Dr. Anastasia Kerr-German

We started our 5 week Theories of Human Neuroscience series-proud of these undergrads grasping classics 👌.

I want to invite all my DCN colleagues and students to submit to our special issue! mdpi.com/journal/behavs…

🚨New article alert!🚨 From our Turtle Project, Nila Shakiba et al. found that parent-child concordance moderated associations between parenting and child internalizing/externalizing in behaviorally inhibited youth @nickjameswagner #umdadhd doi.org/10.1017/S09545…

Legend says they’re still looking for the ball.. 😂

I just returned from two weeks in Japan, and I have to be honest, it really opened my eyes to how far behind the U.S. is falling in so many basic ways. Some things that stood out: - In two weeks across some of Japan’s most densely populated cities, I saw only two visibly homeless people. - I saw one person who appeared to be struggling with addiction. - High-speed rail made affordable, clean, efficient transportation the norm, not a fantasy. - I never once felt unsafe letting my kids walk freely beside me in public. - Despite having far fewer public trash cans, Japan’s streets had a fraction of the litter. - The country’s reduced income inequality was visible everywhere, from housing to public services. I already know what some right-wing folks will say: “It’s because Japan has low immigration” or “It’s not run by Democrats.” But those are lazy excuses and distractions from the real issues. The truth? We’ve normalized dysfunction in the U.S., and we make excuses for it instead of demanding better.

Disabled people are not expendable. The elderly are not expendable. Children are not expendable. We must stop assessing worth based on perceived economic contributions. No one should have to prove they “matter” to get basic healthcare, housing, food or education.

Are College Professors Still Relevant In The Age Of AI? via @forbes forbes.com/sites/sergeire…

The older I get the more conviction I have about the NECESSITY of universal Healthcare and free public college tuition for every American. America is the only developed nation where we know it is possible and can be easily accomplished... yet it is not a priority. Idiocracy...

Let’s talk about COVID, brain damage & society. Specifically, what happens when a neurotropic virus repeatedly infects the population, targeting the frontal lobe & almost nobody talks about the consequences? This thread is for the skeptics. I’m a neurologist, stay with me 🧵

@lisamurkowski Then you must should have voted no. If it isn't ready and good for all AND Alaska, then it isn't good enough. What if every state voted like this-we become the United Nations not the United States...

This was one of the hardest votes I have taken during my time in the Senate.   My goal throughout the reconciliation process has been to make a bad bill better for Alaska, and in many ways, we have done that. In addition to extending pro-growth tax cuts, a larger child tax credit, and no tax on tips or overtime, we made a historic investment and modernization of the Coast Guard; enhanced our border security and national defense; funded aviation safety, including AWOS/VWOS systems that will save lives; and provided tax-exempt status for the Community Development Quota Program to help western Alaska communities establish a sustainable economy, among other provisions.   We have advanced new opportunities for resource development in the NPR-A, the Coastal Plain, and Cook Inlet that will help us create jobs and increase the share of revenues our state receives. I also co-led the Senate effort to restore a slightly longer phase-out for wind and solar tax credits while deleting a punitive excise tax targeting them.   Those provisions will benefit our economy, but it is the people of Alaska that I worry about the most, especially when it comes to the potential loss of social safety net programs—Medicaid coverage and SNAP benefits—that our most vulnerable populations rely on.   To address the bill’s shortcomings, we have helped our communities through a $50 billion rural health fund. This will mean hundreds of millions of dollars for Alaska hospitals, community health centers, and other providers. We secured commitments from the CMS Administrator to continue to address longstanding priorities which will directly help Bartlett, Fairbanks Memorial, Central Peninsula, and other hospitals in Alaska.   In the SNAP program, we have added tribal exemptions for work requirements, delayed cost-share penalties to help Alaska get benefits to the people who need them, and included work requirement waivers that align with our Medicaid policies. We also secured commitments from the Secretary of Agriculture to provide additional flexibilities to Alaska for SNAP.   But, let’s not kid ourselves. This has been an awful process—a frantic rush to meet an artificial deadline that has tested every limit of this institution. While we have worked to improve the present bill for Alaska, it is not good enough for the rest of our nation—and we all know it.   My sincere hope is that this is not the final product. This bill needs more work across chambers and is not ready for the President’s desk. We need to work together to get this right.

Every machine in a Hospital that diagnoses your body without cutting you open is based on a principle of Physics, discovered by a Physicist who had no interest in Medicine. If you think the world doesn’t need Basic Science, or that somehow Science has failed you, think again.

Check out our new publication from the lab! mdpi.com/2673-8430/5/2/… So proud of my fabulous student authors!

You cannot grow coffee and vanilla in the U.S. Vanilla takes 3 years to flower, 9 months per pod, needs hand pollination. Coffee needs 3–4 years to yield beans. Both demand tropical heat and humidity. Not hype - just ag reality.

Science cannot thrive without the next generation.

The CDC has literally been gutted today. There’s no need for “April Fools” when reality is a nightmare for every human on this planet. Thousand of scientists fired. Entire departments erased. 1/

Advice on cognitive neuroscience, psychopathology in humans, or development where we can publish that doesn't charge $2,000 to publish? I just had to retract a paper from Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience due to inability to pay the fee with funding in the USA right now.

I found out this morning that my @NIH @NICHD_NIH F31 fellowship to study the biomechanics of uterine fibroids was CANCELLED.