Serenity, a domestic violence shelter in this small rural Arkansas community of 12,000, is moving to a new facility. And for the first time in its 25-year history it will hang a sign out front. Serenity is one of approximately 1,700 domestic violence...
A new study correlating brain activity with how people make decisions suggests that when individuals engage in risky behavior, such as drunk driving or unsafe sex, it's probably not because their brains' desire systems are too active, but because...
Government initiatives to improve access to healthy foods may have a limited impact on obesity in the US, according to new research by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and Penn State University. Disadvantaged neighbourhoods often lack access to low-cost healthy foods, which has led to recent US policy initiatives that focus on increasing the number of local supermarkets through grants and loans. These programmes include the $400 million Healthy Food Financing Initiative,...
Pierre Rouzier, a medical doctor from Amherst, was as prepared as anyone could be for responding to the carnage that unfolded in April 2013 when two bombs were detonated at the Boston Marathon. What he wasn’t quite prepared for was the...
The researchers recruited 69 mothers and their 12- to 14-month-old infants to participate in the study. Researchers attached cardiovascular sensors to both mother and infant and took baseline recordings from each. After settling in, mother and infant...
In the study, 497 primary caregivers of 2½- to 3½-year-old children completed a widely used questionnaire to determine adult attachment, answering 32 questions about the nature of their close relationships. They also rated themselves on...
An international team of researchers reviewed more than 120 reports on the biological mechanisms underlying the relationship between childhood trauma and psychosis. They concluded that people experiencing psychosis should be offered...
This press release was issued by Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker on Friday. Elizabeth, who is a member of ACEsConnection, began her job today. Congratulations, Elizabeth! Governor Scott Walker announced today that he has appointed Elizabeth Hudson to be...
Susan Broderick, assistant research professor at Georgetown University’s Center for Juvenile Justice Reform, wrote this for Juvenile Justice Information Exchange: For the past several years, researchers and practitioners around the country have...
I'm sure everyone here is just crazy busy, as I feel often that I am. But, I'm going to ask anyway...I am looking for one or two volunteers who are well versed in basic parenting skills, ACEs Prevention, and/or Parent/Infant Bonding and...
Hotlinks to websites: http://ACEsTooHigh.com/got-your-ace-score http://www.ReachingInReachingOut.com
Ilana Yurkiewicz , third-year student at Harvard Medical School and a blogger for Scientific American, wrote this well-researched and well-written article for Aeon Magazine. It address individuals who are bullies and the hospital system that...
Based on her ethnographic study of psychiatric residency programs, anthropologist T.M. Luhrmann concluded psychiatry is “of two minds”: one “mind” emphasizes the role of neurochemistry, while the other...
January 28, 2014 [This is reposted from a comment I left on the ACEs in Foster Care group.] My Dear Colleague Jeff Bergstrom: This note is sent in reaction to your experience in the restaurant, regarding foster care. The interaction you had in June 2013 was fascinating, scary and probably an honest summary of some of the mis-information and the biased thinking that dominates segments of this country. I have been told that it is difficult to reason someone out of...