Student-athlete health and well-being, and how these are affected by injury, including concussion, are important issues from pre-collegiate to professional sports.
A team led by Ralph Jimenez of JILA is studying neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s by measuring neurons firing deep inside animal brains.
New research reveals that children raised in a rural environment, surrounded by animals and bacteria-laden dust, grow up to have more stress-resilient immune systems and might be at lower risk of mental illness than pet-free city dwellers.
When holding hands appeared to relieve his wife’s pain during the delivery of their daughter, postdoctoral pain researcher Pavel Goldstein was inspired to learn more.
