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Back to SearchWhat characterizes a video game designed to help kids with mental health issues? Elizabeth Tracey reports
Just how does a video game designed to help kids with ADHD, depression and anxiety differ from other video games? Barry Bryant, a psychiatrist at Joh…
1 year, 2 months ago
Having kids using mental health care gaming works best at a computer, Elizabeth Tracey reports
if you’re using a gaming program to help a child with ADHD, depression or anxiety, these technologies work best if they are done on a computer. That’…
1 year, 2 months ago
What does a survey of video games to help kid’s mental health show? Elizabeth Tracey reports
Can video games help children and adolescents with mental health issues like anxiety, ADHD or depression? A Johns Hopkins study led by psychiatrist B…
1 year, 2 months ago
Can video games help fill in the gap between kids who need mental health care and the dearth of providers? Elizabeth Tracey reports
Mental health issues are skyrocketing among US youth, data shows. Barry Bryant, a psychiatrist at Johns Hopkins, wondered whether technology might be…
1 year, 2 months ago
Skin isn’t the only place to sample to make a diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease, Elizabeth Tracey reports
Skin biopsies can diagnose both Parkinson’s disease and other neurological conditions called prion diseases, recent studies show. Ted Dawson, Johns H…
1 year, 2 months ago
Personalized treatment may soon come for Parkinson’s disease, Elizabeth Tracey reports
More than 200,000 people in the US alone are diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease yearly, but it can be caused by multiple forms of a misfolded protein…
1 year, 2 months ago
Some people with Parkinson’s disease will test negative with the best test yet, Elizabeth Tracey reports
A type of test known as a seeding assay has been shown to be very good at diagnosing conditions like Parkinson’s disease, caused by a protein that fo…
1 year, 2 months ago
What is it that causes a normal protein to fold differently and cause Parkinson’s disease? Elizabeth Tracey reports
A protein called alpha synuclein is normally found in our bodies, but it’s also found in a misfolded form that’s known to cause Parkinson’s disease. …
1 year, 2 months ago
Parkinson’s disease is actually a few different clinical entities, Elizabeth Tracey reports
Used to be Parkinson’s disease was thought of as a movement disorder, but now it’s known that as the condition progresses two different types of deme…
1 year, 2 months ago
A new way of diagnosing prion disease may also help in other diseases, Elizabeth Tracey reports
Prions are misfolded proteins that can infect us and cause our normal proteins to fold incorrectly also, and they can be found in the skin, a new stu…
1 year, 2 months ago