Photo credit: Douglas Palmer, Flickr Statistics show that the amount of older adults in the criminal justice system has quadrupled in the past 15 years. Many of the adults have histories of mental health problems and are being placed in...
An undated photo of Spc. Ivan Lopez. Lopez is suspected of fatally shooting three people before killing himself at the Fort Hood Army base in Texas on April 2, 2014. Credit: Puerto Rico National Guard via BBC . In the wake of a string of...
Dozens of mentally ill people die in run-ins with police every year. Last month, a homeless camper in Albuquerque, N.M., was killed in a shooting captured on an officer's helmet camera, sparking an FBI investigation and a protest that forced the city...
Eight-year-old Francis Csedrik pauses mid-swing in his backyard in Washington, D.C. Like most kids, he's gradually losing his memories of things that happened when he was 3 years old. Credit: Meg Vogel/NPR Scientists have known about...
Photo credit: Zhao!, Flickr New research has found that a child's relationships may be a hidden casualty long after a head injury. Neuroscientists at Brigham Young University studied a group of children three years after each had suffered a...
Final preparations for the inaugural Regional Academy on Violence and Abuse (AVA) on April 16 are being completed. More than 300 people have registered to attend this event, which is sponsored by the Academy on Violence and Abuse (AVA) and local...
Photo from http://www.medicinenet.com/rheumatoid_arthritis_pictures_slideshow/article.htm A history of parental addictions is associated with cumulative lifetime incidence of arthritis in adulthood, even after adjustment for...
Photo credit: http://www.setster.com/blog/stressed-out-get-control/ Stress is bad for us; decades of research have documented that. It contributes to many mental and physical health problems. But - a growing field of research explores another...
Ch ronic cigarette smoking has a high co-occurrence with alcohol use disorders, and roughly 60 to 90 percent of alcohol dependent (AD) individuals seeking treatment are chronic smokers. Postural instability is also common among AD individuals, because...
A father's age at the time of his daughter's birth may affect her risk for breast, ovarian and endometrial cancer in adulthood, a new study suggests. Researchers examined data from more than 133,000 women who took part in a study of California...
Many social situations can provoke anxiety. Be it a networking event for work or having unannounced guests, these kinds of interactions can cause even the most outgoing among us to feel unsettled. But do these feelings differ between the sexes? A...
Johns Hopkins researchers say they have confirmed suspicions that DNA modifications found in the blood of mice exposed to high levels of stress hormone—and showing signs of anxiety—are directly related to changes found in their brain...
An Alberta judge says child-welfare workers and foster parents need to have a better understanding of the stress babies in care face to prevent sudden, unexplained deaths. The recommendation is in a report into the death of a...
Mothers who experience significant stress while pregnant are more likely to have children with asthma, indicates research from the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment in Bilthoven. The findings could be particularly beneficial to...
Genes amplify the stress of harsh environments for some children, and magnify the advantage of supportive environments for other children, according to a study that's one of the first to document how genes interacting with social environments affect...