When we hear that someone succumbed to peer pressure or conformed to group expectations, we are inclined to think about it in negative terms. We imagine a young person smoking his first cigarette or an adult parroting the consensus of her community....
The left images show the brain during concentrative meditation, while images to the right show the brain during nondirective meditation. Credit: Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Meditation is more than just a way to calm our...
Photo credit: Doug Dubois, GQ This engaging article raises many questions about the role of a trauma-informed approach in healing and helping traumatized families and communities. Three years ago, Camden ranked as one of the poorest cities...
Photo Source: WikiMedia Commons Providing patient-centered care consistently in clinical practice requires practitioners who are able to recognize that different clinical situations require different approaches and are skilled enough to adapt....
Photo Source: WikiMedia Commons New findings published by researchers at the New York University Polytechnic School of Engineering are helping to unravel the complex interplay between alcohol and social behavior and may lead to new therapies for...
Photo Source: WikiMedia Commons Across the United States, urban leaders are implementing a powerful idea: To compete, they need play. In order to attract and retain the businesses, jobs and residents who breathe energy and enterprise into their...
We're often told to "forgive and forget" the wrongs that we suffer -- it turns out that there may be some scientific truth behind the common saying. A study from researchers at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland shows that the details of a...
Forgiving ourselves for hurting another is easier if we first make amends -- thus giving our inner selves a "moral OK," according to Baylor University psychology researchers. The research, published in The Journal of Positive Psychology,...
Cycling through Oxnard, CA, I got my second flat. Luckily for me it was just as I was approaching A Street in downtown Oxnard where the town square is located. Across the plaza, I spotted a Starbucks and walked my bike over. Parking the bike at an...
Domestic violence affects a third of women worldwide, according to the World Health Organization. In many cases nobody knows of the suffering, and victims aren't able to get help in time. That's why in many countries, including the U.S., there's been...
If you tell your doctor you'd like to stop drinking, odds are he's not going to give you a pill. That's too bad, a study says, because there are medications that can help people with drinking problems get off the sauce. And they're not going to make...
Photo Source: WikiMedia Commons Many schools in England are neglecting -- and may be actively harming -- students' health and wellbeing, warn experts in an editorial published on bmj.com today. Professor Chris Bonell at the Institute...
School is out on a Wednesday and the dean of students' office at Facing History High School is full, but these kids aren't here for detention. Dean Courtney Robinson, who has thick arms covered with tattoos and hair pulled back into a braided bun,...
Depression is the top global cause of illness and disability for adolescents, with suicide the third-biggest cause of death, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday. The finding is in a new report by the UN agency, which has pulled together a...
Which will it be — the berries or the chocolate dessert? Homework or the Xbox? Finish that memo, or roam Facebook? Such quotidian decisions test a mental ability called cognitive control, the capacity to maintain focus on an important choice...