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Preparing for Population Aging

25 Sep 2018

As a member of the British House of Lords, Baroness Sally Greengross presides over parliamentary groups examining dementia, corporate social responsibility, intergenerational futures, and continence care. She has been an ambassador for the...

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Sally Greengross

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The Key to Forming Long-Term Memories

28 Dec 2018

NYU Professor, André Fenton, is a neurobiologist studying how brains store experiences as memories and how self-expression works with memory to give us information that matters. In an interview with the Milken Institute Center for the of...

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André Fenton

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Achieving Mind-Body Balance

16 Mar 2021

Deepak Chopra is a pioneer in integrative medicine and personal transformation. Time magazine has described him as "one of the top 100 heroes and icons of the century.” In an interview with the Milken Institute Center for the Future of...

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Deepak Chopra

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The Best Way to Improve Brain Health

5 Oct 2018

Renowned neurosurgeon, Keith Black, has pioneered advances in our understanding and treatment of brain cancers and complex neurological conditions. Black is also a research scientist studying targeted drug delivery, cancer stem cells, and...

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Keith Black

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More than a Quarter of People Living with Depression and Bipolar Report Symptoms Began Before Age 12

10 Sep 2018

WASHINGTON, September 10, 2018 – Twenty-seven percent of people living with depression or bipolar report that their symptoms began before age 12 and two-thirds reported that symptoms began prior to age 18. These preliminary findings are the...

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How Universities Drive Innovation in Aging

13 Nov 2017

Aging is big business. A growing demand for everything from comfortable shoes to on-call caregivers prompted a New York Times headline to declare baby boomers as the hottest start-up market in 2016. In fact, the sum of all economic activity...

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News Release

Drug Enforcement Administration and Discovery Education Join Forces With Milken Institute to Announce Drug Prevention Call To Action At 2017 Future of Health Summit

25 Oct 2017

(Washington, D.C. – Tuesday, October 24, 2017) To combat America’s rapidly growing opioid and heroin epidemic, the Milken Institute’s Lynda and Stewart Resnick Center for Public Health is joining forces with the United States Drug...

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The Power of Purposeful Aging

6 Dec 2016

This report explains the many physical and cognitive benefits that older people gain when they provide service to others, and the broad social and economic opportunities that derive from their contributions as they age with purpose. “The...

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Epilepsy - A Giving Smarter Guide

9 Oct 2016

At the time of this report, approximately 30 to 40 percent of epilepsy patients were treatment resistant. The most catastrophic forms of epilepsy occur in very young children and have a lifelong negative impact on patients, families, and...

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Sonya B. Dumanis

Formerly Milken Institute

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Neurofibromatosis Type 1 - A Giving Smarter Guide

2 Jun 2016

With no effective therapies and no cure, Neurofibromatosis Type 1 (NF1) is a genetic disease that can cause a broad range of abnormalities all throughout the body. A hallmark feature of the disease is the growth of tumors on nerves...

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YooRi Kim, LaTese Briggs, Erik Lontok, Ekemini Riley, and Melissa Stevens

2 Jun 2016

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