"The researchers were amazed to find that events—particularly weight and socioeconomic status—up to the age of 17 years had a tremendous impact upon cancer development later in life. Adolescents who were overweight had a 2.1-fold increased...
Genetically modified humans. Yes, scientists and entrepreneurs are pushing for FDA approval of research that would create babies with 3 biologically-related parents. The genetic traits would be handed down from one generation to the next. While aimed...
Facebook and Maryland's school systems will pilot an initiative next year that should help make it easier to have offensive or hurtful language on the social media site taken down. Under the initiative, Facebook will help educate school systems on...
In an article titled "Attachment and Culture (citation below)," Heidi Keller exposes attachment theory's Western, middle-class assumptions. She argues: ... the definition of attachment in mainstream attachment research are in line with the conception...
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) provides a standard common language to classify mental disorders. The fifth revision of DSM (referred to as DSM-5, published in May 2013) includes changes to the diagnostic criteria for...
"The new study, published in Work and Occupations, sought to examine how gender empowerment impacts what the researchers call workers' nonwork-work and work-nonwork interference. Nonwork-work interference, Slate explained, occurs when family...
"The ramifications for children, and for our community, can be searing. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a study in 2010 backing up what many researchers had previously found: “Adverse childhood experiences ... have been...
A 15-year-old boy was arrested in Tennessee on suspicion of murder. His family could not afford the $500,000 bail, so he had to wait for his trial in prison. In solitary confinement. For about two years.... "Prison officials have free...
The End to Domestic Violence Lies in Our Own Hands Earlier this summer, I publically came forward as the third woman sexually assaulted by San Diego Mayor Bob Filner. At the time, he was a United States Congressman, and Chairman of the...
from Chapter 2 of "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/ After my divorce and the saga with...
"The Central Iowa ACEs Steering Committee, a public/private partnership, added questions to the 2012 Iowa Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) to understand and document ACEs in the Iowa population. The BRFSS is an annual state health...
"More punishment does not necessarily lead to less crime, say researchers at ETH Zurich who have been studying the origins of crime with a computer model. In order to fight crime, more attention should be paid to the social and economic backgrounds...
Abstract Objectives To determine whether depression and anxiety in adulthood are associated with abuse exposure in childhood. Methods A search of PUBMED, EMBASE and PSYCHINFO databases (2002–2012) was supplemented by hand searches of...
ACEsConnection members Dr. Robert Anda, Dr. Vincent Felitti, and Dr. Gary Giovino co-authored this 1999 paper. Abstract CONTEXT: In recent years, smoking among adolescents has increased and the decline of adult smoking has slowed to nearly a...
"Imagine suffering from a mental illness and waiting up to a decade to get a proper diagnosis, all the while taking the wrong medications. This is an unfortunate reality for some patients suffering from bipolar disorder (BD) and major depressive...