The co-founders of Hip-Hop Psych, a new UK-based initiative tackling mental health issues through the music of hip-hop, have penned an article for Lancet Psychiatry assessing how mental health issues are addressed in the lyrics of rap...
For drug or alcohol abusers who get cleaned up, success builds on success. Those who successfully complete treatment programs do better the longer they manage to stay clean, a study cited by the Georgia Council on Substance Abuse found. About 4...
PINE RIDGE INDIAN RESERVATION, S.D. — A few days before Christmas, Santana Janis, a 12-year-old Lakota Indian, decided that she did not want to live anymore. A bright, outgoing girl with a shy smile and a passion for horseback riding,...
In two new studies, Harvard economist Raj Chetty and his colleagues found that where poor kids grow up has a huge effect on how much money they earn as adults. In one study, families living in public housing were randomly selected to be...
I can't help but have increasing concerns about what can be done "on the ground" with ACE study findings. There seems to be a growing cry in the trenches, "What does all of this mean? What can I or anyone else DO with this information?...
By David Shern and Andrea Blanch Nothing garners more public and policy attention to mental illness than mass shootings involving a shooter diagnosed with a mental illness. Unfortunately, the end result of this attention is almost always...
Lately it seems as though every few months there’s another urban riot and the nation turns its attention to urban poverty. And in the midst of every storm, there are people crying out that we should finally get serious about this issue. This...
The eruptions in Baltimore have been tied, in complex ways, to frustrations at American inequality, and a new measure of the economic gaps arrived earlier this year: It turns out that the Wall Street bonus pool in 2014 was roughly twice the...
TRANSCRIPT HARI SREENIVASAN: A survey published Friday showed that a large percentage of women soldiers who reported unwanted sexual advances said they faced retaliation. For more about this, we are joined from Washington by Tom Vanden...
Fostering Futures, a statewide collaborative aimed at building healthy lives and brighter futures through trauma-informed care, has recognized May 2015 as National Foster Care month by launching a new website, First Lady Tonette Walker...
Scientists from the Center for Brain Research at MedUni Vienna are investigating how anxiety is processed and the flow of information in the brain in general: In a study, which has now been published in the leading magazine Science, the team...
A three-story tree house hidden in the forest that he built by himself at the age of nine; reading about courageous stories of survival; and ultimately, music, saved Michael Skinner. Savagely abused, both sexually and physically, by both of his...
Negative life events such as abuse and homelessness can cause serious mental health problems, a panel of local professionals told an audience at Beloit Public Library recently. The Women’s Fund of the Stateline Community Foundation hosted the...
Young children with autism spectrum disorder, who also have serious behavioral problems, showed improved behavior when their parents were trained with specific, structured strategies to manage tantrums, aggression, self-injury, and...
In the Baltimore neighborhood of Sandtown, the infant mortality rate is more than than six times the national average, and life expectancy is more than a decade lower than in the rest of the country. And the health outlook is especially poor among...