The gap between white and Mexican-American children in cognitive skills such as oral language is apparent at age 2, according to a recent study from UC Berkeley. The gap is largest between white children and the children of immigrant parents,...
A group of psychiatrists and social workers formerly employed at an Australian offshore immigration detention center publicly accused the government on Tuesday of failing to act over systemic child sexual abuse at the controversial facility. More than...
Less than 20 years ago, Vince Felitti, MD, and Rob Anda, MD, published the results of research that showed proof of a strong relationship between painful things that can happen in childhood – adverse childhood experiences, or ACEs - and...
I doubt anyone would disagree that we need to make headway in reducing illegal drug use in this country. We know the toll that illegal drug use takes on families, on communities, on our state and on our economy. What do we know, though, about...
Over the past 10 months in these Editor’s Pages, I have often encouraged my cardiologist colleagues to observe our responsibilities as teachers, leaders, and caregivers. However, in this Editor’s Page, I turn my attention to different...
http://www2.aap.org/commpeds/cpti/opportunities.htm COMMUNITY-PEDIATRIC PARTNERSHIPS FOR CHILD WELL-BEING GRANTS Applications due 2:00pm Central, April 21, 2015. CPTI will support 3 projects partnering pediatric faculty residency programs...
Eighteen months ago, Shots first told readers about tumor paint, an experimental substance derived from scorpion venom. Inject tumor paint into a patient's vein, and it will actually cross the blood-brain barrier and find its way to a brain...
A new study by UNC researchers, based on MRI brain scans of 152 infants, found disruptions in functional connectivity within part of the amygdala-prefrontal network - a pathway thought to play an important role in arousal regulation. To our...
Orange Is the New Black, the popular Netflix show based on the memoir by Piper Kerman, brought female prisons into America’s living room, highlighting several issues that are plaguing the correctional system. While the show exaggerates...
Detention for truancy used to mean sitting in a classroom after school while your friends went out to play. In West Virginia, especially for the past five years, detention for unexcused absences has too often meant something else entirely:...
One of the most important distinctions in all of psychiatry is often also the most difficult to make- is the patient's depression part of a bipolar or a unipolar course of mood disorder . This is so...
In a new Sesame Street book, “In My Family,” Jada, a little girl, goes to Family Fun Night at her school. Her friends come with their moms and dads, but Jada comes with her Uncle George. “I want to have fun, but I miss my...
It’s been two and a half decades of helping women recover from addiction, but Barbara Schindler is just getting started. Schindler, MD, a professor in Drexel College of Medicine’s departments of Psychiatry and Pediatrics, helped...
Jimmy Kimmel's "Celebrities reading mean tweets" is one of his funniest and most parodied segments. But when a Canadian charity asked local homeless folks to read what people had to say about homelessness on Twitter, the result wasn't funny at all....
Instances of bullying decreased by 20 percent among students with disabilities after they participated in a social and emotional learning program, according to a new three-year study led by a researcher at the University of Illinois at...