The physical benefits of gardening on the brain may be the result of its majorly positive effects on mental health. Gardening reduces levels of the stress-driving hormone cortisol. www.the-independent.com/life-style/h...

Researchers at Emory University and Georgia Tech are developing "mind-reading" technology called brain-computer interface. It is designed to restore communication for people living who cannot communicate verbally due to conditions like paralysis. www.fox5atlanta.com/news/emory-g...

The season finale of Your Fantastic Mind shows how researchers and clinicians are helping reshape mental health care. From PTSD to community-based suicide prevention and an anxiety therapeutic summer camp, see how these stories point to new hope for healing. youtu.be/DHBY8XzcWHE?...

Anxiety can be crippling. Tonight on Your Fantastic Mind, take a peek into a therapeutic summer camp for children with anxiety and see how it is helping them make rapid progress. We will see you at 7:00pm on Georgia Public Broadcasting!

Suicide is the second-leading cause of death among teens. On the season finale of Your Fantastic Mind, learn how community-based suicide prevention efforts are teaching life-saving conversations. youtu.be/FBPtHSNcnk8?...

The season finale of Your Fantastic Mind highlights how researchers and clinicians are helping reshape mental health care. Tune into Georgia Public Broadcasting on 5/18 at 9:30pm or 5/20 at 7pm.

Reading is an important part of every child’s education. Tonight, Your Fantastic Mind highlights structured literacy and the science behind how the brain learns to read. See you at 7:00pm on Georgia Public Broadcasting!

On this week's episode of Your Fantastic Mind, see how the Grady Health program “Talk with Me Baby” promotes early language exposure to strengthen an infant’s developing brain. What it here! ⬇️ youtu.be/rJ-sYPVtc4s?...

This week Your Fantastic Mind focuses on building the brain. See how early strategies from pregnancy through school years can support learning, behavior and long-term development. Tune into Georgia Public Broadcasting tonight at 9:30pm or 5/13 at 7pm!

This week's episode of Your Fantastic Mind on Georgia Public Broadcasting gave viewers an inside look at how advanced treatment and compassionate community outreach are transforming lives. The episode is available now for streaming! youtu.be/nJ7rlYBbqow?...

Tonight’s episode of Your Fantastic Mind highlights the Emory Farmworker Project. Follow a team of Emory faculty and students as they travel to South Georgia to provide medical care directly to migrant farmworkers. See you at 7:00pm on Georgia Public Broadcasting!

Your Fantastic Mind introduces you to a teenager living with cerebral cavernous malformation, a rare brain condition. See how Emory neurosurgeons are advancing care and treatment of the condition. Watch it now! ⬇ youtu.be/Z8BfIs8PzTM?...

Tonight, Your Fantastic Mind shares two stories on how advanced treatment and compassionate community outreach can transform lives. Meet a teenager living with a rare brain condition and travel to South Georgia for the Emory Farmworker Project. See you at 9:30pm on Georgia Public Broadcasting!

This week, Your Fantastic Mind highlights Alabama football legend Kerry Goode and his fight against ALS. See how the Goode Foundation supports ALS research and those affected by the disease. Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AayQ...

In case you missed last night's episode of Your Fantastic Mind it is streaming now on YouTube! Follow patients and families living with ALS, and see how therapies, training and research are supporting patients and care partners facing the emotional toll of the disease. youtu.be/JglhVSE0U7I?...

Tonight's episode of Your Fantastic Mind follows patients and families living with ALS and highlights coordinated care from the Emory ALS Center as well as training, therapies and research designed to support both patients and care partners facing the emotional toll of ALS. See you at 9:30pm on GPB!

Episode two of Your Fantastic Mind explores whether a phone-free policy in Marietta City Schools can improve attention, learning, mental health and social connection, while asking what school might look like without the constant pull of smartphones. See you at 7:00pm on Georgia Public Broadcasting.

Stream last night's latest episode of Your Fantastic Mind that highlights researchers from Emory Rollins School of Public Health who are studying what happens when students from Marietta City Schools lock away their phones for an entire day. youtu.be/UftjBnhdJoo?...

Emory Rollins School of Public Health hosted an advanced screening of a new episode of Your Fantastic Mind exploring the impact of phones on students and the growing conversation around phone-free learning environments across Georgia.

This week’s episode of Your Fantastic Mind, focused on Emory researchers traveling to India to build on a long-running study, exploring how diabetes, high blood pressure and high cholesterol may influence the risk of Alzheimer’s disease and cognitive decline. Stream it now! youtu.be/uu7trkwaNsg?...

Emory University and Georgia Public Broadcasting (GPB) are teaming up once again for a seventh season of the Emmy Award-winning television series “Your Fantastic Mind,” premiering Monday, April 13, at 9:30 p.m. ET. news.emory.edu/stories/2026...

In a study published last month, Emory researchers Negar Fani and Michael Treadway showed that TI stimulation of the ventral striatum, a structure central to reward processing, could enhance the brain’s reward response while people meditated. www.science.org/content/arti...

Did you know the mind arranges emotions on an internal map, grouping related feelings while keeping distinct ones farther apart. Researchers at Emory University found hippocampal and prefrontal signals recorded where emotions belonged within this internal layout. www.earth.com/news/how-the...

Congratulations to founder and director of the Nia Project Dr. Nadine Kaslow on being named an Innovator of the Year in Women's Health by the Atlanta Business Chronicle! www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news...

In a study published in eNeuro, Emory researcher Dr. Lena Ting and colleagues explored how brain and muscle activity during balance recovery change due to aging and Parkinson's. medicalxpress.com/news/2026-03...

A new study reveals seals and sea lions may hold important clues about the evolution of human speech! Researchers discovered these marine mammals have special brain connections that give them unusually strong control over their vocal muscles — even allowing some seals to mimic human speech.

The mental health system isn’t ready to “jump in with both feet,” said Emory professor of psychiatry Dr. Andrew Miller, who studies inflammation-related depression. But the APA’s embrace of biomarkers signals “the beginning of a revolution,” he said. www.usatoday.com/story/life/h...

Treatment for hypertension plays a vital role in brain health. Elevated pressure in your bloodstream wears down tiny blood vessels in your brain, increasing your risk of cognitive decline, dementia and Alzheimer’s. www.everydayhealth.com/neurological...

Emory professor Dr. Madeleine Hackney is teaching adapted tango dance classes to veterans living with Parkinson's disease, helping them reclaim their lives. www.cbsnews.com/atlanta/news...

A new report from the American Academy of Sleep Medicine shows overnight sleep studies may help detect early markers of conditions like Parkinson’s and dementia. Sleep isn’t just rest—it can be an early window into brain health. 🌛✨ aasm.org/polysomnogra...

Congratulations to Emory professor of rehabilitation medicine Dr. Sarah Blanton for being named an Allied Health Professional of the Year by the Atlanta Business Chronicle for transformative patient care. www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news...

“Early identification and rapid connection to treatment can change the trajectory of a young person’s life,” says Dr. Justine Welsh, Emory psychiatrist and medical director of the Addiction Alliance of Georgia. www.wabe.org/addiction-ce...

Emory researchers examined individuals' levels of air pollution exposure and whether they developed Alzheimer's disease, while accounting for the effects of other chronic conditions. www.the-express.com/news/health/...

Emory is currently conducting a one-time online research study to better understand caregiver eating behavior, family meals and food-related routines in households with children. Learn more about the study and sign up here ➡️ redcap.emory.edu/surveys/?s=4...

The Addiction Alliance of Georgia (AAG), a collaboration between Emory Healthcare and the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation, has opened a new 7,000-square-foot Adolescent Outpatient Program at the Emory Addiction Center in Atlanta. news.emory.edu/stories/2026...

GLP-1 medications are rapidly reshaping how Americans think about weight loss. Current research explores brain pathways that could protect muscle mass during treatment and new therapeutic strategies that target stress- and hunger-related neurons. saportareport.com/georgia-stat...

Can Alzheimer’s disease be slowed by flickering lights and sound? That is the question that drives Annabelle Singer, an associate professor and biomedical engineer at Emory and Georgia Tech. www.cnn.com/health/flick...

The Creative Conscience Project is part of Emory College of Arts and Sciences’ Year of Compassion, featuring events dedicated to promoting empathy, healing and human connection. news.emory.edu/stories/2026...

Our Accelerated Brain Health Program provides therapy, life skills, and resources to help participants transform their lives from the disruptive symptoms of traumatic experiences. Treatment is provided at no cost to post-9/11 veterans and service members: www.emoryhealthcare.org/centers-prog...

A new study from Emory University suggests a drug used to treat inflammation in arthritis might help people with depression feel more motivated. knowridge.com/2026/01/can-...

A new Emory study has taken a closer look at how inflammation may affect motivation in people with depression. The researchers tested whether an anti-inflammatory drug could improve motivation by calming inflammation and changing how certain brain circuits work. knowridge.com/2026/02/redu...

A new Emory study suggests grandmothers relate to their grandchildren differently than they do to their own offspring. Professor of psychiatry Dr. James Rilling measured the brain function of about 50 women with at least one biological grandchild age 3-12.

Congratulations to Emory nurse practitioners Elsa Mekonnen and Tong Wang for being named to the first cohort of the Nurse Practitioner Fellowship in Movement Disorders! news.emory.edu/stories/2026...

Research on conditions like autism, schizophrenia and even brain cancer increasingly relies on clusters of human cells called brain organoids. These pea-size bits of neural tissue model aspects of human brain development as they grow for months and even years in a lab. www.npr.org/sections/sho...

Jaye Watson, co-executive producer and host of 15-time Emmy Award-winning series Your Fantastic Mind, received the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology's Media Award! Jaye was honored for her educational contributions to the public about mental illness and substance abuse research.

Nearly half of Americans are affected by cardiovascular disease, while about one in four lives with a mental health condition. A newly released report from Emory University points to a deeper connection between these two growing health challenges. medicalxpress.com/news/2025-11...

The @ehcveteransprogram.bsky.social recently celebrated its 10-year anniversary gala. The event celebrated the program's commitment to providing world-class, life-changing mental health care to thousands of post-9/11 veterans and service members.

@ehcveteransprogram.bsky.social director Dr. Barbara Rothbaum was recently interviewed on Atlanta's 11 Alive to highlight Emory’s decade-long commitment to providing free mental health care for post-9/11 veterans. www.11alive.com/video/news/1...

Emory associate professor of neurology Dr. Monica Parker spoke with the @washingtonpost.com about simple lifestyle changes we can make to reduce our risk of cognitive decline. www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/try...

A new study published in GeroScience provides evidence of an association between PTSD, depression, heart health and reduced cognition among a nationally representative sample of middle-aged urban adults. sph.emory.edu/news/study-f...