On a recent Sunday night, Liz Paul was tired. She'd worked in the morning, spent a full day with her family and she did not feel like going out for her daily jog. "I tweeted out, 'Well, it's 9 p.m. on Sunday and I didn't work out,' " she says,...
Carlos Romero's apartment is marked with remnants from his former life: a giant television from his days playing World of Warcraft and a pair of jeans the width of an easy chair. Remnants of that time — when he weighed 437 pounds —...
The beginning of the NFL's 2014 season has been marked by scandals around players' off-field behavior. But each time the league mustered an official response, it seemed to invite even more criticism — especially in the case of Ray Rice,...
Hardly a week goes by without some brain imaging study making the rounds in science news. Last week we read that women had similar patterns of brain activation in brain regions associated with emotion, reward and affiliations when looking at...
MANY workers now feel as if they’re doing the job of three people. They are on call 24 hours a day. They rush their children from tests to tournaments to tutoring. The stress is draining, both mentally and physically. At least that is the...
Think back to your first childhood crush. Maybe it was a classmate or a friend next door. Most likely, through school and into adulthood, your affections continued to focus on others in your approximate age group. But imagine if they did not....
With my bicycle ride across the country now over and done with, I found myself in need of a hair cut. So, my feisty 83-year-old mother escorted me to her hair salon to meet her hairdresser, Maria. And so the story begins as some stories do, a...
It typically follows that after experiencing something extraordinary - such as skydiving, going on an amazing vacation or eating at a 5-star restaurant - we want to share the details with our friends. But a new study suggests there are social...
Brain structures involved in dealing with pain and stress (Source: Wikimedia Commons)/The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) According to research by AMC in Amsterdam, one in six victims of a serious accident develop post traumatic...
Before her drinking spiraled out of control, Sylvia Dobrow “drank like a lady,” as she put it, matching her wine to her sandwiches: “Tuna and chardonnay, roast beef and rosé.” But soon she was “drinking...
Child poverty increased in 35 of the biggest U.S. cities in the past eight years, and millions of children now live in families barely scraping by, a new analysis shows. Among the 50 biggest cities, Detroit; Cleveland; Fresno, Calif.; Memphis,...
The Board of Supervisors Tuesday voted to set aside $20 million to fund mental health services, substance abuse treatment, job counseling, as well as supportive housing for mentally ill offenders as an alternative to incarceration. “We...
People who have had a very mild form of stroke called a transient ischemic attack, or TIA, are at risk of post-traumatic stress disorder, with almost one-third of people later diagnosed with PTSD, a study finds. Earlier studies have shown that...
Dr. Charles Limb is an Associate Professor in the Johns Hopkins Department of Otolaryngology — Head and Neck Surgery, as well as faculty at the Peabody Conservatory of Music. He combines his two passions to study the way the brain creates...
Recently we have begun having discussions with ACEs Connection community members as part of a national movement to prevent trauma and promote resiliency—the National Collaborative on Adversity and Resilience (NCAR). In a series of blog posts, I...