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Posted on June 6, 2018 · One in five kids experiences a mental health condition, yet 80 percent of them don't get the services they need

Tags breakthroughs mental health suicide prevention

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New Autism Therapy Shown To Restore Social Behavior Through Brain Stimulation

JUSTIN MARTIN, KERA

Posted on January 31, 2018 · Researchers stimulated a specific part of the cerebellum in mice to correct social impairments

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Listen To Unheard Audio From NASA’s Apollo Missions, Dusted Off By UT Dallas Researchers

JUSTIN MARTIN, KERA

Posted on December 20, 2017 · This project is focused on trying to understand how people work collaboratively together to achieve these really challenging engineering and scientific obstacles

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