting as a union of these malformations and also having bilateral sensorineural hearing loss. Auditory di...

Kenneth Catania

R4 Current Biology 27, R1–R18, January 9, 2017 At the time of going to press, the nominations have not included the post of a science advisor, so scientists in the US and their world-leading institutions and associations are wondering how, if at all, verifi able facts from the real world can reach the president. Writing in Science magazine, the CEO of the American Association for the Advancemen...