"The question this paper asks that has not been asked before is whether it is just fitness that influences children's cognition," said Dr. Catherine Davis, clinical health psychologist at the Georgia Prevention Institute at the Medical College...
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) today announced the eight winners of the 2015 RWJF Culture of Health Prize,honored for working to ensure that everyone in their community has the opportunity to live a longer, healthier and...
We all experience st ress, and it can actually be a good thing. But too much can take a pretty big toll. A recent video from TED-Ed explains what happens to your body when its exposed to too much stress for too long. Dr. Sharon Horesh Bergquist...
Traditional medical opinion has held that people who have experienced an episode of major depression are at high risk for having another episode. New research suggests this may not always be the case as researchers discovered the risk of...
Google’s parent company Alphabet has just hired Thomas Insel, the former head of the National Institute of Mental Health, who has some pretty weird ideas about what his new job will entail. Insel told a crowd at Chicago Ideas Week that he...
When Ronald Rogers was 14, his family moved from Bridgeport, Connecticut, to Los Angeles, California. For Rogers, a talented football player, that meant leaving behind a football scholarship to a private high school in Connecticut. It also...
Thirteen teenagers crowded a small, unadorned stage in the Wind River Hotel and Casino ballroom in early June. They wore bright white shirts, but the tees proved flimsy armor in the expectant gaze of 100 adult faces. Kids fidgeted, stared at...
Children do not often figure in discussions of incarceration, but new research finds more than five million U.S. children have had at least one parent in prison at one time or another—about three times higher than earlier estimates that...
Arizona, where I was born, in July became the first state to cut poor families’ access to welfare assistance to a maximum of 12 months over a lifetime. That’s a fifth of the time allowed under federal law, and means that 5,000 more...
Videos of a white sheriff’s deputy throwing a black high school girl to the floor of a classroom thrust this community into an unsettling national discussion Tuesday about whether black students are disproportionately punished. ...
Last year, Erin and Isaac Hougland of Indianapolis got certified to become foster parents, with the hope of adopting a baby. Just a few weeks later, they got a call. An 8-week-old baby needed a home. All they knew was that the boy's mother was...
Developing relationships and fostering connection is the foundation to creating a healthy and resilient community full of thriving people. In late October 2015, a Connection Packet was mailed to Homer, AK residents to support a conversation...
Hayden Panettiere, star of one of my favorite TV shows, whose character in "Nashville" is battling postpartum depression and addiction, is ironically struggling with it in real life too! She entered a clinic for treatment and went public about her...
In a new juvenile detention practice guide, LGBT Youth in the Juvenile Justice System , the Casey Foundation documents the vulnerability of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) youth in communities and in justice...
Stigma is one of the most challenging aspects of living with a mental health condition. It causes people to feel ashamed for something that is out of their control and prevents many from seeking the help they need and speaking out. In order to...