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Therapy makes rehab a walk in the garden: Wesley Woods horticulture therapist Kirk Hines works with Towers resident Connie Vaughan in the hospital’s therapeutic greenhouse. Therapists at Wesley Woods and the Center for Rehabilitation Medicine find that gardening is good for both physical and emotional therapy. “[It] utilizes the innate closeness we feel toward nature as a vehicle in professionally conducted therapy and rehabilitation,” Hines says. Click here or above for the full story. Photo by Kay Hinton.

 

 

 

 

 

Parr learns chimpanzees can second that emotion: Yerkes’ Lisa Parr says chimpanzees not only are capable of experiencing emotion at a cognitive level, they also can derive emotional meaning from social symbols such as facial expressions in this Scholarship and Research story. “This has important evolutionary implications [for understanding human social interactions],” Parr says. Click here or above for the full story. Photo by Kay Hinton.

 

 

   

 

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