How Does Marijuana Affect the Brain?
TRANSCRIPT Initially just kind of defining marijuana, looking at that it consists of THC, which is the psychoactive component, and then the CBD component, which is the physiological component—which...
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Book by Associate Professor Mar Hicks Receives Award from the American Historical Association
Mar Hicks, an associate professor of history in the Department of Humanities in Illinois Institute of Technology's Lewis College of Human Sciences, has won the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize from the...
New Intervention Program Teaches Career Skills to High School Students with Autism
A new program aimed at helping high school students with autism spectrum disorder to develop work-related social skills will launch this fall in a sample of high schools in Illinois and Michigan. The...
Halo Cures Names Psychology Researcher Lindsay Sheehan Among Chicago’s ‘Heroes of Medicine’
Lindsay Sheehan, a senior research associate in the Department of Psychology at the Illinois Institute of Technology, has been named among the 40 Under 40 Scientists in Chicago by Halo Cures, an...
Helping Those with Hoarding Disorder Through Virtual Reality
TRANSCRIPT Clinical Psychology Ph.D. candidate Elizabeth Hamilton: So one of the disorders that we focus on in the REBL lab is hoarding disorder, and we are interested in this idea of treatment...
Professor Advances Treatment of Hoarding Disorder Through Virtual Reality, New Book
Through the publication of a new book and the development of new treatment programs—one of which incorporates virtual reality software—Associate Professor of Psychology Gregory S. Chasson is advancing...
How We Can Better Deal with Stress
TRANSCRIPT To manage stress there are a variety of different ways that you can go about it, and each person probably should treat it a bit like a buffet. You kind of want to pick and choose what works...
Psychology Professor Roya Ayman Named a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology
Professor of Psychology Roya Ayman has been named a fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology for 2019. She will be recognized as one of 20 recipients of the fellowship on...
Scientists Partner with Argonne Lab to Understand “Invisible” Brain Injuries
TRANSCRIPT Joseph Orgel, professor of biology and biomedical engineering, associate director of BioCAT: We are able to correlate the experience that a person has with what kind of outcome they may...
Scientists Take First Step in Understanding “Invisible” Brain Injuries
Traumatic brain injury, or TBI, is often called an “invisible injury”—and is notoriously hard for doctors to diagnose with an accurate prognosis. While a patient’s brain might appear healthy, symptoms...