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The FSU College of Medicine's Department of Geriatrics, through a federal training grant, partnered with Tallahassee Police and Leon County Emergency Management Services, to create training video that show how to better respond to emergency situations involving persons with dementia.

Meaghan Kane, a second-year student at the Florida State University College of Medicine, participated in Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation's 2021 Summer Institute for Medical Students program. Kane shares how her week shadowing clinicians and patients at Hazelden Betty Ford in Newberg, Oregon, deepened her understanding of how she can best help future patients and their families.

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A new study led by FSU College of Medicine Professor Antonio Terracciano, Ph.D. and published in the Journal of Affective Disorders, sheds light on the connection between neuroticism and the risk of mortality from a variety of causes. Data collected from nearly a half million participants in the UK Biobank was used to provide a more detailed understanding of the link by examining specific causes of death.
 

Loneliness raises a person’s risk of developing Parkinson’s disease within 15 years, a long-term study of nearly half a million U.K. residents found, supporting calls into the therapeutic benefits of personally significant social bonds.

This work adds to evidence “that loneliness is a substantial psychosocial determinant of health,” the researchers wrote in the study “Loneliness and Risk of Parkinson Disease,” published in JAMA Neurology
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