Interview with Nancy Topping Bazin: Old Dominion University: Affirmative Action in the Curriculum

Believing that the concept of affirmative action should extend to the curriculum, Nancy Topping Bazin, director of the Old Dominion University (ODU) Women\u27s Studies Program, has strived for a change in the school\u27s mission statement to reflect this conviction. If we have a concensus that equality is a good thing, says Bazin, then the commitment to the philosophical principle of equality should automatically transfer to the curriculum. We should hire people who are experts in women\u27s, black, and third world studies who can integrate their research into the various departments and help other people change their courses

The Women\u27s Studies Conference in Berlin: Another Chapter in the Controversy

Those who read the Winter and Spring issues of the Women\u27s Studies Newsletter in 1979 may remember accounts of controversies among women which surrounded feminist thought, teaching, and research in all of West Germany, and especially in Berlin. The next chapter in the controversy, though far from the last, occurred last April at the Free University of Berlin, where three hundred people attended a conference on Aims, Content, and Institutionalization of Women\u27s Studies and Research, sponsored by Berlin\u27s Senator for Education, and by the President of the Free University of Berlin. Foreign participants were invited from Sweden, France, Italy, The Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States. German participants included university faculty, administrators, students, and leaders of women\u27s professional groups as well as women from the government, the Common Market, and the German Federation of Trade Unions

Research & Action Report, Spring/Summer 2004

In this issue: The Work of the Jean Baker Miller Training Institute Travels the World Jean Baker Miller Training Institute Gender-Equitable Education: A Focus on Literacy Q&A Empowering Educators Through SEED: An Interview with Peggy McIntoshSEED Human Rights Activists From West Africa Visit WCWhttps://repository.wellesley.edu/researchandactionreport/1004/thumbnail.jp

Research & Action Report, Fall/Winter 2008

In this issue: Q & A with Sally Engle Merry Examining Mixed-Ancestry Identity in Adolescents Update on Work to Empower Children for Life Dual-Trauma Couples: Why Do We Need to Study Them? SEED Project Moves Educational Equity and Diversity Forwardhttps://repository.wellesley.edu/researchandactionreport/1013/thumbnail.jp

Research & Action Report, Spring/Summer 2011

In this issue: Q&A: Investigating the Economic Implications of Women\u27s RealitiesFamilies Labor Market Commentary: Creating Equitable Schools with Teachers at the Forefront Global Connections: WCW Organizes Roundtable for Women Leaders in the Arab and Muslim World Rabat Roundtable: Women Leading Change in the Muslim World Even One Year of Comprehensive Sex Education Has a Protective Effect Schools Leverage Social and Emotional Learning in Turnaround Effortshttps://repository.wellesley.edu/researchandactionreport/1018/thumbnail.jp

Research & Action Report, Spring/Summer 2014

In this issue: Q & A with Erika Kates, Ph.D.: Building a omens Justice Network in Massachusetts Commentary: How Research Accelerates Social Change for Women and Girlsby Layli Maparyan, Ph.D. Spotlight: New Funding and Projects Global Connections: Sari Pekkala Kerr, Ph.D. Global Connections: Peggy McIntosh, Ph.D. Global Connections: Sallie Dunning, M.Ed. Global Connections: Tracy Gladstone, Ph.D.https://repository.wellesley.edu/researchandactionreport/1024/thumbnail.jp

Blunted Medial Prefrontal Cortico-Limbic Reward-Related Effective Connectivity and Depression

Stratifying Resilience and Depression Longitudinally (STRADL) was supported by the Wellcome Trust through a Strategic Award (Grant No. 104036/Z/14/Z). Parts of the work were supported by a China Scholarship Council (Grant No. 201506040037 to SX), National Institutes of Health (Grant No. DA027764 to MRD), Lister Institute Prize Fellowship 2016–2021 (to DJS), Dr Mortimer and Theresa Sackler Foundation (AMM, HCW, and SML), Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology (IJD and AMM), Medical Research Council and Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (Grant No. MR/K026992/1), Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh John, Margaret, Alfred and Stewart Sim fellowship (to HCW), and University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh Scientific Academic TmPCk College Fellowship (to HCW). The Chief Scientist Office of the Scottish Government Health Department (Grant No. CZD/16/6) and Scottish Funding Council (Grant No. HR03006) provided core support for Generation Scotland. Data acquisition was additionally supported by the Scottish Mental Health Research Network and Scottish Government’s Support for Science initiative. LR, HCW, and AMM, received financial support from Pfizer (formerly Wyeth) in relation to imaging studies of people with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. AMM has previously received grant support from Lilly and Janssen. SML has received honoraria for lectures, chairing meetings, and consultancy work from Janssen in connection with brain imaging and therapeutic initiatives for psychosis. JDS has received funding via an honorarium associated with a lecture or Wyeth and funding from Indivior for a study on opioid dependency. No other disclosures were reported. The authors declare no conflict of interest.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Comprehensive review:Computational modelling of Schizophrenia

Computational modelling has been used to address: (1) the variety of symptoms observed in schizophrenia using abstract models of behavior (e.g. Bayesian models - top-down descriptive models of psychopathology); (2) the causes of these symptoms using biologically realistic models involving abnormal neuromodulation and/or receptor imbalance (e.g. connectionist and neural networks - bottom-up realistic models of neural processes). These different levels of analysis have been used to answer different questions (i.e. understanding behavioral vs. neurobiological anomalies) about the nature of the disorder. As such, these computational studies have mostly supported diverging hypotheses of schizophrenia's pathophysiology, resulting in a literature that is not always expanding coherently. Some of these hypotheses are however ripe for revision using novel empirical evidence.Here we present a review that first synthesizes the literature of computational modelling for schizophrenia and psychotic symptoms into categories supporting the dopamine, glutamate, GABA, dysconnection and Bayesian inference hypotheses respectively. Secondly, we compare model predictions against the accumulated empirical evidence and finally we identify specific hypotheses that have been left relatively under-investigated