I’m healthy as a horse, but a body part was bugging me, so at my annual check up I asked to see a specialist. I love my family doc, er I mean “primary care,” and I love this specialist. They’re the best there...
Federal investigators have faulted two Virginia schools for pinning down and isolating disabled students improperly, saying the schools used the practices routinely as a “one-size fits all” response to disruptive behavior despite evidence...
On Tuesday, 25-year-old Kajieme Powell was shot by St. Louis police responding to a call that he had stolen two canned energy drinks and a packet of pastries from a local convenience store. As a video of the incident reveals, Powell had been stalking...
About a decade ago, Kris Kalberer left her job as a retail manager to raise her kids and care for her elderly mother. For a while, the family did well on her husband's income. Then he lost his job. Their finances spiraled out of control. They lost...
My mother was a woman hollowed out like a tree struck by lightning. I wanted to know why. Ever since her first suicide attempt, in 1978, when I was 22, I had been trying to fill in gaps. She was gone much of the time in my early childhood, and when...
Since last fall, a Coordinated School Health team has been working with community partners at Growing Hope to rewrite the Ypsilanti Community Schools’ Wellness Policy. After almost a year in development, the policy is expected to be approved...
“We are trying to keep things as normal as we can,” she said. The children “know what is going on, but they don’t understand the severity of what happens when you are in a riot.” Amanda Bequette, a social psychologist at...
“Listen to me,” “Listen to me,” “Listen to me.” This plea—urgent in some cases, playful in others—bounces around the room in English, Arabic and Hebrew as groups of twelve-year-olds from around the world...
There’s reason to believe that a seven-day week with a two-day weekend is an inefficient technology: a growing body of research and corporate case studies suggests that a transition to a shorter workweek would lead to increased productivity,...
The jails aren't overflowing in San Antonio anymore. People with serious mental illnesses have a place to go for treatment and the city has saved $10 million a year on. How did it happen? "You know Brad Pitt in the movie Moneyball?" asks Gilbert...
On Tuesday, I posted syllabi for the two undergraduate anthropology classes I will teach this fall: Evolutionary Perspectives on Gender and Primate Behavior. As the academic year at my college nears its start, I can't help but reflect on the extra...
Back in June, Seattle resident Oscar Perez Giron committed the most minor of crimes, and ended up dead. When fare enforcement officers approached 23-year-old Giron and his two companions on the light rail and asked for proof of fare payment,...
Prisons are filled with people facing mental health challenges, struggles with addiction, a history of trauma, or memories of childhood abuse. The rate of such challenges among prisoners is much higher than in the general population, providing strong...
This 5-minute video, narrated by NCJFCJ President Judge Peggy Walker, depicts a call to action for the legal community to learn as much as possible about brain science to make sure our law and policy are aligned with the focus on the latest...
One of Dawn Schneider’s sons was diagnosed with depression, anxiety, and suicidal ideation by the time he was four years old. When he reached the age of eight, his condition worsened until its impact created a full-blown family crisis. Even now,...