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Activism & Social Justice

Choosing Body Positivity in the Face of Fatphobia

Tufts University senior Athena Nair promotes self-acceptance and raises awareness of fatphobia on campus and in a Disney Plus TV show.

James Bartz, clinical associate professor of medicine and physician at Newton-Wellesley Hospital, and Gabriella Ojeda-Badillo, M23.

Faculty Coaches Support Medical Students Beyond the Classroom

Practicing physicians affiliated with Tufts’ clinical partners help School of Medicine students develop personally and professionally through a coaching program...

A man sits on a couch across from a therapist.

Prioritizing Mental Health Care and Access Post-Pandemic

Tufts University School of Medicine Chair of Psychiatry Paul Summergrad discusses the pandemic’s impact on mental health and what needs to be done to improve...

Dead man and woman performing art by Rachelle Mozman Solano

Fine Arts

Healing Trauma Through Art

Photographer–psychoanalyst Rachelle Mozman Solano focuses on her Panamanian roots to overcome old wounds of colonization passed from one generation to the next

An illustration of a woman and different symbols for moods.

Neuroscience

What Causes the Brain’s Emotional Hub to Switch to Negative States?

Researchers from the School of Medicine and Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences study the basolateral amygdala to understand how it helps the brain switch...

Florence Almeda and Marwah Kiani

Health

When Research Is Personal, ‘It’s My Own, It’s Home’

Students feel drawn to study projects that connect to their cultural identities

Two people look at TV screen showing images of shows and documentaries about frauds

Arts & Humanities

How to Spot a Fraud—in Others and in Ourselves

The liars we’ve been binge-watching are more like us than we might want to think, say two Tufts psychologists

Neuroscientist Jamie Maguire is shown in her lab at Tufts University School of Medicine.

Health

Massachusetts Life Sciences Center Invests in Women’s Health Research at Tufts

The award will support studies on sex differences in depression

A teenage girl sits alone on the floor. Child psychiatrist John Sargent discusses the current crisis in youth mental health.

The Mental Health Emergency in Young People: What Parents Need to Know

A child psychiatrist explains what’s behind the crisis and how we can all help kids who are struggling

illustration collage of Alok Kanojia

Addiction

An Online Counselor for Video Game Addicts

Psychiatrist Alok Kanojia is building an innovative approach to combatting mental health crises among gamers

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