Stress is contagious. Observing another person in a stressful situation can be enough to make our own bodies release the stress hormone cortisol. This is the conclusion reached by scientists involved in a large-scale cooperation project between the...
Researchers at the MedUni Vienna have demonstrated the possibility of using a blood test to detect depression. While blood tests for mental illnesses have until recently been regarded as impossible, a recent study clearly indicates that, in principle,...
Working memory—the ability to hold information in your mind, think about it, and use it to guide behavior—develops through childhood and adolescence, and is key for successful performance at school and work. Previous research with young...
While at rest, multiple regions of the brain remain engaged in a highly heritable, stable pattern of activity called the default mode network. Researchers have found that this network is often disrupted in people with schizophrenia and...
Image: Washington Post What do you do, and what does your organization do? Marina works for Northwest Educational Service District 189, which serves five counties by providing teacher support, alternative schooling for youth, and prevention and...
Source: WikiMedia Commons Last month, it was reported that an Edmonton woman was badly beaten by her spouse. Though the attack put her in the hospital, the police offered a silver lining by stating that her unborn baby, at least, wasn't harmed....
I listened to her. She was young, an overnight worker in a congregate care facility. She was in anguish, her voice tight with pain, as she described seeing another worker taser a youth who was upset, and then high-five a co-worker and say...
It was a typical PTA meeting at my daughters' elementary school with talk of budgets, fundraisers and the upcoming school calendar, until a guest speaker stood up to talk, shattering the banality of the meeting with a story no parent wants to hear....
Image Source: Root When Yvonne Ford started teaching at P.S. 133, a public elementary school in Brooklyn, her classroom wasn’t an easy place to learn. Students with behavior problems struggled to remain on task. Teasing and name-calling...
About 25 percent of parents who have children aged two to five say their children get three or more hours of entertainment screen time a day, well beyond recommended limits, according to a new poll from the University of Michigan. n the latest...
Policy to reduce bullying in the schoolyard needs to span all levels of society, say researchers from the University of Warwick, who warn that socioeconomic status is not a reliable indicator of whether a child is likely to become a bully. Up to one...
Stoneleigh Foundation program officer Diana Aubourg Millner says: “ We must dig deeper to understand the behaviors and stressors and do more along the lifespan and within the family and community contexts to prevent and treat trauma where we...
Two years ago, Christie Gomez left her family, friends and hometown to flee an abusive husband and move to a Kissimmee motel room with her three children. "Eventually he would have killed me," the 31-year-old said. "The anger-management...
New research out of UC San Francisco is the first to demonstrate that highly stressed people who eat a lot of high-fat, high-sugar food are more prone to health risks than low-stress people who eat the same amount of unhealthy food. "Chronic stresscan...