In domestic violence situations, our empathy and concern is usually for the adult victim. However, if children are part of that tangled, distorted relationship, we may forget that they are victims, too. Or, as I liked to call them in my...
For people with depressed mood, memory and concentration difficulties are often a day-to-day reality, greatly affecting job performance and personal relationships. While those with the disorder report that these cognitive problems are some of the most...
An analysis of the genomes and epigenomes of lean and obese mice and humans has turned up a wealth of clues about how genes and the environment conspire to trigger diabetes, Johns Hopkins researchers say. Their findings reveal that...
In 2005, Steve Cole began to peer inside the cells of lonely people, training his sights on the activity of their genomes. Cole, a psychologist turned molecular biologist at the University of California, Los Angeles, was interested in how...
One morning in September, Lissette Castrillón, a caseworker in Providence, Rhode Island, drove to an apartment on the western edge of town to visit Annie Rodriguez, a young mother, and her two-year-old daughter, Eilen. Castrillón...
The Judge Rotenberg Center, a Boston-area school for kids with severe developmental disabilities and behavior disorders, has earned national notoriety for a long record of brutal techniques to keep children in line. Electric shocks. Restraints....
During Daisy Montes Cabrera’s final week of her first quarter at UC Davis, her father, who was terminally ill, died. Cabrera, a first-generation college student, wanted to leave Davis to be closer to her family in San Jose. But her high...
When she was a young girl, Joan Ayala says she was sexually and physically abused by a family member, usually in his basement while her grandmother slept upstairs. Her family was no help, ripped apart as they were by alcoholism and mental...
The little square book arrived in a FedEx box, buried in packing peanuts. A dedication appears on the first page: “For Aina,” followed by powerful black-and-white photographs telling her story and the stories of five other young...
The death of transgender 17-year-old Leelah Alcorn has started a national conversation about the issues faced by trans youth. Alcorn left behind a suicide note referencing her parents' refusal to accept her identity, saying, "The only way I will rest...
Betsy came to Dr. Martin for a second — or rather, a sixth — opinion. Over a year, she had seen five other physicians for a “rapid heartbeat” and “feeling stressed.” After extensive testing, she had finally...
Robert Raben, founder of an influential public relations and government affairs firm known as The Raben Group, recalled the moment about a year ago that kicked his personal commitment to expand diversity within the environmental movement into...
Living on the cold streets of Seattle—decades after a war left his body 70 percent disabled—John would have never thought of himself as a role model. He wasn’t just an alcoholic. He was the type who was so committed that...
If you’re trying to get back to Europe after fighting in Syria, it helps if you’re headed to Aarhus. In this lively Danish port town west of Copenhagen, authorities are giving its citizens-turned-foreign-militants a second chance....
"This is an interview with Dena Samuels, who I met through the social justice work she has been doing as an educator and activist for about 15 years. Her new book on the topic is called The Culturally Inclusive Educator: Preparing for a...