The NCAA, which has been sued dozens of times for its role in handling concussions, will help fund an expanded $22.5 million study to examine the impacts of head injuries.
A few influential “serial entrepreneurs” in Indiana universities feel an itch to turn their discoveries into products and companies, over and over again.
The Indiana University School of Medicine is increasing the number of psychiatrists it trains each year, with support from more than $4.7 million in grant funding. The money, from Lafayette-based North Central Health Services, will allow the medical school to increase the number of general psychiatry residents admitted into the program each year from six to […]
There is more evidence that THC, especially when used in addictive patterns, may actually make it harder for some patients to stop using opioids and other addictive drugs.
If there’s a model volunteer at Indiana University Health’s Riley Hospital for Children, it might be Kurt Bassett. Though Bassett lives with autism, it doesn’t define him.
Nearly 500 fourth-year medical students from Indiana University School of Medicine and Marian University College of Osteopathic Medicine got “matched” Friday with a residency program, and many of them will stay in Indiana to complete the next phase of training.
Marijuana legalization is enjoying a surge of support, both among American voters and 2020 presidential candidates. But that enthusiasm has led to some hasty claims about the drug’s usefulness that aren’t borne out by research. Five years ago—as the country’s opioid crisis had just started garnering national attention—a study got a lot of buzz suggesting […]
MindX founders think they’ve found a scientific way to measure pain and other hard-to-quantify mental health conditions, such as suicide risk, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder.
This year saw the deaths of people who shifted culture through prose, pragmatism and persistence. It also witnessed tragedy, with talent struck down in its prime.
The grants ranged in size from $6,000 to $14.47 million and covered almost every aspect of medicine from neurology and psychiatry to anesthesiology and emergency care.
For 40 years, Dr. Daniel Shull has been the medical director at New Hope and has learned a thing or two about caring for the organization’s special patient population.
Hoosier company leaders are now warding off increased feelings of isolation, anxiety, burnout and depression with virtual water coolers and doughnut deliveries.
West Lafayette-based Bioanalytical Systems’ latest executive departure comes amid recent signs of stability, turnaround and growth for a company that just three years ago was on the verge of sinking.
With data indicating that anxiety and depression, among other mental health problems, have surged to historic levels in recent months, adding toxic positivity to the mix may only exacerbate the rising tide of negative emotions by preventing people from working through the serious issues they’re experiencing in a healthy way, experts say.
With school re-openings—or partial re-openings—just around the corner, many parents are wondering how they can help their children wade back into the world.
The impact of resistance training on emotional disorders is an emerging area of exercise science, according to Jacob Meyer, an assistant professor of kinesiology at Iowa State University.
