Although contemporary socio-cultural changes dramatically increased fathers' involvement in childrearing, little is known about the brain basis of human fatherhood, its comparability with the maternal brain, and its sensitivity to caregiving...
People develop differently. As infants, we study action and reaction. As children, we embrace a set of morals, attitudes and beliefs. Parents, relatives, and environments teach us various lessons, which create expectations for life. Our world view is...
CRISTIAN OMAR REYES, an 11-year-old sixth grader in the neighborhood of Nueva Suyapa, on the outskirts of Tegucigalpa, tells me he has to get out of Honduras soon — “no matter what.” In March, his father was robbed and murdered by...
[Image: Lucinda Schreiber for NPR] ...But in new research, [ Sarah] Damaske argues that another factor might have been at play. It's a factor that sociologists such as Arlie Hochschild and psychiatrists such as Sigmund Freud have examined in the past. Hochschild, for one, found that many people find work to be less stressful than their home lives. Work was, in fact, a haven. Freud once said work and love were two wellsprings of emotional satisfaction in life. In a ...
Instead of cultural competencies, Helena Hansen , an assistant professor of psychiatry and anthropology at New York University, and a research psychiatrist at the Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, along with her colleague Jonathan...
[Adam Fagen/Flickr] New data from the U.S. Census Bureau offers encouraging news for cyclists: Nationally, bicycle commuting increased 61 percent between the 2000 Census and a 2008-2012 survey . But there's considerable work to do before we bike ride into the sunset. Our research shows that in some places, the people who ride are mostly wealthy and white. Take Washington, D.C., for example. American Community Survey data show that D.C. bicycle commuting increased an astounding 208 percent...
Heroin overdose deaths have surged in recent years. Now the Centers for Disease Control reports that the increase has occurred almost entirely among whites. This chart comes from a CDC report looking at fatal overdoses involving heroin during the...
Recent findings from two studies, including an 11-year study of 63,000 people in Norway, strengthen the evidence linking depression and heart disease. Researchers also found that patients who were physically inactive were more likely to experience...
A third of Alzheimer's disease cases worldwide can be attributed to risk factorss that can be potentially modified, such as lack of education and physical inactivity, according to NIHR-funded research published in The Lancet Neurology today. Current...
Researchers questioned study participants about the previous day's stressors before giving them a meal consisting of 930 calories and 60 grams of fat . The scientists then measured their metabolic rate – how long it took the women to burn...
Peering through the chain link of a holding pen at the Cook County Jail, a man wrapped in a navy varsity jacket leans toward clinical social worker Elli Petacque Montgomery, his bulging eyes a clue that something’s not right. “They say I...
[Photo: Jennifer S. Altman for the New York Times] Once consigned to Hollywood entourages to keep celebrities on the straight and narrow (and out of rehab), sobriety coaches, also known as sober companions and recovery therapists, are being hired by well-heeled mothers from the Upper East Side to the beachfront homes of Boca Raton, Fla. ...Jeanne, a remarried mother who shares custody of her 11-year-old daughter with her ex-husband, said that she never slurred her words at cocktail...
Eat more when you're stressed? You're not alone. More than a third of the participants in a conducted by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard School of Public Health said they change their diets during stressful times. And many of...
...[DeQuincy] Lezine and [Cara] Anna, who now lives in New York City, are pioneers in a movement demanding a voice for suicide attempt survivors. They helped craft a issued Monday by the that calls for evidence-based support and treatment for people who have had (or are having) suicidal thoughts. That includes support groups and peer counseling for people who've been suicidal; compassionate and humane treatment for people in the midst of a suicide crisis; respite centers and other...
...On average, servicemen and women are prescribed narcotic painkillers three times more often than civilians. But despite the pain and PTSD, some of them have decided, without telling their doctors, to stop taking their medications. Leo Kalberg...