Click Here to Read: Erasing Painful Memories: Drug and Behavioral Therapies Will Help Us Forget Toxic Thoughts, The caustic imprint of a traumatic memory may fade or vanish with new drug and behavioral therapies By Jerry Adler in Scientific American on May 10, 2012.
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Knowing Your Way Around
Hooked: Why bad habits are hard to break
Click Here to View: Hooked: Why bad habits are hard to break on the Sixty Minutes website on April 29, 2012. Dr. Nora Volkow, head of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, has revolutionized how science and medicine view addiction: as a disease, not a character defect. Morley Safer reports.
Click Here to Read: Nora Volkow on the Wikepedia website.
Insights From the Youngest Minds
Neuroscientists discover key protein responsible for controlling nerve cell protection
Earth Day: Discussing the Coming Climate Crisis With Heidi Cullen
Click Here to Read: Earth Day: Discussing the Coming Climate Crisis With Heidi Cullen Record-breaking heat. Floods. Droughts. Tornadoes. Don’t believe the skeptics—the evidence of climate change is all around us. An interview with climatologist Heidi Cullen on the Daily Beast website on April 22, 2012.
Veterans and Brain Disease
Click Here to Read: Veterans and Brain Disease By Nicholas D. Kristof in the New York Times on April 25, 2012.
Neuroscience of need: Understanding the addicted mind
Click Here to Read: Neuroscience of need: Understanding the addicted mind By Bruce Goldman Photographs by Kelly Hennigan on the Stanford Medicine website.