Education

Prevention is better than a thousand cures.   One of the biggest societal ills and in turn a major (possibly the highest) contributor to Cancer Culture is the consumption of alcohol. The [...]

Did you know that our skin is the biggest organ in our body? It is. Yet, Cancer Culture encourages us to exponentially increase our chances of getting skin cancer. The biggest, and really, the [...]

Prevention is the best cure. You may have heard this statement or similar at one point in your life. Indeed, prevention is a very effective line of defense against many problems and diseases we [...]

How are control theory and human behavior related? In control theory, the goal is to provide feedback loop mechanism that will efficiently control a process by removing oscillations and reaching [...]

Have you ever asked yourself: what kind of person am I? When interacting with people, do they look forward to seeing you again? When people see you, do they feel comfort and ease? When you join a [...]

How much time do we spend reflecting on our actions and thoughts? A few hours a day? A few hours a week? A few hours a month? A few hours a year? Never? If we are not making time to reflect then [...]

Several years ago, I had the wonderful opportunity to work on a global health project. As with all international travel, the lessons and experiences were priceless. Towards the end of the trip I [...]

Professor Nasser Kashou discusses his brain research with functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) for rehabilitation and therapy in adults and neonates. In this quick interview I [...]

As we approach the New Year we see a range of emotions and actions from people across the globe. Some are happy, some are sad, some will party, some will stay in. Unfortunately, both the happy [...]

Can we determine feeding ability of newborns by imaging their brain? In this publication our purpose was to investigate the use of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) as a tool for assessing how a [...]