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24-Oct-2025

Child welfare system involvement may improve diagnosis of developmental delays

Penn State
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Infants and toddlers in Pennsylvania who are involved with child welfare services are more likely to have developmental delays identified early, according to a new study from researchers in the Penn State Child Health Research Center.  

Journal

JAMA Health Forum

Funder

NIH/Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

24-Oct-2025

Boston Children’s Hospital receives $8.1M to expand research for hereditary spastic paraplegia

Boston Children's Hospital
Grant and Award Announcement

Boston Children’s Hospital has received $8.1M in NIH funding to support and expand the Spastic Paraplegia Centers of Excellence Research Network (SP-CERN). Darius Ebrahimi-Fakhari, M.D., Ph.D., Director of the Movement Disorders Program at Boston Children’s, and his team will lead this multi-center effort.

Funder

NIH/National Institutes of Health

24-Oct-2025

New research uncovers how the brain’s activity, energy use, and blood flow change as people fall asleep

Brigham and Women's Hospital
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study by investigators from Mass General Brigham used next-generation imaging technology to discover that when the brain is falling asleep, it shows a coordinated shift in activity.

Journal

Nature Communications

Funder

NIH/National Institutes of Health, Harvard Mind Brain Behavior Faculty Research Award, Brain & Behavior Research Foundation Young Investigator Grant, BrightFocus Foundation Research Grant, MGH/HST Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, NIH Shared Instrumentation Grants, Massachusetts Life Sciences Center

23-Oct-2025

Teenagers and young adults who use cannabis have a higher risk of progressing to regular tobacco use

BMJ Group
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Teens and young adults who use cannabis are more likely to become regular tobacco users – even if they haven’t previously tried tobacco – compared to similar people who do not use cannabis, suggests a US study published online in the journal Tobacco Control.

Journal

Tobacco Control

Funder

Tobacco- Related Disease Research Program (TRDRP), NIH/National Cancer Institute

23-Oct-2025

Psilocybin plus mindfulness shows promise for healthcare worker depression

University of Utah Health
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Nearly half (46%) of healthcare workers who received psilocybin and meditation techniques were free of depression at 2 weeks, compared to just 8% who only did meditation. 

Journal

PLOS Medicine

Funder

Heffter Research Institute, NIH/National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Institutes of Health