Media Coverage
Jul 31 2017 | Stanford Medicine - Scope
In our over-stressed world, many health care providers, social workers, and caregivers are suffering from slow yet painful burnout. Many of the rest of us, working long hours and raising families, seem to be approaching burnout, too.
Jul 31 2017 | Stanford Medicine - Scope
Last week, the FDA announced a new, two-part plan for tobacco and nicotine regulation.
Jul 27 2017 | Stanford Medicine - Scope
Male mice are naturally territorial. In the wild or in the lab, they attack other male mice even if plenty of room, food and females are available. This behavior is under the control of a small nerve circuit in the male mouse’s brain; disabling the circuitry shuts off the defending male’s — or any...
Jul 26 2017 | Stanford Medicine - Scope
The “psych ward” remains among the most stigmatized places in modern medicine. Despite more-accepting public attitudes toward mental-health care, inpatient psychiatric units continue to evoke frightening images of patients strapped to beds, electroconvulsive therapy and rooms with padded walls.
Jul 25 2017 | Stanford Medicine - Scope
A new study that suggests football players have an increased risk of developing chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, which is a progressive degenerative brain disease associated with repetitive head trauma.
Jul 24 2017 | Stanford Medicine - Scope
If there’s something that you want to do, you do it. You know that there are going to be sacrifices and compromises, but ultimately this your decision.
Jul 24 2017 | Stanford Medicine - Scope
A Stanford team found that amyloid beta did not form into the plaques and fibrils characteristic of Alzheimer’s disease when in the presence of cathelicidin. Instead, the results indicate the two compounds form a stable non-toxic complex.
Jul 23 2017 | The Washington Post
Psychiatric units continue to be the hidden corners of hospitals, the secluded floors that many hope to avoid. Patients openly chat with friends and family about trips to emergency departments, primary-care clinics and even operating rooms, but this isn’t so for stays on inpatient psychiatric units...
Jul 21 2017 | Blooberg View
Addiction changes the brain in lasting ways, and some brains are more vulnerable than others.
Jul 20 2017 | Newsweek
Men and women who believe they’re less active than their peers may be more likely to die younger than those who simply think they’re more active—even if their activity levels are equal, according to a new study published in Health Psychology.
