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Seasonal Depression in College Students
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Student Spotlight: Postpartum Depression Research with Eileen Yu
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Doctoral Candidate Nicolette Granata and the Social Cognition Lab
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Music Is Medicine: The Effects of Music Therapy on Cognition
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Neuroscience in the Courtroom
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Professor Spotlight: A Q&A with Dr. Ashleigh Maxcey
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Brain Computer Interfaces: The Future of Healthcare is Now
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Eureka!
Creativity, a culturally fluid concept, is abstract and is reinforced by behaviors such as what we categorize as creative. The next logical question is: What makes an activity creative?