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The frontal lobe—the part of the brain that forms judgement, impulse control, empathy, and decision making—isn’t developed until the mid- to late-20’s. This helps explain why teens are moody, explosive, and more susceptible to addiction to everything from drugs, alcohol, and nicotine, to cell phones.
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This season will serve as Barger's second stint as captain for the Quakers, while Bartel, Blades and Swenson will all assume the duties for the first time.
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Tommy Dennis, Nick Miller, and Sam Philippi are experienced All-Ivy players named as captains by the team for the 2018 season.
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Wharton's Kevin Volpp and Scott Halpern from the Perelman School of Medicine discuss the use of incentives in getting employees to stop smoking, to curb the soaring costs of providing health insurance for employees.
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Many physicians pursue the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program that eliminates federal student loans after 10 years of service in the public sector. But the fate of the program hangs in the balance, as government officials signal a desire to end it, leaving physicians in a lingering uncertainty.
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The second-year public school teacher, who recently completed his first course in Penn GSE’s Education Entrepreneurship master’s program, left a lucrative Wall Street career to teach at Philadelphia’s Northeast High School.
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A study published in Nature Communications finds that adding an inhibitor to cancer therapies could cut off a tumor’s access to blood vessels, helping therapies overcome resistance in gioblastomas.
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Astudy from the Annenberg School for Communication, published in Human Communication Research, shows that when vaping portrayals within commercials are reminiscent of traditional cigarette smoking, viewers are likely to associate vaping with smoking.
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a new OMNIA Podcast, Dawn Teele, Janice and Julian Bers assistant professor of political science, discusses the unprecedented number of women running for office in this year's midterm elections.
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2018 graduate Nia Kaudo explores the 20th-century policies that have led to mass incarceration in the U.S. and Brazil.
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