London — This is normally a languid time of year in Westminster, with Parliament winding down for the long summer holiday. But this season, it has been anything but. Last week saw the British government announce a pair of...
One state has found a way to significantly reduce teen pregnancy rates. But is its solution realistic for the rest of the United States? Colorado's teen birth rate dropped 40 percent between 2009 and 2013, the Colorado Department of Public Health and...
As common as traumatic experiences may be, there is far too little education right now on the best ways to help families work through them. Nelba Márquez-Greene is a licensed marriage and family therapist who has spent her life helping others....
Although contemporary socio-cultural changes dramatically increased fathers' involvement in childrearing, little is known about the brain basis of human fatherhood, its comparability with the maternal brain, and its sensitivity to caregiving...
People develop differently. As infants, we study action and reaction. As children, we embrace a set of morals, attitudes and beliefs. Parents, relatives, and environments teach us various lessons, which create expectations for life. Our world view is...
CRISTIAN OMAR REYES, an 11-year-old sixth grader in the neighborhood of Nueva Suyapa, on the outskirts of Tegucigalpa, tells me he has to get out of Honduras soon — “no matter what.” In March, his father was robbed and murdered by...
[Image: Lucinda Schreiber for NPR] ...But in new research, [ Sarah] Damaske argues that another factor might have been at play. It's a factor that sociologists such as Arlie Hochschild and psychiatrists such as Sigmund Freud have examined in the past. Hochschild, for one, found that many people find work to be less stressful than their home lives. Work was, in fact, a haven. Freud once said work and love were two wellsprings of emotional satisfaction in life. In a ...
Instead of cultural competencies, Helena Hansen , an assistant professor of psychiatry and anthropology at New York University, and a research psychiatrist at the Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, along with her colleague Jonathan...
[Adam Fagen/Flickr] New data from the U.S. Census Bureau offers encouraging news for cyclists: Nationally, bicycle commuting increased 61 percent between the 2000 Census and a 2008-2012 survey . But there's considerable work to do before we bike ride into the sunset. Our research shows that in some places, the people who ride are mostly wealthy and white. Take Washington, D.C., for example. American Community Survey data show that D.C. bicycle commuting increased an astounding 208 percent...
Heroin overdose deaths have surged in recent years. Now the Centers for Disease Control reports that the increase has occurred almost entirely among whites. This chart comes from a CDC report looking at fatal overdoses involving heroin during the...
Recent findings from two studies, including an 11-year study of 63,000 people in Norway, strengthen the evidence linking depression and heart disease. Researchers also found that patients who were physically inactive were more likely to experience...
A third of Alzheimer's disease cases worldwide can be attributed to risk factorss that can be potentially modified, such as lack of education and physical inactivity, according to NIHR-funded research published in The Lancet Neurology today. Current...
Researchers questioned study participants about the previous day's stressors before giving them a meal consisting of 930 calories and 60 grams of fat . The scientists then measured their metabolic rate – how long it took the women to burn...
Peering through the chain link of a holding pen at the Cook County Jail, a man wrapped in a navy varsity jacket leans toward clinical social worker Elli Petacque Montgomery, his bulging eyes a clue that something’s not right. “They say I...
[Photo: Jennifer S. Altman for the New York Times] Once consigned to Hollywood entourages to keep celebrities on the straight and narrow (and out of rehab), sobriety coaches, also known as sober companions and recovery therapists, are being hired by well-heeled mothers from the Upper East Side to the beachfront homes of Boca Raton, Fla. ...Jeanne, a remarried mother who shares custody of her 11-year-old daughter with her ex-husband, said that she never slurred her words at cocktail...