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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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The community came together to rally behind Long Beach High School as it celebrated an eventful 2015 homecoming on Oct. 16. Though the Marines we unable to best their competitors from Mepham High …
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10/29/15
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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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Four Long Beach High School students have been selected to participate in All-State musical ensembles, a prestigious honor that resulted from their New York State School Music Association audition …
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9/17/15
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The Long Beach School District recently appointed Claude Irwin, a longtime educator with a military background, as the vice principal Long Beach High School.
He said that one of the main things …
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By Matthew Ern
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9/10/15
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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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There is a tremendous amount of paperwork to be done, much of it with strict due dates. OK, let’s get into the nuts and bolts of it.
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7/16/15
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Jake Thomas and Alex Vargas, both 21, played baseball together in 2011 at Calhoun High School under legendary coach Joe Corea. In 2010, Thomas led the Colts squad that captured the Nassau County Class AA title. In 2012, Vargas played a critical role in the Colts’ victory at the Long Island Class AA championship.
Major League teams recently drafted them both.
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By Julie Mansmann
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7/15/15
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Long Beach Middle School’s eighth-graders proved the old adage that the end of one chapter marks the beginning of another as they celebrated their transition to high school during their moving up …
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7/9/15
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For the members of the Long Beach High School swim team, Coach Woodward “Woody” Davis was more than an instructor. For 50 years he inspired his swimmers to believe in themselves and to enjoy …
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By Matthew Ern
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7/8/15
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