Monday night's NCAA men's basketball final will attract millions of viewers. One player on Duke's team — Sean Obi — hails from Nigeria. He's not the only African player who has enjoyed a successful hoops career in the U.S. The most famous...
Ten years after Hurricane Katrina, much has been rebuilt in New Orleans — including the public schools. But the current education system is radically different from the one that people who grew up in New Orleans remember. Virtually all students...
This week the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism issued its damning report about the journalistic lapses by Rolling Stone magazine when it published a salacious, and now-discredited, story about a supposed gang rape at a University of...
When the RYSE Center opened its doors in 2008 in Richmond, CA, says Kanwarpal Dhaliwal , community health director and a RYSE co-founder (and ACEsConnection member), staff members didn’t talk about complex trauma per se, but they...
The science of DNA revolutionized the understanding of crime and wrongful convictions. Now, to deal with the contagion of violence in cities and to build stronger relationships and trust between police and the people they serve, the training of...
Aerobic exercise might boost memory and thinking skills in people with schizophrenia, a small study finds. The research included 33 schizophrenia patients who were randomly assigned to receive one of two treatments. One group was given standard...
It is notoriously difficult for social scientists to study people who have recently left prison. They move often, don’t have stable phone numbers, rarely hold steady jobs, and often end up back behind bars. Large surveys like the U.S. census are...
The boy loved to walk in the woods. He savored the gurgle of the creek as the water tumbled over the rocks, the sweet melody of birdsong, the wind rustling the leaves in the trees that soared high overhead. It seems a faraway place to him now...
Do Alcoholics Anonymous participants do better at abstinence than nonparticipants because they are more motivated? Or is it because of something inherent in the A.A. program? How researchers answered these questions in a recent study offers...
How is it that a delightful child can turn overnight into a sullen, explosive, risk-taking adolescent? Jensen, a neurologist and mother of two sons, and Nutt, a Washington Post science writer, explore the biology of the teenage brain, in an...
“How are you feeling?” Those are the four deceptively simple words with which my colleagues and I regularly begin our meetings and our training sessions at other organizations. People ask the question to each other, one at a time....
When Tara Reilly was diagnosed with bipolar disorder at age 22, she didn’t think anyone else could relate. But last year, an online search brought Reilly, now 25, to a local chapter of a peer support group sponsored by the...
Equips providers with information and strategies for use in working with mothers who may be depressed. Includes facts about depression; screening tools for more serious depression; and referrals, resources, and handouts for mothers who are...
To borrow a catchphrase from Chazz Michael Michaels (actor Will Ferrell's egomaniac, substance-abusing, figure skating character), the increasing number of kids on psychiatric drug prescriptions is "Mind-Bottling", literally. "You know,...
Because April is National Child Abuse Prevention month, I thought I’d tell you a little about the work I do with Darkness to Light . Darkness to Light Stewards of Children is an organization dedicated to empowering people to...