Wired – Discusses technological efforts to address mental health, including CrossCheck, an application created by researchers from the Dartmouth Psychiatric Research Center, which is not yet publicly available.

Springfield News-Leader – Cites a joint study conducted by Geisel, the YMCA, and the Institute for American Values, which suggests that “authoritative communities” are essential in helping children develop meaningful relationships and connections to moral and spiritual meaning.

Dallas Observer – Cites Professor of Medicine Lisa Schwartz’s views on research regarding hormone replacement and body function.

The Manchester Journal – Quotes Brooke Pringle, clinical instructor in community and family medicine, on her recent appointment at Southwestern Vermont Medical Center.

The Conversation – Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Professor of Physiology and Neurobiology Leslie Henderson poses the question, “is there something in our neural circuits that leads us to find comfort in those like us and unease with those who may differ?”

Valley News – Former tenured professor at Geisel Victor Ambros was one of six 2015 life science Breakthrough Prize laureates, who each won $3 million on Sunday, for the discovery of genetic regulation by microRNAs, a class of tiny molecules that can prevent messenger RNA from transmitting genetic information.

The New York Times – Cites research by Professor of Medicine H. Gilbert Welch and Honor Passow, curriculum designer and learning specialist at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, which found that if a 50-year-old woman is screened annually for a decade, she has a 50 percent chance of receiving a false-positive diagnosis somewhere along the way.

Valley News – Features Associate Professor of Medicine Elizabeth Talbot, who is stationed in Liberia with a humanitarian agency at the newly established “Ebola University,” working to help control the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.

U.S. News and World Report via HealthDay News – Discusses a study by Professor of Radiology William Black, which concluded that lung cancer screenings performed by skilled professionals on a very specific set of long-time smokers, could cost less for each year of quality life gained than the generally accepted $100,000-per-year threshold for cost effectiveness.