With criminal justice reform becoming a bipartisan policy issue, one of the central arguments bringing conservatives, such as Mike Lee (R-UT), John Cornyn (R-TX), and Rick Perry (R-TX), to the table is the heavy financial burden...
When Nell Bernstein, the editor of a youth newspaper, looked at her staff, she saw bright young people at work. But in those years, the 1990s, some looked at those same faces and saw little more than a threat — and began to react with...
Your heart health, which is optimal for most of us at birth, can decline substantially with unhealthy childhood behaviors, according to research in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, an American Heart Association journal....
Longer duration of breastfeeding is linked with increased intelligence in adulthood, longer schooling, and higher adult earnings, a study following a group of almost 3500 newborns for 30 years published in The Lancet Global Health journal has found....
A new diet, appropriately known by the acronym MIND, could significantly lower a person's risk of developing Alzheimer's disease, even if the diet is not meticulously followed, according to a paper published online for subscribers in March in...
Obese women have around a 40 per cent greater risk of developing a weight-related cancer in their lifetime than women of a healthy weight, according to new figures released by Cancer Research UK today. Obesity increases a woman's risk of...
Stress can be memory’s best friend. But when you forget where you put the car keys, stress can also make you feel stupid. One expert, Rajita Sinha, a professor of psychiatry and neurobiology at Yale University, sorts through the effects...
A loving mom can't overcome the anxiety and aggression caused by corporal punishment, and her otherwise warm demeanor may make it worse, according to research led by Duke University that was recently published in the Journal of Clinical Child...
As a society, we don't talk much about emotions. Conversations tend to focus more on what we're doing or what we're thinking. In fact, most people find it easier to start sentences with, "I think..." instead of "I feel..." simply because it...
From Abstract: Parent education has a positive impact on children, parents, families, and the community. CHILDREN AT RISK and Bracewell & Giuliani LLP conducted a policy scan of state statutes regarding parent education. Full article may be downloaded from the open access journal, Journal of Applied Research on Children: Informing Policy for Children at Risk Nancy Correa, Bethanie Van Horne, Christopher Greeley, & Angelo Giardino. A National Survey of Parent Support...
More and more people from across different sectors are screening people for ACEs . They’re also educating them about ACEs at the same time. I’m working on a couple of stories — one is about home visiting programs in Washington...
In my first "My ACES and Me" blog post published one month ago, [Feb 18, 2015] I invited you all along with me on a brief tour of the 7 (or 6, or 8?) adverse childhood experience categories that make up my ACES score. At the time of that writing, I had fully expected to continue that story line in chronological fashion, sharing the first, initial consequences in my life as I crossed the ACES time boundary of 21 years old and beyond. Perhaps I believed that further...
It follows a review of services by a government taskforce which has found that too many young people are not getting the help they need. Growing numbers are also presenting with increasingly complex and severe problems, it says. In response,...
Joe Sifer was a moody, agitated and sometimes angry young employee at Booz Allen Hamilton in 1996. He suffered at work. He was told he had potential but he needed help. Now a senior vice president at that same strategy and technology firm,...
People don't talk about psychiatrists the way they talk about neurologists, dentists or vets. In fact, there are those who call psychiatry voodoo or pseudoscience; and, to be fair, the specialty does have a history of claims and practices that...