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The Wisconsin Department of Health Services, sends out this list of links every couple of weeks. Most of the links are from posts on ACEsConnection, and, as you can see, they're organized by category. ACEs, Adversity's Impact Show & Tell Severe inequality Is incompatible with the American dream Why extreme wealth makes it hard for people to do better than their parents did Brain and Biology Rhythm of breathing affects memory, fear. Breathing is not just for oxygen; it's also linked to...

I write in my most recent book, My Journey of Healing in Life After Trauma, Part 2, how children can be saved from the emotional damage of growing up in a toxic home.

When the U.S. government hired photographer Dorothea Lange in 1942, she thought she'd be documenting history for the world to see. While she was personally opposed to internment, Lange accepted the government's offer in hopes that her work would provide a valuable record of events for future generations. For more than 60 years, Lange's work sat in the National Archives, hidden from public view. The decision to house Japanese-Americans in internment camps is largely looked back on as a scar...

While we enjoy the comfort and advantages technology has brought, it would be catastrophic to ignore the continuous detrimental impacts it has had and continues to have on low to mid skill job markets.

Most restaurants close their doors for Christmas day, but one is leaving theirs wide open: Shish Restaurant in southeast London. On Dec. 25, they will be serving free, three-course meals to the homeless and elderly. Manager Irfan Can Genc tells NPR's Allison Aubrey on All Things Considered the dinner is a way to build bridges between the Muslim community and the city of London.

[Photo by sam deng ] The brain and the immune system are not fully formed at birth, but rather continue to mature in response to the postnatal environment. The two-way interaction between the brain and the immune system makes it possible for childhood psychosocial stressors to affect immune system development, which in turn can affect brain development and its long-term functioning. Drawing from experimental animal models and observational human studies, we propose that the...

Meredith Sawyer is an early childhood educator in Greensboro, North Carolina, who has been teaching for more than a decade. But as she reflects on the last seven years as a transitional kindergarten teacher in a childcare center that has the highest quality rating the state can offer — five stars — Sawyer realizes she’s grown tired of watching her peers meet life goals while she’s left unrewarded for her accomplishments and hard work. In a word? Sawyer is stuck. “I wait tables part time so I...

Digital health is booming. The market that includes health apps and wearables will increase around 1,200 percent over the next eight years, according to one forecast . So what’s propelling this surge in demand? “A growing proliferation of chronic diseases, namely diabetes, cancer and heart ailments … ” the report says. Not only is this trend alarming, said the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Stephen Downs at the recent Stanford Medicine X conference, but many of the solutions offered by...

The Department of Justice announced this week that an additional 11 tribes will be added to a program that allows tribal police and courts to exchange criminal information with federal databases. The Tribal Access Program, as it’s known, launched in August of 2015, and initially 10 tribes received training and equipment to obtain and submit records to national databases. [For more of this story, written by Kate Wheeling, go to ...

The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA) has been law since 2008. MHPAEA provided that health plans could not limit mental health or substance use disorder benefits in a way that was more restrictive than how most medical/surgical benefits were limited. This sounds simple enough, but in this year alone there has been a White House task force , voluminous Department of Labor guidance , a SAMHSA best practices manual , and an Energy & Commerce Committee hearing to find...

In our efforts to promote children’s health and wellness, we need to ensure that they grow up at a healthy weight. Preventing children from being overweight or obese requires action in the earliest years since experts agree that reversing these trends later in life can be very difficult. It is currently estimated that one in four children are overweight or obese by the time they enter kindergarten. Racial and ethnic minorities and those families who are poor are at higher risk of being...

Around two out of three women with anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa will eventually recover in their lifetime, according to a new study at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). “These findings challenge the notion that eating disorders are a life sentence,” said Kamryn Eddy, Ph.D., of the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Eating Disorders Clinical and Research Program. [For more of this story, written by Traci Pedersen, go to ...