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Do You Know? Study Links Chocolate to Nobel Prize Winners
Chocolate Consumption, Cognitive Function, and Nobel Laureates
N Engl J Med 2012; 367:1562-1564
Chocolate consumption could hypothetically improve cognitive function not only in individuals but in whole populations. Could there be a correlation between a country’s level of chocolate consumption and its total number of Nobel laureates per capita?
Dr. Frank H. Messerli, of St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital and Columbia University, writes of the cognitive benefits of chocolate and the linear correlation he found between chocolate consumption and the number of Nobel Prize winners in 23 countries. Read the article, published in the New England Journal of Medicine on October 18, 2012.
What’s your chocolate consumption?
AACR Journals – Enhancement Highlights
The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) has introduced several enhancements on their online journal platform to include:
Archival journal content: All AACR historical journal content is available to the public. Content from the Journal of Cancer Research, 1916–1930, and American Journal of Cancer, 1931–1940 was successfully uploaded onto the Cancer Research HighWire journal platform. Cancer Research content now represents close to 100 years of oncology research and development.
Mobile Access: MSKCC users can now access the full text of AACR journals through their mobile devices. The mobile journal sites are fully functional on the iPhone, iPod Touch, and Android phones and tablets. You will be able to email article links to yourself for later reference, and save articles to your Favorites list using the app. The app also includes a caching feature enabling you to read the full text of articles in your Favorites even when your device is offline. You will still be able to access the mobile edition even when you are not connected to the MSKCC network by obtaining a voucher code that associates your mobile device with the MSKCC network. Instructions on activating mobile access can be found here.
You can access AACR journals from here or through the MSKsearch search box on the Library’s homepage.