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Can video games help children and adolescents with mental health issues like anxiety, ADHD or depression? A Johns Hopkins study led by psychiatrist Barry Bryant aimed to find out. Bryant: What we found were about 30 randomized controlled trials looking …
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Mental health issues are skyrocketing among US youth, data shows. Barry Bryant, a psychiatrist at Johns Hopkins, wondered whether technology might be able to step into this gap with a recent study looking at video games for three common mental …
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Skin biopsies can diagnose both Parkinson’s disease and other neurological conditions called prion diseases, recent studies show. Ted Dawson, Johns Hopkins Parkinson’s expert, predicts that soon, blood will supplant skin for detection of these incorrectly folded proteins. Dawson: We also …
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More than 200,000 people in the US alone are diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease yearly, but it can be caused by multiple forms of a misfolded protein called alpha synuclein. Ted Dawson, a Parkinson’s expert at Johns Hopkins, says managing the …
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