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February 18 - 24, 2002 Study associates differences in mood with activity in a specific area of the brain
by David F. Salisbury Are you moody? If so, then there is a small area near the front of your brain -- an inch or two behind your right eye (if you are right handed) -- that is probably working overtime. That is the conclusion of a new study, published Feb. 12 in the online Early Edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, which found a significant association between activity in a specific area of the brain and individual differences in mood. "There are lots of beliefs about the relationship of individual differences in emotional behavior and brain function, but this is one of the first times we've seen direct evidence of an association with a specific brain region," said David H. Zald, assistant professor of psychology, who co-authored the paper with Dorothy L. Mattson from the Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Medical Center and José V. Pardo from the University of Minnesota. FULL STORYProgram for low-income families receives honorsby Renae Virata
The Maternal Infant Health Outreach Worker (MIHOW) project, which assists low-income families in the Appalachia, Mississippi Delta and Mid-South communities, was recently honored by both the Bernard van Leer Foundation and Annie E. Casey Foundation. MIHOW is one of several grassroots community service projects housed at Vanderbilt's Center for Health Services, which strives to help people manage their physical, social, political and environmental health. MIHOW is the first American program to receive the prestigious Oscar van Leer Award, which is presented to one community organization worldwide by the Bernard van Leer Foundation every two years. Barbara Clinton, director of the Center for Health Services, recently traveled to the Netherlands to receive the award from officials with the Dutch Parliament. A private international organization begun by Dutch industrialist Bernard van Leer in 1949, the foundation provides financial assistance to programs that significantly help children reach their full potential in circumstances of social and economic disadvantage.
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