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Anxiety linked to higher long-term risk of stroke
The study is the first in which researchers linked anxiety and stroke independent of other factors such as depression. Anxiety disorders are one of the most prevalent mental health problems. Symptoms include feeling unusually worried, stressed,...
One in six fathers doesn't live with his kids: CDC
Not surprisingly, fathers who lived with their kids were more likely to take them to activities than those who didn't: 21 percent compared to 4 percent. Thirty percent of dads living with kids checked homework daily versus 6 percent of...
New Ways to Promote Fitness for Urban Girls
Access is another theme that emerged from Thompson's study. She [Wanda Thompson, an assistant professor at the Rutgers School of Nursing-Camden] says, "In urban areas or low economic neighborhoods where there is little to no access to gyms, recreation centers, or parks, children are less likely to get the physical activity they need. You have to start looking at access and providing a safe, supportive environment where children could go and get their exercise," she notes. Thompson...
Overcoming anxiety for the holidays
"Holiday anxiety is similar to holiday depression," says Cal Adler, MD, professor of psychiatry and behavioral neuroscience at the University of Cincinnati and co-director of the Mood Disorders Center at the UC Neuroscience Institute, one of four...
Chronic Illness, Disability Mean Medicare Access Problems
Those with higher rates of problems accessing routine care "include beneficiaries with no supplemental insurance or Medicaid, beneficiaries under age 65 living with a permanent disability, beneficiaries in fair and poor health, beneficiaries with four...
The boy whose brain could unlock autism
Health reporter Maia Szalavitz wrote this long feature about Henry and Kamila Markram's "intense world" theory of autism. The behavior that results is not due to cognitive deficits—the prevailing view in autism research circles today—but...
Can We Disrupt Poverty by Changing How Poor Parents Talk to Their Kids?
By the time poor children are 3, researchers believe they have heard on average about 30 million fewer words than children the same age from better-off families, setting back their vocabulary, cognitive development, and future reading skills before...
We Don't Know Nearly As Much About the Link Between Public Health and Urban Planning As We Think We Do
In the mid-1800s, how we lived had a lot to do with how we caught disease. That's when we first discovered the connection between overcrowded, unsanitary housing and the spread of cholera, tuberculosis, and yellow fever. Back then, the fields of...
Survival Instinct
Chapter 3 ending - and my last free public excerpt - from "Don’t Try This at Home-The Silent Epidemic of Attachment Disorder- How I accidentally regressed myself back to infancy and healed it all" at AttachmentDisorderHealing.com/book/ Last...
Bench card for trauma-informed judges
A reminder: The National Child Traumatic Stress Network's Justice Consortium and the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges published the NCTSN Bench Card for the Trauma-Informed Judge. The project actually comprises two bench cards...
Creating Secondary Traumatic Stress-Informed Organizations
This is the second part of a three-part series that's being published in the National Child Traumatic Stress Network quarterly newsletter IMPACT. Part One of this series on STS (see IMPACT Summer 2013) emphasized the essential...
Mental health reform gets lost in one room, draws a crowd in another
A room that could fit more than 60 reporters sat a mere handful as members of Congress talked about a touchy subject -- mental health care. Rep. Tim Murphy, PhD (R-Pa.) , a clinical psychologist and leading voice on mental health reform in Congress,...
Adverse childhood experiences and the cardiovascular health of children: a cross-sectional study
In a study of more than 1,000 students in grades six to eight, researchers in Canada looked for the relationship between ACEs and early childhood risk factors for adult cardiovascular disease. They found that an: accumulation of 4 or more ACEs...