NPR's Jon Hamilton takes a long look at the effects of neglect on children's developing brains: Parents do a lot more than make sure a child has food and shelter, researchers say. They play a critical role in brain development. More than a decade of...
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), long associated in the popular imagination with controversial treatment of the mentally ill, can be used to erase memories, Dutch researchers have found - raising hopes of a new treatment for post-traumatic stress...
The longer the period of time a child is bullied, the more severe and lasting the impact is on a child's health, according to a new study. The study is the first to examine the compounding effects of bullying from elementary school to high school. The...
WALNUT CREEK -- Communities filled with children who have been abused, neglected or are victims of trauma can include high levels of crime and violence, poor student performance and mental health issues. Contra Costa County has joined about 30 other...
Emergency department overdose visits involving heroin climbed 197 percent, and heroin-related deaths climbed 207 percent in Kentucky in 2012, while benzodiazepines were associated with the highest number of emergency department visits and...
If you enjoy reading or writing poetry this is a great resource for people of all ages. http://www.poetryfoundation.org/foundation/history-and-mission
I’d recommend reading the New York Times opinion piece written by the executive director of the Colorado Department of Corrections, Rick Raemisch, about his experience in solitary confinement (aka administrative segregation or Ad Seg) and the...
Neoteny refers to when a species’ traits that are typically associated with juvenile stages of development are carried into adulthood. A common example is the Mexican salamander, or axolotl . At full maturity, the axolotl continues...
February 18, 2014 Newsy / Powered by NewsLook.com A state lawmaker has proposed a bill allowing parents, caregivers and teachers to strike a child up to 10 times and leave bruising or redness. Video provided by Newsy ...
Why will the men who beat Giants fan Bryan Stow into a coma face shorter sentences for their assault than for illegally possessing guns? CONOR FRIEDERSDORF FEB 21 2014, 7:39 AM ET ………Most sound reforms would make the...
My Feb. 7 post “Love Theory” introduced “General Theory of Love” (GTL), a great book on the three-part or “triune” brain. Basic survival instincts are in the reptilian brain, mammalian emotions are in...
Outside report says there is little evidence to show they make much difference By Mark Thompson , TIME.com The Pentagon didn’t actually win the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq . Now a prestigious federal panel has concluded it’s...
We live in a world where so many of us don’t understand the facts versus the myths about sexual abuse of children, and the devastating emotional and financial effects it has on us and our country. Perhaps that is why it’s just easier to...
This is a PBS NewsHour segment on the successful use of “restorative justice” at Hinkley High School in Aurora, Colorado. It shows how the program works from the perspective of school administrators, students, parents,...
Here's the abstract from the full text of this important article by John Read , Roar Fosse , Andrew Moskowitz & Bruce Perry in Future Medicine : Evidence that childhood adversities are risk factors for psychosis has accumulated rapidly. Research into the mechanisms underlying these relationships has focused, productively, on psychological processes, including cognition, attachment and dissociation. In 2001, the traumagenic neurodevelopmental model sought to integrate...