During the period of childhood and adolescence, brain function, working memory and attention performance all rapidly improve, suggesting that this is a crucial time for developing brain networks. To study how prenatal alcohol exposure may alter this...
When parents act warmly and responsively toward young children who exhibit antisocial behavior, the children begin acting more warmly too. That’s according to a new study in the Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, in which...
Children diagnosed with depression as preschoolers are likely to suffer from depression as school-age children and young adolescents, new research shows. Depressed preschoolers were 2.5 times more likely to suffer from the condition in elementary and...
“My son has been suspended five times. He’s 3,” headlined one mother’s recent article in the Washington Post that helped kindle the conversation of school suspension rates in the American education system. Gloria...
In August 1988, Jasmine, 16, was two years into gang life in Compton when she shot down another girl. She was sentenced to life in prison and placed with hardened adults at the California Institute for Women. For a few harrowing days, she even ended...
New research has found that people who grew up in a household where a member was incarcerated have an 18 percent greater risk of experiencing poor health as adults. The study, from researchers at Brown University, suggests that the nation’s high...
Children who are vulnerable to abuse could be better protected if procedures for reporting child harm were more standardised across states and territories, and took into account hospital admissions, a study released on Monday says. Variation in...
This time of year, students and parents begin to prepare for the upcoming school year. For students living in poverty, the ability to succeed can be hindered by stress from their home life, a new study suggests. United Way of Central Ohio released a...
As we’ve learned over the past several months, universities’ current practices don’t give students much hope of recourse if they are sexually assaulted. But a bipartisan group of US senators unveiled the Campus Safety and...
Keauna Wise knows death could come at any moment. So she waits with knots in her stomach and tears in her eyes. She’s often breathless, with anxiety that climbs from the bottom of her feet up into her gut. Death comes often in her neighborhood...
Hassan al-Zeyada has spent decades counseling fellow residents of the Gaza Strip who suffer from psychological trauma. Now, as he prepares to aid his neighbors after a new round of combat and carnage, he has a challenging new patient: himself. An...
Earlier this month, a mother in North Augusta, S.C., was arrested after authorities learned that she had dropped her 9-year-old daughter off at a nearby park while she worked her shift at a McDonald’s restaurant. That news, along with a flurry...
In response to the media's coverage of crime in their neighborhood, a group of students wrote an op-ed for The Chicago Tribune. NPR's Scott Simon talks with two of those students and their teacher. [This interview can be found at http://www.npr.org/2014/08/02/...dia-you-dont-know-us ] [The original op-ed can be found at http://www.chicagotribune.com/...-20140725-story.html ]
The tiny addition of a chemical mark atop a gene that is well known for its involvement in clinical depression and posttraumatic stress disorder can affect the way a person's brain responds to threats, according to a new study by Duke University...
She likes pink, will dance to Blurred Lines, occasionally fakes an orgasm… and worries that the sisterhood would not approve. America's brightest new essayist talks about the dark side of her fierce, funny writing. Twenty years ago, when...