Carla Shatz: Shattering the Glass Ceiling
http://www.brainfacts.org/about-neuroscience/meet-the-researcher/articles/2012/carla-shatz/ First woman to receive a PH.D in Neurobiology and chair the Neurobiology Department at Harvard Medical School.
http://www.brainfacts.org/about-neuroscience/meet-the-researcher/articles/2012/carla-shatz/ First woman to receive a PH.D in Neurobiology and chair the Neurobiology Department at Harvard Medical School.
http://www.jneurosci.org/content/33/24/10132.abstract This article provides new therapeutic hope for people suffering from the disease of alcoholism. Alcoholism impacts families worldwide, the costs of treatment are overwhelming including the...
"Fights between siblings – from toy-snatching to clandestine whacks to being banished from the bedroom – are so common they're often dismissed as simply part of growing up. Yet a new study from researchers at the University of New...
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"Canada is joining a group fighting online child sexual abuse around the world, Justice Minister Rob Nicholson said Monday. The Global Alliance Against Child Sexual Abuse Online , which includes the United States, the European Union and...
"Google is developing a new system that it claims will make it easier to detect and remove online images of child abuse. "The search company has come under intense pressure from politicians - including the prime minister - to make it more...
"NEW figures revealing the impact of child abuse show as many as one in ten survivors have contemplated or attempted suicide, amid demands for better support from health practitioners including GPs. "Analysis of more than 3500 calls over the past four...
"Here is Part III, as promised, covering Steps 4-6: Language of Choice, Language of Fear, and Careful With That Agni Sara! ... "Here's an example that will blow your mind. The other day I was in a class comprised entirely of survivors of violent crime...
"What we do not think about are the countless children who experience trauma just as harrowing but far too common to make headlines. Every day, children across the country face physical and sexual abuse, domestic violence, community violence, loss of...
"A front-page New York Times article a few years ago highlighted the growing number of veteran suicides, many resulting from post-traumatic stress disorder. Headlined "After Combat, Victims of an Inner War," the coverage included several video...
"The criticism of needle distribution in Thunder Bay is ongoing.... "I think the resistance to harm reduction runs deeper than a simple lack of understanding. Fear is part of it, but even more at play is the cultural myth perpetuated by our North...
"Peter Pollard, the Training and Outreach Director for 1in6, sends us a hopeful message for the future of male trauma informed awareness initiatives and response systems. "He reminds us where we were just a few years ago and how we have “widened...
"Aggression in school-age children may have its origins in children 3 years old and younger who witnessed violence between their mothers and partners, according to a new Case Western Reserve University study.... "Between three and 10 million children...