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25-Nov-2024

Project to document medical ableism experienced by people with disabilities

University of Kansas
Grant and Award Announcement

A new project at the Institute for Health and Disability Policy Studies (IHDPS) at the KU Life Span Institute aims to examine how these prejudices, known as medical ableism, affect people with disabilities. The project, conducted in partnership with researchers at Washington State University, is supported through a $1.2 million, three-year grant from the National Institutes of Health. It is the first large-scale study to investigate the prevalence of medical ableism and its effects on health outcomes.

Funder: NIH/National Institutes of Health

25-Nov-2024

New imaging study finds evidence that emotion regulation is not always the most effective strategy to mitigate suicidal ideation

Elsevier
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Depressed individuals who reflexively attempt to dampen their initial emotional responses to reminders of their negative memories have a low tolerance for distressing emotional stimuli in general and may respond to stress in their daily lives with greater upticks in suicidal thoughts. A new study in Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, published by Elsevier, examined the relationship of the engagement of emotion regulation to real-world responses to stress in order to better understand stress-related increases in suicide risk in depression.

Journal: Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging
Funder: NIH/National Institute of Mental Health, American Foundation for Suicide Prevention

25-Nov-2024

Addressing barriers to advance care planning by adults with advanced cancers

Regenstrief Institute
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In one of the first studies to test the utility of mindfulness to support advance care planning by adult cancer patients and their family caregivers, researchers from Regenstrief Institute and Indiana University have found that mindfulness showed promise in improving quality of life and advance care planning outcomes in patients and their family caregivers coping with advanced cancer.

Journal: BMC Palliative Care
Funder: Indiana University Health, Walther Cancer Foundation, NIH/National Cancer Institute

25-Nov-2024

Brigham researchers use fitness tracker data and machine learning to detect bipolar disorder mood swings

Brigham and Women's Hospital
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Investigators from Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a founding member of the Mass General Brigham healthcare system, evaluated whether data collected from a fitness tracker could be used to accurately detect mood episodes in people with bipolar disorder.

Journal: Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica
Funder: Brain & Behavior Research Foundation, Harvard Brain Science Initiative Bipolar Disorder Seed Grant Program, Alkermes, Inc, Baszucki Brain Research Fund, Harvard Brain Science Initiative Bipolar Disorder Seed Grant Program, NIH/National Institute of Mental Health, Harvard's Middle East Initiative Kuwait Science Program

25-Nov-2024

Bats’ amazing plan B for when they can’t hear

Johns Hopkins University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

When bats can’t hear, new research finds that these hearing-dependent animals employ a remarkable compensation strategy.

Journal: Current Biology
Funder: Center for Hearing and Balance, Kavli Neuroscience Discovery Institute, NIH Brain Initiative, NIH/National Institutes of Health, Human Frontiers Science Program, U.S. National Science Foundation, U.S. National Science Foundation, Office of Naval Research, Office of Naval Research