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Here's something that might surprise you: when PTSD treatment is delivered weekly, dropout rates soar, but package those same therapies into intensive formats and retention improves dramatically. Elizabeth Penix-Smith, PhD, Licensed Clinical Psychologist at Idaho State University, National Research Council fellow at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, explains the ABCs of PTSD.

Behavioral health care now consumes 40% of all pediatric medical spending—nearly double the 22% recorded in 2011. Kenneth Michelson, MD, MPH, emergency medicine physician at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago and Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, explains that without regulatory reforms and better reimbursement rates, untreated children will continue flooding emergency departments in crisis.

Remarkably, something as simple as going to bed at the same time each night could lower your blood pressure. Saurabh Thosar, PhD, Associate Professor at Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences at Oregon Health & Science University, found that tightened your bedtime variability from 30 minutes to seven minutes could result clinically meaningful improvements.

What if understanding your teen's genetic wiring could prevent dangerous choices? Danielle Dick, PhD, Director of the Rutgers Addiction Research Center based at Rutgers Brain Health Institute, says parents may have more influence than they realize when it comes to shaping their children’s behavior, especially for those at higher genetic risk for conduct problems.

Cannabis today packs 15-30% THC compared to just 3% in the 1980s. Mallar Chakravarty, PhD, Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Director of the Brain Imaging Centre at the Douglas Research Centre at McGill University, outlines the facts that every pregnant woman needs to know.

Headlines often focus on the massive energy requirements that artificial intelligence data centers will require. Anthony R. Harding, PhD, Assistant Professor, environmental economist, at Georgia Tech, explains why AI has significant potential to improve energy efficiency across much of our economy.

Managing money for aging parents is a daunting task, affecting millions of American families. Beth Pinsker, Certified Financial Planner, financial-planning columnist at MarketWatch, author of “My Mother's Money: A Guide to Financial Caregiving,” shares her own surprising experiences and the lessons she learned in handling her mother's finances.

Could a single treatment permanently fix your cholesterol? Luke J. Laffin, MD, physician in the Preventive Cardiology & Rehabilitation in the Sydell and Arnold Miller Family Heart, Vascular & Thoracic Institute and Co-Director, Center for Blood Pressure Disorders at the Cleveland Clinic, discusses his groundbreaking research on a gene-editing drug that might permanently eliminate your need for daily cholesterol pills.

Alice S.A. Johnston, PhD, Senior Lecturer in Environmental Data Science in the Cranfield Environment Centre at Cranfield University in Wharley End, England, shares her recent findings that nighttime illumination forces natural environments to release more carbon-—essentially making forests and other landscapes worse at their critical job of absorbing CO₂.

Aimee Donnellan, Reuters journalist, author of “Off the Scales: The Inside Story of Ozempic and the Race to Cure Obesity” discusses Ozempic's cultural significance, revealing troubling societal attitudes about body image and worth.