The patient was dying and she knew it. In her mid-50s, she had been battling breast cancer for years, but it had spread to her bones, causing unrelenting pain that required hospitalization. Jeremy Force, a first-year oncology fellow at Duke...
This is the story of how Broody, a very unhappy brain, became very happy. Narrated by Dr. Amit Sood, Global Center for Resiliency and Wellbeing.
Dr. Vincent Felitti, father of the seminal Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) study that has informed so much of State of Opportunity’s reporting and recently this NPR series , was recently in Michigan for a...
“ During R EM sleep, the brain is attempting to process survival information until it’s resolved. ” Eye Motion Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a potent trauma treatment developed by Dr. Francine Shapiro (left), a...
By Andrea Blanch, Ph.D. and David Shern, Ph.D. It is becoming increasingly clear that toxic stress and trauma play an important role in the development of mental health and addictive disorders. We have recently explored some of the...
A father's depression during the first years of parenting - as well as a mother's - can put their toddler at risk of developing troubling behaviors such as hitting, lying, anxiety and sadness during a critical time of development, according to...
Depression affects about 350 million people worldwide and is the leading cause of disability. Mindfulness training is a promising approach to decreasing depressive symptoms. The success of an intensive mindfulness meditation program on reducing...
Seeking to quell criticism that his signature mental health initiative lacks accountability, former state Senate leader Darrell Steinberg pushed back Wednesday with a study he commissioned showing declines in homelessness, arrests and...
What does it mean to be happy? Is it how happy you say you are, or is it how happy you act? Previous research has found that political conservatives report being happier than political liberals. But UC Irvine psychologists have discovered that...
Hi, Everyone: Here's the press release for an ACE educational event an artist/professor/writer and I are doing this Sunday in Cambridge, MA. What wasn't said in the press release is we have suggestions for what high ACE scoring people...
Moms with pizza boxes and dads with McDonald’s bags filed into the quad at Harriet Eddy Middle School last week to eat lunch with their kids. Parent Lunch Day, held monthly at the Elk Grove school, is one innovative method that educators...
Sometimes I wonder what my son’s first year would have been like if he had been born in my native Germany. Or what my first year as a mother would have been like. As a German expat and mother of a one-year-old living in the U.S., I find...
In an obvious attempt to persuade the Supreme Court that the latest Obamacare lawsuit would not sow massive disruption, three Republican Senators recently wrote an op-ed headlined, “We have a plan for fixing health...
One in four people will experience a mental health problem at some point in their lives - and Laura Dernie is one of them. She says it is not something rare that only affects a certain kind of person – it can happen to anybody. The...
Ask people what it takes to live a long life, and they'll say things like exercise, take Omega-3s, and see your doctor regularly. Now research from Brigham Young University shows that loneliness and social isolation are just as much a threat to...