Returned from Cuba

http://njchamber.com/index.php/nj-chamber-business-news/press-releases/939-bonnie-bassler-pioneer-biologist-to-get-women-s-innovation-award  This is an announcement from the NJ Chamber of Commerce about an award given to Bonnie Bassler for her work in quorem sensing in bacteria, a method of bacterial communication. Bassler is an HHMI investigator and the department head of the Molecular Biology Department at Princeton. Her work will generate a new line of antibiotics.




http://health.heraldtribune.com/2016/07/19/moving-beyond-the-idea-of-a-mindbody-divide/ From the NYT and Herald Tribune an article about a paper in the British Medical Journal and a seminar at the NY Academy of Sciences about the effectiveness of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) in getting people to change the way they think.




https://www.nih.gov/news-events/researchers-identify-brain-circuits-help-people-cope-stress
This is a report of an NIH-funded study to identify the brain circuits utilized in coping with stress. The research was done at Yale and is published in PNAS. Repeated and chronic stress damages the brain's pre-frontal cortex. The study has determined that individuals who do not show neuroflexibility are at risk for destructive behaviors or emotional dysfunction problems.