Posts by Gloria Rosado
Research Shows that Memory Function in Adolescents Improves After 30 Days of Cannabis Abstinence
Teens and young adults who abstained from cannabis use for a month improved performance on memory and cognitive function tests.
Read MoreA FRESH Look at HIV Prevention and Women’s Empowerment
Researchers at the Ragon Institute of Massachusetts General Hospital, MIT and Harvard recently published an editorial in Science Immunology detailing their efforts to combine basic science and social good to reduce the high rate of HIV infection in young South African women while simultaneously empowering them. Here is a brief summary.
Read MoreCould Folic Acid Help Reduce the Rates of Autism and Schizophrenia?
Folate levels have, once again, become an area of interest for a Massachusetts General Hospital -based research team after finding that increased in utero folic acid exposure is associated with changes in brain development later in life that could reduce the risk of psychosis and schizophrenia.
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