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Can AI catch up to us?
Published Winter 2020
Johns Hopkins neuroscientist Daeyeol Lee's new book explores the definition of true intelligence / Johns Hopkins Magazine
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Anxiety fallout
Published Winter 2020
Amid the fear, isolation, and uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic, mental health experts warn of a looming public health crisis: anxiety. / Johns Hopkins Magazine
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Psychedelics
Inside a psilocybin playlist
Published Nov 11, 2020
Researchers rely on this carefully selected classical and contemporary music playlist to enhance the psychedelic experience for their patients during psilocybin studies
psychedelic mushrooms
Depression
Psychedelic treatment with psilocybin shown to relieve major depression
Published Nov 11, 2020
The antidepressant effect of the psilocybin—the active compound in so-called magic mushrooms—was about four times greater than is typically seen in traditional antidepressants currently on the market
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Engineering
Cross-disciplinary team will design, develop devices to better treat spinal cord injuries
Published Nov 11, 2020
Funded through the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the project will bring together experts from across Johns Hopkins to create solutions that work on the battlefield and on the frontlines of health care
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Coronavirus
Johns Hopkins launches center for COVID-19 immunity research
Published Oct 28, 2020
Center is part of an emergency $300 million NIH initiative to understand the causes of severe COVID-19 and develop an effective vaccination program
Metastatic cancer cells
Cancer research
New test can target and capture most lethal cells in fatal brain cancer
Published Oct 26, 2020
The method could lead to better therapeutics for treating glioblastoma or help better identify those with aggressive forms of the disease
Faculty news
Four from Johns Hopkins Medicine elected to the National Academy of Medicine
Published Oct 19, 2020
Rexford Ahima, Alex Kolodkin, Redonda G. Miller, and Justin C. McArthur are among 100 new members
Anthony Fauci
Health Policy Forum
Anthony Fauci discusses state of U.S. coronavirus response
Published Oct 16, 2020 Video
Bloomberg School's Ellen MacKenzie spoke with the nation's top infectious diseases expert in the first installment of the university's Health Policy Forum series
Reza Kalhor
Faculty news
Synthetic biologist wins prestigious Packard Fellowship
Published Oct 15, 2020
Reza Kalhor, an assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, edits the genetic code to enable cells to record their own growth—a key to unlocking the origins of developmental abnormalities