According to a new review of neuroscientific research, coercive interrogation techniques used during the Bush administration to extract information from terrorist suspects are likely to have been unsuccessful and may have had many unintended negative effects on the suspects memory and brain functions. A new article, published by Cell Press on September 21st in the [...]

Large number of individuals, such as recovery and rescue workers, nearby residents and office workers, who experienced intense or prolonged exposure to the World Trade Center attack have reported new diagnoses of asthma or posttraumatic stress 56 years after the attack, according to a study in the August 5 issue of JAMA, a theme issue [...]