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Background: Negative attitudes towards mental illness by Health Care Professionals (HCP) have been reported in many countries across the world. Stigmatizing attitudes by HCP can have adverse consequences on people with mental illness from delays in seeking help to decreased quality of care provided. Assessing such attitudes is an essential step in understanding such stigma and, if needed, developing and testing appropriate and culturally adapted interventions to reduce it. Aims: to assess physic...

People have been convicted of crimes they didn’t commit on the basis of eyewitness memory. To reduce the likelihood of injustice, researchers suggest a simple, no-cost reform, “Test a witness’s memory of a suspect only once,”.

According to U.S. Census Bureau estimates, by 2030, 1 in 5 residents will be retirement age. As the senior population over the age of 65 continues to grow through the years, so will age-related cognitive health issues. The Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) book “Cognitive Aging” notes that years of research have shown age debilitates cognitive abilities such as attention, memory and visuospatial function. Changes in the brain have actually been shown to begin happening as early as age 20. 1CD...