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New Report Finds Current Strategies Insufficient for Preventing the Most Preventable Cause of Mental Illness

Childhood maltreatment is the No. 1 preventable cause of mental illness yet science still has no clear answers for how to best prevent the spiral of neglect and abuse that threatens millions of infants and children
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Senior Dana Alliance Couple Demystifies Dyslexia

Dana Alliance members Sally and Bennett Shaywitz were featured in The New York Times for updating a study they began in 1983 on dyslexia.

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Technology and Addiction Take Center Stage at Neuroethics Meeting

Key topics at this year's International Neuroethics Society meeting include rapid technological advances and addiction, featuring a lecture by Tom Insel, M.D., on mental healthcare data.

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Eric Kandel is Alan Alda’s Podcast Guest

On the latest episode of the Clear + Vivid podcast, host Alan Alda, sits down with old friend and Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives member Eric R. Kandel
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Football Addresses Head Trauma

With football season around the corner, the NFL is enforcing new rules in an effort to reduce head trauma on the field.

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Brain’s Unconscious Loss Processing May Support Grief Resolution

As psychiatry grapples with how to differentiate “normal” grief from bereavement-related depression and otherwise complicated or prolonged grief, one young scientist is tackling these questions from an altogether different angle.

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An Observatory for the (Mouse) Brain

The Allen Institute for Brain Science is trying to boldly go where no man—or lab—has gone before with a shared experimental program inviting neuroscientists around the globe to suggest studies and reap results using the Allen Brain Observatory.
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Living with Parkinson’s

This week, legendary actor Alan Alda’s announced his diagnosis with Parkinson’s disease and said one of the reasons he was speaking out was to offer a message of hope to others who are living with the disease.
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There’s No Brain in the World Like Yours

Learning that it’s possible to identify individuals based on their brains’ anatomical features alone, a new question is raised about the process of “normalizing” brains for neuroimaging studies.
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In Memoriam: Nobel Laureate Arvid Carlsson, a Pioneer in Parkinson’s Treatment

We regret to announce the loss of Dana Alliance member Arvid Carlsson, M.D., Ph.D., whose research laid the groundwork for the treatment of Parkinson’s disease and won him the Nobel Prize in 2000.
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