Stoneleigh Foundation program officer Diana Aubourg Millner says: “ We must dig deeper to understand the behaviors and stressors and do more along the lifespan and within the family and community contexts to prevent and treat trauma where we...
Two years ago, Christie Gomez left her family, friends and hometown to flee an abusive husband and move to a Kissimmee motel room with her three children. "Eventually he would have killed me," the 31-year-old said. "The anger-management...
New research out of UC San Francisco is the first to demonstrate that highly stressed people who eat a lot of high-fat, high-sugar food are more prone to health risks than low-stress people who eat the same amount of unhealthy food. "Chronic stresscan...
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A couple of weeks ago at an “Everyday Courage” event sponsored by the California Endowment I met a very caring and compassionate woman named Rosa Arevalo. Rosa works for CASA of Los Angeles a non-profit organization that recruits, trains,...
Abstract: Growing evidence suggests that adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) increase the risks for coronary heart disease and hypertension in mid and late adulthood. We previously reported that early life stress induces a hyperreactive...
A small study of people who experienced the devastating 2011 earthquake in Japan shows that although traumatic events can shrink parts of the brain, some of those regions can rebound once a person's self-esteem returns. "Higher self-esteem is one of...
Using data from a comprehensive health survey of more than 10,000 people aged 20—75 years living in the United States, the Deakin IMPACT Strategic Research Centre researchers found that poor dental health (as measured by the number of dental...
Vice President Biden said on Tuesday that the USA's colleges and universities have a moral responsibility to "step up" efforts to prevent sexual assault on campuses. Biden's remarks follow the White House Task Force to Prevent Students from Sexual...
...[University of Queensland's Queensland Brain Institute] senior research fellow Dr Timothy Bredy said the team had shed new light on the processes involved in loosening the grip of fear-related memories, particularly those implicated in conditions such as phobia and post-traumatic stress disorder . Dr Bredy said they had discovered a novel mechanism of gene regulation associated with fear extinction , an inhibitory learning process thought to be critical for controlling fear when the...
This TEDx talk is so powerful it was a TED Editors Pick for the week ... http://tedxtalks.ted.com/video/Expand-Expand-Expand-Brandon-P;Featured-Talks I will be going in to the prison on Monday and would love to share your thoughts and comments...
The controversial tools are used on emotionally disabled kids at a Mass. facility A U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory panel has recommended banning the use of "electrical stimulation devices" to modify aggressive or self-harming behavior in...
State Treasurer Bill Lockyer announced the approval Thursday of $75.3 million in grants that aim to stabilize residents with severe mental illness before they land in jail or suffer multiple hospitalizations. The 20 grants will go to 28 counties for...
By the time you read this, there's a good chance you will have seen articles in consumer media saying that high antidepressant doses in teens and young adults increase their risk of suicide. Watch out, it's not that simple. The study on which those...
School shootings, bullying make the headlines, but they're the exception, expert says Fewer American children have been exposed to violent acts such as assault, bullying, sexual victimization and emotional abuse since 2003, a new study finds. However,...