Alzheimer Research

The Matt Townsend Show • Season 7, Episode 12, Segment 3

Jan 13, 2018 • 26m

Perry Ridge, Ph.D., a professor of Biology at Brigham Young University. Almost 6 million people in the U.S live with Alzheimer’s disease and currently, there is no cure. A research group at BYU just identified a gene variation that could protect people against the disease. Dr. Ridge shares his research.

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Ashley Whillans, Assistant Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. Social Media is changing the way we look at the world and the way we look at ourselves. Is it really healthy for us to be using social media to measure our success? Ashley Whillans explains what social media is doing to us

Making Sense of EmotionJan 13, 201849mFrank John Ninivaggi MD is an associate attending physician at Yale-New Haven Hospital, an assistant clinical professor of child psychiatry at the Yale University School of Medicine’s Child Study Center and the psychiatric director of the Devereux-Glenholme School in Washington, Connecticut. He is in private practice in New Haven and teaches at Yale. He is a regular contributor to Psychology Today online and his book, Making Sense of Emotion: Innovating Emotional Intelligence has just been published. Frank Ninivaggi helps us understand why emotional intelligence is a skill that must be developed.

Frank John Ninivaggi MD is an associate attending physician at Yale-New Haven Hospital, an assistant clinical professor of child psychiatry at the Yale University School of Medicine’s Child Study Center and the psychiatric director of the Devereux-Glenholme School in Washington, Connecticut. He is in private practice in New Haven and teaches at Yale. He is a regular contributor to Psychology Today online and his book, Making Sense of Emotion: Innovating Emotional Intelligence has just been published. Frank Ninivaggi helps us understand why emotional intelligence is a skill that must be developed.

Alzheimer Research

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