Credit: Kate McLaughlin, University of Washington "The area of the brain that plays a primary role in emotional learning and the acquisition of fear – the amygdala – may hold the key to who is most vulnerable to post-traumatic stress...
In the beginning… Every religious philosophy has a story about origins and beginnings. In Eastern religions that hold to reincarnation, the cycle of birth-death-rebirth seems to stretch on to eternity in either direction. The key to...
Riverside County wants to start over at a place where many a wayward youth started over. County officials plan to spend up to $32.9 million – $24.69 million coming from Sacramento – to tear down and rebuild the Van Horn Youth Treatment and...
French economist Thomas Piketty sparked a global debate on inequality by arguing that the wealthy pull ahead by reaping disparate rewards from financial capital. He may be missing the human half of the story. When defining capital, Piketty...
A team of University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers has shown that chronic stress of poverty, neglect and physical abuse in early life may shrink the parts of a child’s developing brain responsible for memory, learning and processing emotion....
Research shows that when a combat veteran with PTSD returns home, it can have consequences on a child's personality Mark Trepanier spends likes to spend time with the chickens he keeps in the back yard. “It’s a barometer for my stress...
"Children with developmental disabilities are at higher risk for abuse and neglect from parents than children developing at a typical rate. So far, there was little evidence of specific parental behaviors that were associated with the risk, but a SLU...
"L ow-income mothers and their first-born children who received home visits from nurses were less likely to die from preventable causes during a two-decade period studied by a University of Colorado School of Medicine professor, according to a report...
Do many health and human service workers have adverse childhood experiences (ACEs ) in their background? How does that affect their work? Those questions arose after the Sonoma County (CA) Department of Health Services hosted several presentations...
London — This is normally a languid time of year in Westminster, with Parliament winding down for the long summer holiday. But this season, it has been anything but. Last week saw the British government announce a pair of...
One state has found a way to significantly reduce teen pregnancy rates. But is its solution realistic for the rest of the United States? Colorado's teen birth rate dropped 40 percent between 2009 and 2013, the Colorado Department of Public Health and...
As common as traumatic experiences may be, there is far too little education right now on the best ways to help families work through them. Nelba Márquez-Greene is a licensed marriage and family therapist who has spent her life helping others....
Although contemporary socio-cultural changes dramatically increased fathers' involvement in childrearing, little is known about the brain basis of human fatherhood, its comparability with the maternal brain, and its sensitivity to caregiving...
People develop differently. As infants, we study action and reaction. As children, we embrace a set of morals, attitudes and beliefs. Parents, relatives, and environments teach us various lessons, which create expectations for life. Our world view is...
CRISTIAN OMAR REYES, an 11-year-old sixth grader in the neighborhood of Nueva Suyapa, on the outskirts of Tegucigalpa, tells me he has to get out of Honduras soon — “no matter what.” In March, his father was robbed and murdered by...