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Ti moun se bèt,” (Children are animals) or so the saying goes. When I was a child, I preferred to think of this proverb as a kind of endearing pejorative, something an exasperated adult might say after a child had made a really bad mess. However, as I grew older, it became apparent that not […]

August 22, 2021

During the past half-century, numerous advances in medicine and public health have been introduced into local health programs throughout the world. The under-5 mortality rate (the risk of death from birth until the fifth birthday) in developing countries fell by 47% (from 167 deaths per 1000 live births to 89 deaths per 1000 live births) […]

Midbrain dopamine (DA) neurons are not homogeneous but differ in their molecular properties and responses to external stimuli. We examined whether the modulation of excitatory synapses onDAneurons by rewarding or aversive stimuli depends on the brain area to which these DA neurons project.Weidentified DA neuron subpopulations in slices after injection of ‘‘Retrobeads’’ into single target […]

The 2010 earthquakes in Haiti initiated crises for one of the world’s poorest nations. This transpired amidst pervasive, pre-disaster hardships, with the resulting situation described as ‘acute on chronic’ trauma exposure. The current paper provides a description of a dynamic model focused on three factors of consideration for similar crises: cultural context, unfolding traumatic events […]

Haiti has long had difficulty in protecting its children from harm. The earthquake that struck the country on January 12 destroyed much of the capital, Port-au-Prince, as it killed many government officials and UN workers