New research suggests the stress hormone cortisol strengthens memories of traumatic or scary experiences. The hormone appears to influence initial memory formation and also affects subsequent memory reconsolidation that occurs when people look...
When the video above was filmed, the girl on the bed was 17 years old. For the purposes of this story, I’ll call her Jamie. There was a time when she liked acting in goofy comedy skits at her Detroit church or crawling into bed with...
Until now, if you wanted to know how a school district’s high school graduation rate fared against other states or regions, you’d have to rely on state averages from the federal government. We decided that’s not good enough....
A group of tech entrepreneurs from Silicon Valley has taken on a huge task — trying to transform an entire community’s health status in five places across the country, in just five years. One of those targets is in rural Lake...
More than 150,000 U.S. families are homeless each year. The number has been going down, in part because of a program known as rapid rehousing , which quickly moves families out of shelters and into homes. But new research by the Obama...
The Los Angeles Police Department’s mental evaluation unit is the largest mental health policing program of its kind in the nation, with 61 sworn officers and 28 mental health workers from the county. The unit has become a...
When Kate Klein began working as a nurse in the Cleveland Clinic's Neurointensive Care Unit, one of the first things she noticed was that her patients spent a lot of time in bed. She knew patients with other injuries benefitted from getting up...
This story was originally published by The Marshall Project and Vice News . The Marshall Project is a nonprofit news organization focused on the U.S. criminal justice system. You can sign up for their ...
Son, Last Sunday the host of a popular news show asked me what it meant to lose my body. The host was broadcasting from Washington, D.C., and I was seated in a remote studio on the Far West Side of Manhattan. A satellite closed the miles...
The Los Angeles Police Department's mental evaluation unit is the largest mental health policing program of its kind in the nation, with 61 sworn officers and 28 mental health workers from the county. The unit has become a vital...
The paintings of boys brushed with the colors of childhood, blue jeans and red cheeks, decorate the living room at Wild Rose Farm . Two portraits, one of J.T. Lewis and one of his little brother, Jesse, hang above the piano. Another...
A grassroots movement led by people in the town of Bemidji, Minnesota, and their neighbors both on and off nearby reservations have set out to find a path to reconciliation between whites and American Indians. No government is taking part; no...
Last week, I had a chance to speak with young men and women who just graduated; some from high school and some from college. They all had one thing in common -- they grew up facing adversity in their childhood homes. They also shared one other...
The smile on Austen Heinz's face was unguarded and brief. It was the involuntary, small upturn of the corners the mouth that escapes when something genuinely makes you happy. For Heinz, it was seeing the surfers at Del Mar. He raised his...
When the nation’s top teachers were asked about the biggest barriers to students’ success, most didn’t point to reasons inside the classroom. Instead, they ranked family stress and poverty as the main issues facing students....