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Mashup Score: 75Colloquy Podcast: Meditation Changes Your Brain. Here's How. - 10 day(s) ago
Mental health professionals increasingly recommended meditation to treat anxiety and depression and help manage stress. Neuroscientist Richard Davidson, PhD ’76, explains how this age-old practice changes the brain—and how his research was enabled by a collaboration with the Dalai Lama.
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Mashup Score: 63Sound Mind - 17 day(s) ago
Aaron Berkowitz traveled to Haiti in 2012 to teach neurology in a country where there were virtually no doctors in that field. Thankfully, his PhD in music had taught him to improvise—and to listen.
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Aaron Berkowitz’s effort to improve neurological care in some of the world’s most impoverished regions was shaped by his study of musicology at @Harvard https://t.co/zZ3Y1yafOl
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Mashup Score: 28Mind Mapper - 6 month(s) ago
New brain research maps the networks used in decision-making and complex memory tasks and brings that knowledge to an innovative treatment for depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
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Wendy Sun, MD candidate at HMS and PhD student at @HarvardGSAS, discusses how the power of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) may change brain activity and help personalize treatment for specific depressive symptoms https://t.co/ZWdMDPlYLH
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Mashup Score: 1A Healthy Concern for AI - 6 month(s) ago
New research finds that important stakeholders are often left out of the process of designing and developing machine learning models for healthcare—often by institutions with the resources to produce the most innovative technologies.
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A Healthy Concern for #AI https://t.co/Khb3f2gVc6) #MedEd #PM101 #ML Excellent points that directly address ongoing institutional problems with delivering optimal healthcare: "Zilberstein’s story illustrates the way that AI developers can make inaccurate assumptions in the… https://t.co/G8IGHaBZmh
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Mashup Score: 9Turning Cancer on Itself - 10 month(s) ago
PhD student Liang Chang is pioneering a new approach to cancer treatment, one that targets the genes required for the disease’s growth and survival.
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The research is taking a new approach to cancer treatment, one that targets the genes required for the disease’s growth and survival https://t.co/APIMggU22W
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Mashup Score: 2
For many, the holiday season’s combination of festivities, family, and food makes this time of year joyous. If you’re one of the nearly 29 million Americans who deal with an eating disorder at some point in your lifetime, though, the holidays can be hell—much like the rest of the year. In this episode of the Colloquy podcast, Harvard Medical School Professor Anne Becker, PhD ’90, one of the…
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In this podcast, HMS professor Anne Becker, a leading expert on eating disorders, talks about why the illnesses are so deadly, why they so often go undiagnosed, and what we can do to help friends or family members who may be suffering https://t.co/bXVAch5Aer
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Mashup Score: 4The Best Therapy for Each Patient - 2 year(s) ago
GSAS Voices: Deborah Plana, PhD ’22
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MD-PhD student Deborah Plana is working to improve survival outcomes for cancer patients by developing new data analysis tools for clinical trials and preclinical experiments https://t.co/BRLLU2c3GN
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Mashup Score: 1Minding the Gap - 2 year(s) ago
McDowell reveals the inequities that impact the health of transgender and gender-diverse people—and the policies that could address them
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Health policy scholar Alex McDowell is working to advance understanding of the impact of discrimination on the health of gender-diverse individuals and to increase access to lifesaving care https://t.co/LezJ6Zv5fU
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Mashup Score: 1The Great Frustration - 2 year(s) ago
Cities that were once beacons of opportunity for Black Americans are now places of poverty and despair. How did it happen?
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RT @asanakpan: The Great Frustration https://t.co/Giil1c4wbp
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Mashup Score: 26Signal of Strength - 3 year(s) ago
Anita Reddy studies the ways that muscles communicate to initiate regeneration and repair
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In the HMS lab of Edward Chouchani, PhD student Anita Reddy explores the ways that muscles signal to cells involved in regeneration and repair https://t.co/xp0gisVPh3
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How exactly does meditation change the brain? Neuroscientist Richard Davidson explains. https://t.co/cAWg8IHvph