‘Mind’s Eye’ Influences Visual Perception

05 Jul 2008
Letting your imagination run away with you may actually influence how you see the world. New research from Vanderbilt University has found that mental imagery–what we see with the “mind’s eye”–directly impacts our visual perception.
The research was published online June 26 by the journal Current Biology.
“We found that imagery leads [...]

Addiction Largely Determined By Our Genes

(I post it here but don’t believe this.)
05 Jul 2008
The mystery of why one person becomes hooked on alcohol, heroin, sex or gambling, and another remains free of addiction, lies deep in the brain and is largely determined by our genes.
Professor Wim van den Brink, from the Academic Medical Centre at the [...]

Mothers Get High On Baby Smiles

7-8-2008
Seeing her baby smile lights up the reward centres in the mother’s brain in a way similar to that observed in experiments on drug addiction, said US and UK researchers who hope the findings give further insight into the development of the mother-baby bond, and how it can sometimes go wrong.
The study is the work [...]

graduate school programs

By Debra Lafler on HEDIR @ July 2, 2008

Regarding the graduate school search…you can also go to http://www.gradschools.com/ to search for graduate school programs.
To start with though, here are some health education or related grad school programs in the NYC area.  I don’t know if they have distance learning programs/classes.
Teachers College-Columbia University
Graduate degrees in Health [...]