She arrives wearing baggy sweat pants and over sized shirts, and I know she is living out of the "truth" she has assigned to her sense of self. She is walking in what she believes is her truth. Actually, it isn't true that she is shameful or...
In the aftermath of the shooting massacre in Charleston, South Carolina, many people are asking how and why this tragedy could have happened. It is not a simple question, but it does have concrete answers. And a group of professors...
The effects of mental health disorders followed adolescents into adulthood, resulting in poorer education and employment, according to a series of meta-analyses on the relationship between adolescent health and adult outcomes. Daniel R. Hale,...
Everything about Rilya Wilson’s death was horrific. She entered the Florida foster system a bright-eyed toddler, and disappeared when she was about 4 years old. And it took the state Department of Children and Families—responsible...
In the mid-nineteen-eighties, shortly after the convictions of six members of the House of Representatives and one senator in the F.B.I. bribery sting code-named Abscam, one of the bureau’s anticorruption units turned its attention...
How to manage stress effectively is one of life’s great challenges – for example our survey of public and voluntary sector professionals found that 93% said they are stressed at work either all, some, or a lot of the...
So many of us are overwhelmed by what feels like nonstop, never-ending demands at work and at home, with smartphones keeping us always on and workplaces that often demand we do more with less. Scott Eblin, a former corporate executive and now...
“If you have a child with cancer, you wouldn’t wait until they had reached stage four cancer before starting treatment. It’s no different with an eating disorder, because if you delay treatment, then the illness becomes more...
Drive west from downtown Cincinnati, over the railroad tracks that snake beneath the 8th Street Viaduct, and you’ll find a little slice of Appalachia, nestled between the Ohio River and the steep slopes of Price Hill. When coal mining jobs in...
The first time 18-year-old Isaac came across a question on a college application that asked if he had ever faced disciplinary action in high school, he decided to be honest and checked the “yes” box. Asked for more information, he...
High Bridge, spanning the Harlem River and connecting Manhattan to the Bronx, is the oldest bridge in New York City. It is also an aqueduct, or used to be. Built in the 1840s, when public health officials across the country were battling...
Exposure to air pollution may hasten brain aging, a new study has found. Researchers studied 1,403 women without dementia who were initially enrolled in a large health study from 1996 to 1998. They measured their brain volume with M.R.I. scans in 2005...
I'm proud to say Rick Hanson shared this last night on his Buddha's Brain Facebook page ( https://www.facebook.com/BuddhasBrain?fref=ts ) My favorite color thinking is black and white. And mindfulness is all rainbow complex. I’m a...
Making Clark County a healthier place to grow up — and to live out your life — is the emphasis behind the biggest grants in a big round of giving just announced by the Community Foundation for Southwest Washington. The local...
Psychiatric disorders can be difficult to diagnose because clinicians must rely upon interpreted clues, such as a patient’s behaviors and feelings. For the first time, researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine...