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How To Build Creativity On And Off-Line, In Childhood And Beyond
Creativity is a fundamental building block of our humanity. It’s the relentless engine that’s driven progress since the dawn of time and propelled us towards so many of our gr...Full Article
$5.5 Million NIH Grant Supports New Tests To Diagnose Dementias Earlier And Easier
With a $5.5 million, five-year award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), researchers at Case Western Reserve University will seek to further develop new diagnostic t...Full Article
NIH Holds COVID-19 Vaccine Kick-off Event
The National Institutes of Health held a livestreamed COVID-19 vaccination event to kick-off NIH’s vaccination efforts for its employees on the front line of the COVID-19 pand...
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International Association of Women Recognizes Budy Jamilly Whitfield, LCSW, as a 2020-2021 Influencer
The International Association of Women (IAW) recognizes Budy Jamilly Whitfield as a 2020-2021 Influencer. She is acknowledged as a leader in mental health. The International A...Full Article
Covid-19 Spurs Anxious, Upsetting Dreams
The anxiety, stress and worry brought on by COVID-19 is not limited to daytime hours. The pandemic is affecting our dreams as well, infusing more anxiety and negative emotions...Full Article
'Someone who looks like you’ - Ernest Grant, RN, PhD, FAAN president of American Nurses Association and an African American, shares why he is participating in COVID-19 vaccine trial at UNC-Chapel Hill.
Spending a few hours at a University of North Carolina Health clinic, giving his health history and receiving an injection, might not be Ernest Grant’s favorite way to spend a...
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U.S. CDC Committee Of Independent Health Experts Recommends Vaccination With Pfizer And Biontech Covid-19 Vaccine For Persons Ages 16 Years And Older
Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) and BioNTech SE (Nasdaq: BNTX) announced that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices ...Full Article
New Guide for Prospective and New Parents Helps Them Be Tech Wise With Bab
A new resource designed specifically for expectant and new parents is aiming to help families cultivate healthy screen time habits—for their child and for parents/caregivers w...Full Article
Paralyzed Veterans Of America Launches Holiday Hope For Heroes To Provide A Lifeline To Veterans And Other People With Disabilities During This Crisis
This holiday season comes as many high-risk paralyzed veterans have been trapped in their homes for months, and as military suicides are up 20% over last year. In response, Pa...Full Article
St. Jude Psychologists Release Tips for Helping People Through Their First Covid-19 Holiday Season
With the first COVID-19 holiday season upon us, many Americans are anticipating the difficult challenge of how to celebrate this year. To help families across the country, the...Full Article
The Good Cough and the Bad Cough: Treating Coughs in a Targeted Way, Based on Their Type
Researchers might be able to treat a troublesome cough in disease without disrupting the protective cough we need for optimal lung health, by targeting the different brain cir...Full Article
Personality Traits Affect Shelter At Home Compliance
A worldwide survey conducted during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic found that people with certain common personality traits were less likely to shelter at home when g...Full Article
Stress In America 2020 Survey Signals A Growing National Mental Health Crisis
Stress from COVID-19 — along with stress related to health care, the economy, racism and the presidential election — is seriously threatening the mental health of our country,...Full Article
St. Jude’s Leading Virologists Release Insights Into Top Five Questions About Covid and the Flu
With winter’s dual influenza season and COVID, Richard Webby, Ph.D, a member of the Infectious Diseases Department at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and the World Healt...Full Article
Alzheimer's Association and CVS Health Join Together To Fight Alzheimer's for Second Consecutive Year
For the second consecutive November, the Alzheimer's Association and CVS Health will join together for an in-store fundraising campaign aimed at fighting Alzheimer's disease –...Full Article
Dementia is Top 3 Neurological Disorder according to New JAMA Research
The U.S. Census Bureau estimates that there are 73 million baby boomers in the nation. As the baby boomer population — defined as adults born from 1946 to 1964 — continues to ...Full Article
Biometric Data, Algorithms To Unlock Key Information About Circadian Clock
Anyone who has experienced a midafternoon energy slump or suffered from jetlag has felt the effects of their body’s circadian rhythm. This internal clock helps regulate many o...Full Article
Covid-19 Safety Protocols Keep Clinical Staff Infection Rates Low At Ohio State
Universal COVID-19 pandemic protocols in place at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center such as masking, hand hygiene, physical distancing and testing of symptomatic...Full Article
Tourette Association of America and American Brain Foundation Offer Clinical Research Training Scholarship
The Tourette Association of America and the American Brain Foundation have announced the 2021 Clinical Research Training Scholarship in Tourette Syndrome that aims to recogniz...Full Article
Google, Facebook and Twitter Collaborate to Support Recovery Month
The Center for Safe Internet Pharmacies (CSIP) - a non-profit dedicated to consumer protection and education around online pharmacies and prescription drugs - and a coalition ...Full Article
2020 Pardes Humanitarian Prize in Mental Health Honors Global Advocates for the Poor and Children with Psychiatric Illness
The Brain & Behavior Research Foundation announced the winners of the 2020 Pardes Humanitarian Prize in Mental Health: Myrna Weissman, Ph.D, for her transformative work in the...
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Introducing Sean’s Legacy, an Online Grassroots Organization Elevating the Conversation Around LGBTQ+ Youth Suicide Prevention
Introducing Sean’s Legacy, an online grassroots organization elevating the conversation around LGBTQ+ youth suicide prevention and encouraging others to foster a safe space in...Full Article
Mission Homefront: Translating Research into Practice in Veterans Healthcare
In keeping with its commitment to improving veterans healthcare, Jonas Philanthropies has announced its first-ever virtual conference: Mission Homefront: Translating Research...Full Article
NDEAM 2020 – “Increasing Access and Opportunity” for Americans with Disabilities
2020 is a year unlike any other. This year will be long remembered for the confluence of the COVID-19 pandemic, the resulting economic crisis and the hotly contested president...Full Article
Vitamin B1 Deficiency A Key Factor in the Development of Alcohol-Related Dementia
A common consequence of chronically high alcohol consumption is a decline in cognitive function, which can even progress to full-blown dementia. However, we do not yet fully u...Full Article