Kenneth Cole wants to fight mental health stigma — and he’s enlisted Kendall Jenner and a host of experts to help

The Washington Post

On Friday, Cole launched the Mental Health Coalition, a collection of three dozen advocacy groups, celebrities and business leaders whose primary goal is to remove the stigma around mental health and help people access the services they need.

Posted on BrainLine May 18, 2020.

Multiclass semantic segmentation and quantification of traumatic brain injury lesions on head CT using deep learning: an algorithm development and multicentre validation study

Female doctor looking at CT scan results.

CT is the most common imaging modality in traumatic brain injury (TBI). However, its conventional use requires expert clinical interpretation and does not provide detailed quantitative outputs, which may have prognostic importance. We aimed to use deep learning to reliably and efficiently quantify and detect different lesion types.

Cover Reveal: 'Before the Ever After' by Jacqueline Woodson

Publisher's Weekly

Looking ahead to fall, Jacqueline Woodson's new middle grade novel, Before the Ever After (Penguin/Paulsen, Sept.), tackles the emotional territory in a story focused on family, football, and the effects of neurogenerative disease CTE (chronic traumatic encephalopathy). 

Posted on BrainLine May 15, 2020.

In Settlement, Facebook To Pay $52 Million To Content Moderators With PTSD

NPR

Facebook will pay $52 million to thousands of current and former contract workers who viewed and removed graphic and disturbing posts on the social media platform for a living, and consequently suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder, according to a settlement agreement announced on Tuesday between the tech giant and lawyers for the moderators.

Posted on BrainLine May 14, 2020.

Distinct cellular mediators drive the Janus faces of toll-like receptor 4 regulation of network excitability which impacts working memory performance after brain injury

A finger with a string tied around it.

A study examining the effect of the immune receptor known as Toll-like Receptor 4, or TLR4, on how memory functions in both the normal and injured brain has found vastly different cellular pathways contribute to the receptor's effects on excitability in the uninjured and injured brain.

Troops to receive Purple Hearts for injuries during Iranian missile barrage on al-Asad airbase in Iraq

Military Times

There will be Purple Hearts awarded to troops injured during the Jan. 8 Iranian missile barrage on the al-Asad airbase in Iraq, a defense official told Military Times.

Posted on BrainLine April 29, 2020.

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