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Warning of serious brain disorders in people with mild Covid symptoms
UK neurologists publish details of mildly affected or recovering patients with serious or potentially fatal brain conditions
Michael V. Drake to become 21st president of the University of California
The University of California Board of Regents announced today (July 7) the appointment of Michael V. Drake, M.D., as the 21st president of UC’s world-renowned system of 10 campuses, five medical centers, three nationally affiliated labs, more than...
Letter to Congress on WHO Withdrawal from Public Health, Law and International Relations Leaders | O'Neill Institute
750 scholars and experts in global public health, U.S. constitutional law, and international law and relations wrote to Congress in opposition to U.S. withdrawal from WHO. June 30, 2020 The Honorable James Risch Chair, Committee on Foreign Relations...
National Dialogue on Safely Reopening America's Schools
National Dialogue on Safely Reopening America's Schools July 7, 2020
Base rate neglect and neural computations for subjective weight in decision under uncertainty
Estimating probability of potential outcomes is essential to many decisions we make under uncertainty. Yet humans often exhibit systematic biases in probability estimation. We investigated the neural mechanisms for base rate neglect, an important...
1. Introduction to Human Behavioral Biology
(March 29, 2010) Stanford professor Robert Sapolsky gave the opening lecture of the course entitled Human Behavioral Biology and explains the basic premise o...
ICE tells students on visas they must leave US if schools go online-only
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced Monday that international students in the U.S. whose schools switch to online classes for the fall semester will have to leave the country or risk violating their visa status.
Forgoing earned incentives to signal pure motives
Financial incentives can spark behavior change but often damage recipients’ self-image. We designed and tested an intervention that allows organizations and individuals to resolve this tension. We motivated actors with financial rewards and then...
Mitigating and Learning From the Impact of COVID-19 Infection on Addictive Disorders - PubMed
Mitigating and Learning From the Impact of COVID-19 Infection on Addictive Disorders
SEVP modifies temporary exemptions for nonimmigrant students taking online courses during fall 2020 semester
Due to COVID-19, SEVP instituted a temporary exemption regarding online courses for the spring and summer semesters. This policy permitted nonimmigrant students to take more online courses than
Lung scarring, heart damage, and anxiety: Some Covid-19 survivors face long-term complications
"It is a true roller coaster of symptoms and severities, with each new day offering many unknowns."
The ventral striatum dissociates information expectation, reward anticipation, and reward receipt
Whether the reward system represents the expected utility of information distinctly from reward remains unclear. Optimal experimental design models from statistics quantify the expected value of information that might result from a query before the...
Cognitive Barriers to Reducing Income Inequality - Joshua Conrad Jackson, Keith Payne,
As economic inequality grows, more people stand to benefit from wealth redistribution. Yet in many countries, increasing inequality has not produced growing sup...
OHBM Annual Meeting - Keynote: Mapping Fast Transient Brain Network Dynamics
Mark Woolrich, DPhil, MEng
'We need to live with it': White House readies new message for the nation on coronavirus
The effort to craft a clearer response comes after months of Trump downplaying the health crisis and mixed signals from the administration.