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A major paper debunking the “serotonin hypothesis” has a lot of people agitated. But leaving more room for nuance in our discussions about mental health is the right idea.

Research shows that survivors of abuse can sustain head trauma more often than football players. But they are almost never diagnosed.

INTRODUCTION: Investigating Malingering and Public Policy Through an Interdisciplinary Working Group - Volume 49 Issue 3

Doubt & Social Policy: The Long History of Malingering in Modern Welfare States - Volume 49 Issue 3

Wednesday, February 17, 2021 - 9:37 am A Clarkson University professor is the only U.S. member appointed to an advisory board looking at the sociology of acquired brain injury. Stephen Casper, a professor of history and the associate director of the honors program will serve on the UK based Wellcome Trust-funded grant on the sociology of acquired brain injury and neurodegenerative disease. This project is among the first to empirically explore the societal and scientific im...

Stephen M. Casper ’21 smiles for a Zoom screenshot while Trevor, his Madagascar hissing cockroach, crawls across his left cheek. Despite the species name, Trevor stays quiet — he’s pretty docile in the wintertime, explains Casper, who has kept pet cockroaches in his dorm room since he was a freshman. Over the summer in 2018, Casper was working on a bioinformatics project under the Church Lab and living in Winthrop House when two of his cockroaches mated. Overwhelmed with 30 newbo...