It flew bye before I could spell supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.
I shortened the info up, so you can read it before June flies bye quicker than weeds grow in my garden.
- Adele Revoy, DFC Grant Manager
Did you hear this? Researchers report...
Neuroscience and Society: The Opioid Epidemic“We’ve moved from an epidemic to a crisis” in opioid abuse in the United States, said Daniel Ciccarone, M.D., MPH, during a recent Neuroseries panel discussion at AAAS in Washington, DC. He and fellow panelists Karen Drexler, M.D., and NIDA director Nora Volkow, M.D., discussed how we got here and how we might fix it while also continuing to help people in severe pain. From their blog.
When is the Brain mature? "We’re learning that maturation is about the refinement of circuits and larger networks that produce increasingly coordinated behavior and brain activity. And those refinements and improvements in neural coordination are heavily dependent on not only neurobiology, but also practice and experience. And this is all without even considering the influences of individual differences, which undoubtedly have a significant impact in the nature and timing of maturation”says Abigail Baird, a developmental neuroscientist at Vassar College.Read more.
What's going on?
TURN THE TIDE RX To address the opioid crisis, the Surgeon General traveled across the country visiting treatment centers, meeting health care providers and advocates, and listening to patients’ stories of hope and recovery. In a historic first, Dr. Murthy sent a letter to the nation’s 2.3 million health care professionals about opioid prescribing. Join the movement at TurnTheTideRx.org.
