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Addiction, Schizophrenia, Dyslexia: All in the Family

May 21, 2018

Professor Jason Tougaw tells stories of his counterculture parents and explores his family’s experiences with addiction and schizophrenia, along with his own dyslexia, in The One You Get: Portrait of a Family Organism. Read more ›

New Hope for Treating Depression

May 21, 2018

| The City College of New York, The Graduate Center

Julia Castello, Ph.D. candidate in biochemistry at The Graduate Center, CUNY, explores how the protein CK2 could play a key role in changing the antidepressant landscape. Read more ›

Travel for Business at Your Own Risk

May 21, 2018

| Hunter College, The Graduate Center

A new study co-authored by Professor Tracey Revenson has found that there are behavioral and mental health consequences for people who travel for business more than two weeks a month. Read more ›

A Better Life for Captive Birds of Prey? Try Scented Care Packages

May 21, 2018

| The Graduate Center

New research co-authored by doctoral student Melissa Nelson Slater shows that the olfactory senses of birds of prey may be more important than expected. Read more ›

Discovery of Oldest Primate Skeleton Reveals They Lived in Trees

May 21, 2018

| Brooklyn College, The Graduate Center

The discovery of 62-million-year-old primate bones in New Mexico has provided fresh evidence about how these earliest primates lived. Read more ›

Video Games Help Syrian Refugee Children Code — and Cope

May 18, 2018

| The Graduate Center

Project Hope used game education to develop Turkish-language proficiency, executive functions, and coding skills while alleviating symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder and depression. Read more ›

When It Comes to Love and Mating, We Have a Lot in Common With Zebra Finches

May 18, 2018

| Hunter College, The City College of New York, The Graduate Center

New research conducted by CUNY scientists studying the zebra finch, a type of songbird, could lead to further understanding of how social interactions generally are regulated by brain reward systems. Read more ›