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Let Your Hair Down: What’s really going on when we procrastinate?

Hannah Bohn March 16, 2021
Treating procrastination as a symptom of idleness is problematic and harmful. We have to stop stigmatizing procrastination and dig deeper into the underlying, neurological roots of what’s actually causing us to respond — or not — to our responsibilities.
Boston University's Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy Center releases a major study on July 25 detailing the possible link between playing football and suffering from CTE, a neurodegenerative brain disease. PHOTO BY FRANCHESCA VIAUD/DFP FILE PHOTO

BU’s CTE Center announces American football players may be at risk of long-term brain disease

Alana Levene July 29, 2017

Researchers at Boston University’s Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy Center released a study Tuesday that found that 177 of 202 former football players’ brains linked repetitive head impact with...

Sleeping your troubles away

Daily Free Press Admin September 30, 2013

Researchers at Northwestern University discovered that fear conditioning used during sleep may effectively cure phobias We all know it: Watching scary movies late at night is the worst. After returning...

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