Capital Defendants with Intellectual Disability | Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law
Capital Defendants with Intellectual Disability | Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law http://jaapl.org/content/50/3/484?etocIn Jackson v. Payne, 9 F.4th 646 (8th Cir. 2021), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit affirmed the federal district court ruling that defendant Alvin Bernal Jackson was intellectually disabled and thus was ineligible for the death penalty. The Eighth Circuit found that the district court ' s ruling, which did not credit Mr. Jackson ' s adaptive functioning strengths, was consistent with Arkansas ' statutory requirements and U.S. Supreme Court precede...
Source: Intelligent Insights on Intelligence Theories and Tests (aka IQ's Corner) - September 2, 2022 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: blogs
The Human Protein Atlas (Neuropeptide Edition)
The more you study the brain, the more unknowable it becomes. The level of complexity is baffling, and this is true whether the brain belongs to a human or acrab.1 The latest uptick in human brain complexity was revealed from analysis of postmortem tissue in 17 subregions of prefrontal cortex (PFC).Zhong and colleagues (2022) found that 60 neuropeptides and 60 neuropeptide receptors are expressed in at least one of the PFC subregions. All the data are freely available (links are in the open access article) and incorporated into theHuman Protein Atlas— which has about 15 million individual web pages (according toWiki...
Source: The Neurocritic - August 31, 2022 Category: Neuroscience Authors: The Neurocritic Source Type: blogs
Friday Feature: National Microschooling Center
Colleen HroncichDespite their small size, microschools are having a big impact on education. And this week ’s launch of the new National Microschooling Center is likely to help as parents, teachers, and education entrepreneurs will now have a central hub for information and resources.“Microschools are designed in a way that every child can thrive, ” notes Ashley Soifer, Chief Innovation Officer at the National Microschooling Center. “Relationships are at the heart of microschooling, and as microschooling leaders build relationships with each child as an individual, it creates an educational opportuni...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - August 26, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Colleen Hroncich Source Type: blogs
Ayman al-Zawahri: the doctor who dispensed death
On May 2, 2011, a few minutes past 1 a.m. Pakistan Standard Time, a U.S. Navy SEAL Team Six left the Bagram Air Base in the Parwan Province of Afghanistan and headed for the compound of a high-value target in Abbottabad, Pakistan, located just a few miles away from that nation’s military academy. It was
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Ayman al-Zawahri: the doctor who dispensed death originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - August 17, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: Osmund Agbo, MD Tags: Physician Public Health & Policy Source Type: blogs
Elation Health Announces $50M Series D for Innovative Primary Care
Generation Investment Management and Ascension Ventures co-led the round for Elation’s primary care platform supporting practices in new payment models and more than 12.8 million patients
Elation Health, the clinical-first technology company powering innovation in primary care, today announced a Series D financing round of $50 million. Generation Investment Management, a firm established in 2004 to back businesses driving sustainability, co-led the round alongside Ascension Ventures with participation from Threshold Ventures, Ascend Partners, and individual investors including Fay Rotenberg and Jonathan Bush. This new r...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 10, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT Anthony Woolf Ascension Ventures Elation Health Generation Investment Management Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment John Kuelper Jonathan Bush Kyna Fong Source Type: blogs
Study: Building cognitive reserve helps delay memory and thinking decline regardless of genetic or childhood markers
Conclusion: The CRI and NART are independent measures of cognitive reserve since both modify the association between childhood cognition and cognitive state.
The Study in Context:
New book provides practical guidance for women (and men) to rebalance our lifestyles and build Cognitive Reserve
Build Your Cognitive Reserve: An Interview with Dr. Yaakov Stern
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Source: SharpBrains - August 8, 2022 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Brain/ Mental Health Education & Lifelong Learning APOE genotype building cognitive reserve childhood cognition cognitive-abilities cognitive-reserve dementia e4 allele healthy-living memory-decline mental-stimulation neurology r Source Type: blogs
The Nihilistic AAP Bronchiolitis Guidelines
Not only has the COVID-19 pandemic killed millions of people, but it has also caused disruptions in every imaginable aspect of our lives. One has been the seasonality of other diseases like influenza and respiratory syncytial virus infection. RSV infection is typically a winter disease, but here we are in the summer months and our pediatric emergency department is flooded with infants infected with RSV.I expressed concern about the 2014 American Academy of Pediatrics bronchiolitis guidelines three years ago. (EMN. 2019;41[1]:31; http://bit.ly/2TlwNj9.) Those comments have proven to have real-life clinical releva...
Source: M2E Too! Mellick's Multimedia EduBlog - August 5, 2022 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
Lou Lasagna and the MIC “Integrated Career Ladder” – More Than Just A “Revolving Door.”
BY MIKE MAGEE
The New York Times recently shinned a light on the FDA’s top science regulator of the tobacco industry, Matt Holman, who announced his retirement after 20 years to join Phillip Morris. As they noted, “To critics, Dr. Holman’s move is a particularly concerning example of the ‘revolving door’ between federal officials and the industries they regulate…”
As a Medical Historian, I’ve never been a fan of the casual “revolving door” metaphor because it doesn’t quite capture the highly structured and deliberate attempts of a variety of academic medical scientists over a number of decade...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 5, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Bonus Features – July 31, 2022 – House passes bill to extend telehealth flexibility to 2024, only 60% of practices hit their 2021 revenue goal, and more
This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.
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The U.S. House of Representatives passed by a 416-12 vote the Advancing Telehealth Beyond COVID–19 Act of 2021, which would extend the telehealth flexibilities put in place during the public health emergency until the e...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - July 31, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: C-Suite Leadership Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring AmerisourceBergen ArchWell Health athenahealth Availity Caption Health CHESS Health Clarify Health Digital Diagnostics Faitility Ful Source Type: blogs
Development of Bulgarian Healthcare and Social Care Periodicals - Thematic Sustainability, Exchange of Knowledge and Experience
This report compares the publication policy of Bulgarian periodicals in the health and... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - July 30, 2022 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Enhancing Junior Doctors ’ Working Lives: annual progress report 2022
Health Education England - This is the sixth report that looks at the achievements over the past year of the Enhancing Junior Doctors ’ Working Lives programme in providing improved support for doctors in training. The programme was established in March 2016, to address a range of issues that were having a significant negative impact on the quality of life of doctors in postgraduate training. Led by Health Education England (HEE ), it is a cross-system collaboration to drive and deliver system improvements and meaningful change to postgraduate medical training. HEE worked collaboratively with system partners in the...
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - July 26, 2022 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Workforce and employment Source Type: blogs
The Jones Act Is Forcing Puerto Rico to Overpay for Energy
Colin Grabow and Alfredo Carrillo ObregonPuerto Rico ’s electrical grid is (onceagain) on the brink of a crisis. For months, companies contracted to supply liquefied natural gas (LNG) and diesel fuel that the island relies on to generate electricity havefailed to fulfill their supply commitments amidst disruptions induced by Russia ’s invasion of Ukraine. But whereas other countries facing an energy crunch have been able to turn tofuelsproduced in the United States as an alternative, Puerto Rico is instead looking to countries as distant asOman. Behind this bewildering situation is a familiar culprit: theJones Act,...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 25, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Colin Grabow, Alfredo Carrillo Obregon Source Type: blogs
Artificial Intelligence (AI) meets Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT): Wysa raises $20M to scale up mental health chatbot
Wysa raises $20 million to expand its therapist chatbot into a wider set of mental health services (TechCrunch):
Wysa, a popular mental health app originally founded in India around an AI chatbot that helps users talk through their feelings, has raised $20 million in a Series B funding round to expand its business on the heels of hitting 4.5 million users in 65 countries.
The all-equity round is led by India’s digital health-focused venture capital fund HealthQuad, with participation also from British International Investment (BII), the U.K.’s development finance institution. The plan will be to use the money to double...
Source: SharpBrains - July 19, 2022 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Brain/ Mental Health Technology & Innovation AI chatbot British International Investment CBT cognitive-behavioral-therapy digital therapeutics HealthQuad mental health app therapist WhatsApp Wysa Source Type: blogs
Imaging Technique Shows Gene Expression in Real Time
A team at the University of Minnesota developed a new technique that lets them view gene expression in the brains of live mice in real time. The approach relies on two-photon excitation microscopy, specialized imaging processing techniques, and genetically modified mice that express mRNA that naturally includes a fluorescent protein. Using the method, the researchers were able to gain insights into how long-term memories are formed in the brain, and hope that this knowledge could lead to breakthroughs in understanding and treating Alzheimer’s disease. The method will likely also be useful in deciphering the mechanisms un...
Source: Medgadget - July 18, 2022 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Genetics Neurology gene expression UMNews Source Type: blogs
The Federal Global Migration and Quarantine Network: A Report From the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Lawrence O. Gostin (Georgetown University), Georges C. Benjamin (American Public Health Association), Tequam Worku (National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine), The Federal Global Migration and Quarantine Network: A Report From the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, J.... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - July 14, 2022 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
