Rates of overweight children and adolescents are reaching epidemic proportions, nearly tripling over the past 30 years. Many barriers exist to healthy eating and physical activity for children and adolescents, including factors in the school and community environments. It is these modifiable school environmental factors that led to the development of the Nutrition Friendly Schools and Communiti...

Methylphenidate and other psychostimulants, originally developed to treat attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder, are increasingly abused by healthy adolescents and adults seeking an advantage in scholastic performance and work productivity. However, how these drugs may affect cognitive performance, especially in the young brain, remains unclear. Here, we review recent literature and emphasiz...

Theoretical neuroscience has experienced explosive growth over the past 20 years. In addition to bringing new researchers into the field with backgrounds in physics, mathematics, computer science, and engineering, theoretical approaches have helped to introduce new ideas and shape directions of neuroscience research. This review presents some of the developments that have occurred and the lesso...

It might sound odd to say this about something people deal with at least three times a day, but food in America has been more or less invisible, politically speaking, until very recently. At least until the early 1970s, when a bout of food price inflation and the appearance of books critical of industrial agriculture (by Wendell Berry, Francis Moore Lappé, and Barry Commoner, among others) thre...

(on the shoulder of reinforcement learning and decision making models) What are the big problems that neuroscience could solve? • mood disorder (Depression, Bipolar ..) : ~ 10% of the population (at some point in life) in US • anxiety disorder (Panic, OCD, PTSD): ~18% of the population • addiction: alcohol ~ 10% of the population (at some point in life) • eating disorder (Anorexia, Bulimia): ~ ...

A report of a patient with Lazarus phenomenon (the return of spontaneous circulation after cardiopulmonary resuscitation) following cardiac arrest (myocardium ischemia) is presented. A 65 year patient was found unconscious at home. He taken to the emergency department On arrival he was unconscious, his pupils fixed and dilated bilaterally. Resuscitation proceeded for 55 minutes. He was then pro...