Eighteen months ago, Shots first told readers about tumor paint, an experimental substance derived from scorpion venom. Inject tumor paint into a patient's vein, and it will actually cross the blood-brain barrier and find its way to a brain...
A new study by UNC researchers, based on MRI brain scans of 152 infants, found disruptions in functional connectivity within part of the amygdala-prefrontal network - a pathway thought to play an important role in arousal regulation. To our...
Orange Is the New Black, the popular Netflix show based on the memoir by Piper Kerman, brought female prisons into America’s living room, highlighting several issues that are plaguing the correctional system. While the show exaggerates...
Detention for truancy used to mean sitting in a classroom after school while your friends went out to play. In West Virginia, especially for the past five years, detention for unexcused absences has too often meant something else entirely:...
One of the most important distinctions in all of psychiatry is often also the most difficult to make- is the patient's depression part of a bipolar or a unipolar course of mood disorder . This is so...
In a new Sesame Street book, “In My Family,” Jada, a little girl, goes to Family Fun Night at her school. Her friends come with their moms and dads, but Jada comes with her Uncle George. “I want to have fun, but I miss my...
It’s been two and a half decades of helping women recover from addiction, but Barbara Schindler is just getting started. Schindler, MD, a professor in Drexel College of Medicine’s departments of Psychiatry and Pediatrics, helped...
Jimmy Kimmel's "Celebrities reading mean tweets" is one of his funniest and most parodied segments. But when a Canadian charity asked local homeless folks to read what people had to say about homelessness on Twitter, the result wasn't funny at all....
Instances of bullying decreased by 20 percent among students with disabilities after they participated in a social and emotional learning program, according to a new three-year study led by a researcher at the University of Illinois at...
Everyone knows the best way to prevent tooth decay is by brushing and flossing every day. But not everyone – especially within the education community – recognizes the growing body of research that shows the best way to improve...
The teaching of yoga in Encinitas public schools does not represent an illegal attempt at religious indoctrination, an appeals court ruled Friday. A three-judge panel of the 4th District Court of Appeal upheld a decision by the San Diego...
The grin on Mayte Hernandez's face was almost as big as the one on her yellow smiley face T-shirt during an recent talent show and picnic that Emergence Health Network put on for people with an intellectual/developmental disability — or...
As a theatrical improviser, I’ve experienced workshops and shows where, after initial horseplay, people who hardly know each other share intimate autobiographical details, sometimes on a brightly lit stage. Where does this striking...
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...