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As the sounds of an abusive husband interrogating his partner intensify off-screen, a camera pans up a flight of stairs. A young boy, maybe 3, sits in knitted pajamas at the top of the staircase, cradling a plastic yellow truck. He listens intently as the sickening cacophony grows, while his parents’ shadows dance off the walls. Screams and shouts turn to tears and pleading before the sharp crack of a blow reverberates throughout the house. Though we never the see the punch, the...

A new scientific model that incorporates the myriad drivers of depression could lead to more precise treatment for an illness that affects 350 million worldwide. Developed by scientists at Michigan State University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, the model provides a better understanding of depression and the foundation for creating a pioneering tool to attack the complex disorder. A paper outlining the research team's...

In one of the 20th century’s most disastrous collisions of political ideology and science, the Russian botanist Trofim Lysenko steered the USSR’s agricultural research policies to deemphasize the deterministic concepts of Mendelian inheritance. Instead, Lysenko was committed to the idea that, within the space of a single generation, the environment could alter the phenotype of future generations, an idea that is now often (imprecisely) referred to as “Lamarckian”...

Just minutes before the Chicago Police Department released a video Tuesday of a white police officer shooting a black teenager to death, several groups of black activists marched to Cook County state's attorney Anita Alvarez's office on the near west side of Chicago to attend a community forum. She had waited too long to charge officer Jason Van Dyke for the murder of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald, they said. It was more than a year after the October 2014 shooting and the charges came only...

Last year Susan Avey, the principal of Bogle Junior High School in Chandler, Ariz., had a heart-to-heart with one of her new teachers about how he was relating to students. In a previous year, this might have been a conversation based on subjective...

Hi Code Switch readers! I'm here from NPR Music, where I mostly cover jazz. I thought you might be interested two big performances we recently featured in which the artists took a moment to talk about police intimidation and violence against...

Every child who walks into Judge Mary Ann Turner 's courtroom gazes upon a large painting of a waterfall flowing between thickets of trees painted in bright hues of blue, yellow and green. The landscape was created by kids and stands as a...

For the month of November, your Partner for Healing has been sharing the books that made all the difference. If you read these four books you work will be transformed. They are:   Building the Bonds of Attachment by Daniel Hughes The Boy who was...

  Sometime  between 11 am ET and 9 pm ET Wednesday, Dec. 2 ,  ACEsConnection.com will go offline .  Two hours later, it will reappear  with a new look. Most of the functions — posting a blog, a calendar event, navigating...

  Local jails in the United States serve an estimated 2 million people with serious mental illnesses each year. Three out of four incarcerated individuals also suffer from a substance use disorder. Once incarcerated, these individuals tend to...

  Methylphenidate—better known by its brand name, Ritalin—has long been a popular and controversial drug. It treats attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, diagnoses of which have  risen sharply  over the past...

  Neuroscience has revealed in recent years that trauma resulting from adverse childhood events can actually change the brain — for the worse — of a developing child. And their thought processes and behaviors can become impaired as a...