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The drug addicts’ brain scans that Dr. Stephen Dewey takes appear in psychedelic shades of red, yellow, green and blue, each indicating a level of brain activity — or inactivity. Red means excited. Blue is dormant.
Dewey is the laboratory director for behavioral and molecular neuro-imaging at the North Shore-LIJ Feinstein Institute for Medical Research. In that capacity, he’s put hundreds of addicts’ brains to the test — the positron emission tomography test, that is — seeking to understand precisely what happens to the mind when a pot smoker lights up or a heroin junkie shoots up.
And, he has found, it isn’t pretty.
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By Scott Brinton
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11/11/15
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Dr. Scott Goldstein hopes this weekend is an uneventful one for him when Pope Francis visits Philadelphia on Saturday, the final leg of his highly anticipated and historic trip to the U.S., preceded by stops in Washington and New York City.
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By David Weingrad
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9/23/15
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The summer months at Sewanhaka Central High School District have been filled with excitement as some of the renovations approved as part of the district’s May 2014 bond referendum are nearing …
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9/3/15
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As we approach the upcoming school year, we will be celebrating the 87 years of instruction in the Sewanhaka Central High School District. Before our students arrive this month, our professional …
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By Dr. Ralph Ferrie, Ed.D., Sewanhaka CHSD Superintendent
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9/3/15
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Sewanhaka Central High School District has launched a Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/pages/Sewanhaka-Central-High-School-District/1621468398125144.
The Facebook page offers the district …
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8/20/15
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Before school ended in June, the Sewanhaka High School Students and Teachers Against Cancer (STAC) club held a Cardio and Kickboxing Class to help raise money for the Sloan-Kettering Cancer …
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8/13/15
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On Monday, June 22, Sewanhaka High School invited the graduating class of 2015 to the school cafeteria one last time for a special senior brunch event.
Students were served a breakfast of eggs, …
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8/6/15
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New Hyde Park Memorial High School’s Italian language students participated in the annual Italian National Examination.
More than 5,500 students from 140 schools in the nation participated …
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8/6/15
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H. Frank Carey High School honored 132 seniors for their academics, community involvement, and/or their personal qualities during its recent annual Senior Awards Night.
The event was organized by …
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7/30/15
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In April 2014, two students at St. Anthony’s High School, in South Huntington, brought a Confederate flag to a sporting event. They were subsequently expelled. Later that month, Newsday published an editorial . . .
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7/29/15
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