Photo: Stanford doctor Vyjeyanthi “V.J.” Periyakoil, lead author of a new study on end-of-life care. (Richard Springer/India West) SAN FRANCISCO—A new study questions whether doctors providing end-of-life care are “prolonging...
The Roots of Empathy program, started decades ago in Canada by Mary Gordon, is expanding to the U.S. and other countries. A June 2, 2014 front-page article in The Washington Post features the program's implementation in some Washington, D.C.,...
The first time I rode across the country on a bicycle I was in my 20s and trying to figure things out. Upon my arrival at my mom and dad’s home in New Jersey, I was interviewed by the local paper and was quoted as saying, “I thought a lot...
Safe and supportive schools help mitigate the impact of ACEs. There is both good news and bad news. It's hard to imagine a starker good news/bad news scenario than the one spelled out in a new national study on bullying. First, the good: The...
This blog post by SAMHSA's Paolo del Vecchio provides a good overview of the department's prevention programs. The focus is on mental illness but much of what he says applies to the prevention of ACEs. There is truth in the old adage that “an...
A new study published in the journal NeuroImage: Clinical suggests that youths between the ages of 12 and 18 who have committed homicide have significantly different brain structures, compared with other teenage criminals who have not committed...
The senior author of this study, Dr. Kent Kiehl of The Mind Research Network in Albuquerque, New Mexico, commented on the findings: “As policymakers grapple with the high societal, human, and budgetary costs of violent crime and...
While ACEs occur in all income groups, some stressors such as community violence and food insecurity are acute for families living in poverty and contribute to ACEs. Nearly 800 Baltimore school children were followed in a ground-breaking study for a...
Has anyone read the article by Ian Parker in the June 2 New Yorker profiling Edward St. Aubyn, whose four so-called Melrose novels, the last one titled Mother's Milk , are based on his horrific childhood, starting with a father regularly...
Here are several excellent letters to the editor in response to the May 25 New York Times editorial “ End Mass Incarceration Now .” One letter points out a missing truth in the editorial---that many people in prisons today have...
Maternal depression places infants’ development at risk. Helping young parents reduce stress and find social supports will reduce ACEs. The authors looked at the impact of parenting stress and social support on depression among African American...
A new study finds a link between prenatal maternal stress and the development of symptoms of asthma and autism in children. Scientists have been studying women who were pregnant during the January 1998 Quebec ice storm since June of that year and...
The objective of this study was to measure the additional risk posed by ACE exposures on poor health outcomes among current smokers. .....A key finding of this study is that only among smokers with the High ACE group did the results show significant...
While the conditions described in Bangui, in the Central African Republic (CAR), are extreme, the multi-faceted approach to treatment---addressing the impact of physical and psychological conditions---applies to traumatized families here in the...
In a recent study, published in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry , PTSD patients allowed to choose between therapies ended up costing about $1,622 less on average per patient per year compared with patients who were assigned treatment. Among...