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Texas invests $50M in psychedelic drug research to treat addiction

Medical Xpress

A 2024 study published in the journal Nature Medicine found that military veterans with brain injuries saw major mental and physical improvements after just one ibogaine session. Some studies suggest it may help people stop using opioids or other drugs, even after just one session. In Brazil, the therapy has helped thousands.

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Rewiring the body clock: Deep brain imaging reveals unexpected complexity in jet lag adjustment

Medical Xpress

What is known is that special cells in the eye called intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells (ipRGCs) detect blue light and send signals to the SCN to reset the clock. This achievement is the result of an interdisciplinary collaboration among researchers in life science, physics, and computer science.

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Anti-Asian Hate: Russell Jeung, Lingsheng Li, & Jessica Eng

GeriPal

And in our reporting center, we tracked physical assaults, verbal harassment. We could wear masks against Covid, but we couldn’t vaccinate against racism. And also physical assault from serious injuries to just kind of hearing about friends who have died from this incident. So we actually included that in our survey.

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Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

GeriPal

Alex: But the longer title’s Ethno-Geriatrics and Special Populations. In the United States in 2023, the truth of the matter is you don’t need very many individual risk factors to become homeless. Maybe vaccines, maybe. HPV vaccine. Margot: Yes. They were working usually more than one job. Margot: Right.

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

GeriPal

Go back in your mind, November of 2020, COVID is at its peak, we don’t have vaccines quite yet. Just think about something like a nurse visit, a nursing visit, or a physical therapy visit. We’re moving back to an earlier time, in a way, in which the locus of care wasn’t in these highly specialized hospitals.

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