Click Here to Read: The Passenger depicts the Holocaust and its aftermath in opera form By Fred Mazelis on the World Socialist Web Site on July 25, 2014.
The Passenger [Photo ©Stephanie Berger/Lincoln Center Festival]
Researcher shows how stress hormones promote brain’s building of negative memories
Click Here to Read: Researcher shows how stress hormones promote brain’s building of negative memories on The Medical Xpress Research Website on July 24, 2014.
The ASU study’s findings about stress hormones, such as cortisol (3-D rendering seen above), are important as they pertain to women, since women are twice as likely to develop disorders from stress and trauma that affect memory, such as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Credit: Wikimedia Commons
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Spark for a Stagnant Search: A $650 Million Donation for Psychiatric Research
Click Here to Read: Spark for a Stagnant Search: A $650 Million Donation for Psychiatric Research By Carl Zimmer and Benedict Carey in The New York Times on July 21, 2014.
“You’re talking to a guy who went from psychotic to normal with some pills,” said Jonathan Stanley, who was found to have bipolar disorder in the 1980s. The donation of a foundation started by his father is one of the largest private gifts ever for scientific research. Credit Max Reed for The New York Times
