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• Determining 'Brain Age' With A Simple Scan

NPR All Things Considered audio and accompanying script about a type of imaging called functional connectivity MRI that provides scientists with a new lens for studying brain development and useful for detecting developmental disorders

• Embryonic and Adult Stem Cells

NPR's Robert Siegel talks to Dr. Zach Hall about stem cell research. Hall is the former head of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke at the NIH, and first president of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, the state-funded stem cell research facility. He explains the difference between embryonic and adult stem cells, and why they are not interchangeable.

• NYT videos:  HEALTH

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• A Life of Determination and Dependence

  Dayniah Manderson, a young Jamaican immigrant, struggles to achieve her goals despite a debilitating spinal disease of scoliosis

• Is Dementia an Occupational Hazard?

  Ralph Wenzel, a retired football player, has dementia that his wife believes was caused by hits he sustained during his N.F.L. career.

• Million Dollar Babies

  The Masteras and Stansels did fertility treatments to conceive one child, but perverse emotional and economic incentives drove them to accept the greater risks and costs of multiples.

• Living With: Type 1 Diabetes

  Learning to manage Type 1 diabetes can be difficult. Dominique Corozzo, 16, discusses the challenges of her diagnosis and how she copes with the disease.

• Mild Traumatic Brain Injury – Signature Injuries from Iraq/Afghanistan Wars

Stories about soldiers who have suffered traumatic brain injury but are not being recognized by the army for the Purple Heart.  Debate about TBI’s as meriting Purple Heart.