Nancy Rappaport, HMS associate professor of psychiatry at Cambridge Health Alliance, was a guest contributor to discuss “ALICE,” a strategy that drafts children into counter-attacks on school shooters, is not worth the risk.
Unconfirmed news reports after the Connecticut school shooting that gunman Adam Lanza had been diagnosed with a milder form of autism prompted strongly-worded statements from autism advocacy groups that the developmental disorder was not associated with “planned violence.” Martha Herbert, HMS assistant professor of neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital, is quoted.
The word “detoxification” is flung around the fitness community as frequently as kettlebells are swung. Yoga teachers regularly speak of detoxifying twists, aerobics instructors of detoxifying sweat, dieters of detoxifying fasts. But health professionals are skeptical. Elizabeth Matzkin, HMS assistant professor of orthopedic surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, is quoted.
On the anniversary of a historic transplant surgery by Joseph Murray, HMS professor of surgery, emeritus, the author offers a perspective on bridging the divide between science and religion. Murray died at age 93 shortly after Thanksgiving.
A team led by Konstantina Stankovic, HMS assistant professor of otology and laryngology at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, has developed a way to harvest a tiny bit of power from a natural electrical source in the mammalian ear.
Alvin Poussaint, HMS professor of psychiatry and faculty associate dean for student affairs, discussed how to handle communicating the Newtown, CT, shooting to children.
The long-term use of anabolic-androgenic steroids (AAS) may severely impact theuser’s ability to accurately recall the shapes and spatial relationships of objects, according to a recent study. Harrison Pope, HMS professor of psychiatry at McLean Hospital, led the study.
Peter Dews, the Stanley Cobb Professor of Psychiatry and Psychobiology, emeritus, who in the 1950s helped lay the groundwork for the emerging field of behavioral pharmacology, died Nov. 2 in Brigham and Women’s Hospital at the age of 90.
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute has been named part of a Stand Up to Cancer “dream team” focused on treatments aimed at prompting a person’s own immune system to attack cancer cells. Glenn Dranoff, HMS professor of medicine at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, leads the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center program on cancer immunology.
