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Weekly JAMA Feature for February 2
LOWER BRAINSTEM SEROTONIN LEVELS ASSOCIATED WITH SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME
JAMA RADIO REPORT
Each week, JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association produces a one-minute radio news package, and makes it available to stations free of charge at www.TheJAMAReport.org
Producers can download MP3 versions of the packages, and are free to edit the pieces and/or use the actualities as best suits their stations’ needs.
Each week, JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association produces a one-minute radio news package, and makes it available to stations free of charge at www.TheJAMAReport.org
Producers can download MP3 versions of the packages, and are free to edit the pieces and/or use the actualities as best suits their stations’ needs.
This week’s package has an embargo: 4pm(ET) Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Radio script (TRT APPROX. :59)
February 2, 2010
VO: SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME OR SIDS IS THE LEADING CAUSE OF UNEXPECTED DEATH IN BABIES ONE MONTH TO ONE YEAR. A NEW STUDY FINDS DECREASED LEVELS OF SEROTONIN IN THE BRAINSTEMS OF SIDS BABIES.
“We found that the babies who died of SIDS had abnormalities in serotonin in regions of the brainstem that control breathing and heart rate and blood pressure during sleep.”
VO: DR. HANNAH KINNEY FROM CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL BOSTON AND CO-AUTHORS, REVIEWED AUTOPSY RESULTS OF 41 SIDS BABIES, AND SEVEN WHO DIED FROM KNOWN CAUSES BETWEEN 2004 AND 2008. THE STUDY APPEARS IN THIS WEEK’S JAMA, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION.
“There was a 26 percent decrease in the level of serotonin, a 22 percent decrease in the level of tryptophan hydroxylase, the enzyme that makes serotonin and over 50 percent decreases in receptors in different regions of the brain stem.”
VO: CATHERINE DOLF, THE JAMA REPORT.
Radio script (TRT APPROX. :59)
February 2, 2010
VO: SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME OR SIDS IS THE LEADING CAUSE OF UNEXPECTED DEATH IN BABIES ONE MONTH TO ONE YEAR. A NEW STUDY FINDS DECREASED LEVELS OF SEROTONIN IN THE BRAINSTEMS OF SIDS BABIES.
“We found that the babies who died of SIDS had abnormalities in serotonin in regions of the brainstem that control breathing and heart rate and blood pressure during sleep.”
VO: DR. HANNAH KINNEY FROM CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL BOSTON AND CO-AUTHORS, REVIEWED AUTOPSY RESULTS OF 41 SIDS BABIES, AND SEVEN WHO DIED FROM KNOWN CAUSES BETWEEN 2004 AND 2008. THE STUDY APPEARS IN THIS WEEK’S JAMA, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION.
“There was a 26 percent decrease in the level of serotonin, a 22 percent decrease in the level of tryptophan hydroxylase, the enzyme that makes serotonin and over 50 percent decreases in receptors in different regions of the brain stem.”
VO: CATHERINE DOLF, THE JAMA REPORT.