08/08/2018

Do violent video games and movies actually play a role in becoming a psychopath; or is it simply another case of correlation not implying causation? Dr. Eric C. Leuthardt and Dr. Albert H. Kim, Washington University neurosurgeons at Barnes-Jewish Hospital, explain the neuroscience behind psychopathic behavior.

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Do you want to know if you’ll develop Alzheimer’s in the next 10 years? This is the question i’m faced with daily. My name is Marty Reiswig, and my family has been studied for decades because we carry an extremely rare genetic mutation that causes early onset Alzheimer’s disease.

He was young — still in his 40s — and facing a devastating diagnosis: congestive heart failure that would end his life too soon. Readily admitting that his own lifestyle decisions had brought him to this place, Mr. D (his name has been changed to protect his privacy) suffered from what could only be described as transcendental angst.

Ten years ago, Sarah Colby established the Arts + Healthcare program at Barnes-Jewish Hospital. With a master of fine arts degree from the Maryland Institute College of Art, her background encompassed 25 years of teaching and administrative positions at art schools, community art centers and children’s arts programs in Baltimore, New York City, Cincinnati and St. Louis. Though her experiences had prepared her for most any position dealing with the arts and people, she tackled a new set of challenges when she became part of the complex world of a large teaching hospital.

For decades, the list of standard treatments for many blood cancers has remained short and largely unchanged. But now there is a new entry on the list. If chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant fail to stop the cancer, doctors can harness a type of personalized immunotherapy that trains a person’s own immune system to attack cancer cells.