A growing body of research demonstrates that individuals diagnosed with major depressive disorder (MDD) are characterized by shortened telomere length, which has been posited to underlie the association between depression and increased instances of...
Money problems, a heavy work load, caregiving — such increasingly common pressures have helped make stress a part of modern American life. According to APA’s Stress in America survey, 42 percent of adults in the United States. say their...
I recently learned of two traumatic events — both are connected to juvenile court but not to each other. I share both as further evidence of the need for best practices to take hold in our juvenile system. Because I do not have first-hand...
Psychologists are helping black boys capitalize on their strengths, in part by giving them strategies to recognize and respond to racism. The shooting death of Michael Brown in August was the latest in what’s become an...
Census data released last week revealed a sobering truth about the conditions that face children growing up in Cleveland: more than half of the city's kids—54 percent-- live in poverty, the second highest rate of any big city nationally....
A new survey of early childhood education teachers shows that mindfulness is linked with alleviating lasting physical and emotional effects of childhood adversity. The findings are especially important because adults who were abused or...
Having few friends, family and a general lack of social support is associated with poor health and quality of life and depression in young men and women a year after having a heart attack, according to new research in the Journal of the American Heart...
A virtual ward, a new model of care that provides support to high-risk and complex patients in the community for a few weeks after discharge from hospital, did not prevent hospital readmissions as hoped in a clinical trial in Toronto. Hospital...
Teenagers who have experienced a traumatic brain injury are much more likely to engage in a wide range of risky behaviors, Canadian researchers report. Both boys and girls were more likely to smoke, use drugs, drink alcohol and get poor...
ACEs Connection member Christopher Anderson who was profiled on this site was mentioned today on NPR’s program All Things Considered in the story Campus Sexual Assault Law Now Includes Language on Same-Sex Violence . Here is...
Major depression is one of the most common mental disorders here in the U.S. And the primary way doctors diagnose patients with depression is by interviewing them. But scientists at Northwestern University this past week announced they had...
A study by San Diego State University psychology professor Jean M. Twenge shows Americans are more depressed now than they have been in decades. Analyzing data from 6.9 million adolescents and adults from all over the country, Twenge found that...
The Obama administration plans to announce Tuesday that it has recruited new federal agencies and a number of universities, foundations and businesses to help pursue the goals of the Brain Initiative, which the president started in 2013. Tom...
Working long hours may increase the risk for Type 2 diabetes, a new review has found, but the risk is apparent only in workers of lower socioeconomic status. Long working hours are associated with diabetes risk factors — work...
For the first time in nearly 20 years, total spending on child welfare in the U.S. has declined. A new Child Trends study, Federal, State, and Local Spending to Address Child Abuse and Neglect in SFY 2012, summarizes key findings from a...