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Cognitive psychologist Sandra Waxman, research specialist Kali Woodruff Carr and their colleagues identified developmental changes in 4- and 6-month-old infants’ neural responses to human speech and lemur calls, providing new insight into how the link to cognition becomes so rapidly attuned to human speech.

A new study from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University found that significant media attention to the appointment of a female CEO in a U.S. publicly traded firm causes its stock to drop by 2 to 3% after the announcement, but the researchers said that this short-term market reaction reverses course over time.

U.S. Supreme Court today in California v. Texas dismissed a third challenge to the Affordable Care Act in a 7-2 ruling
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A new Northwestern Medicine study has found the hippocampus plays a role in short-term memory and helps guide decision-making. The findings could lead to therapies that restore hippocampal function.

Northwestern University’s Puerto Rican Arts Initiative (PRAI) is tackling environmental politics, rights to the city, and community affects and infrastructures in its exciting second phase, which kicked off in spring 2021.
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As the pandemic begins to taper off and the country opens up after a year and a half of restrictions, a surprising downside has emerged: an increase in violence and aggressive behavior. Why are people so angry when the end of the pandemic should be a happy time? Northwestern Medicine psychiatrists and mental health experts explain why this is happening and how to care for yourself through this stressful transition.

When respiratory droplets collide with a surface coated with the new material, they stick to it, get absorbed and dry up, eliminating a potential source of transmission.

In future-looking research, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine scientists have identified a novel target for a drug to treat SARS-CoV-2 that also could impact a new emerging coronavirus.

The new study calls for a better understanding of how structural discrimination that exposes minoritized populations to ‘unhealthy’ environments — from altered diets, pollution, sanitation and lack of access to green space — impacts the human gut microbiome, which in turn affects almost every aspect of human biology and health.

The U7+ Alliance today issued a statement asking G7 leaders to take into account the interests of future generations as the world recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic and seeks to mitigate the effects of climate change.