July 1st, 2015
By Joseph Ricciardi
“Positive Neuropsychology: Evidence-Based Perspectives on Promoting Cognitive Health”
Edited by John Randolph
Springer
New York, N.Y.,...
July 1st, 2015
By Alan Bodnar Ph.D.
I find it hard to believe that it has been a full year since I wrote about “The Retirement Readiness Test,” a three-day weekend rehearsal of a retired psychologist’s...
June 1st, 2015
By Phyllis Hanlon
When American Airlines hired pilot Steve Churchill in 1985, the company gave him a self-questionnaire intended to screen out individuals with serious psychological problems....
June 1st, 2015
By Janine Weisman
There were 2,231 uninsured Mainers between 18 and 64 with a serious mental health disorder who could have accessed treatment services last year if the Pine Tree state had...
June 1st, 2015
By Pamela Berard
This spring, clinical psychologist Miriam E. Delphin-Rittmon, Ph.D., was named commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Mental Health & Addiction...
June 1st, 2015
By Howard Newman
There is a humanitarian side, as well as a practical aspect, to a new bill currently making its way through the Rhode Island legislature.
Introduced by Senate Committee...
June 1st, 2015
By Pamela Berard
Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo’s proposed FY 2016 budget would consolidate 25 non-prescribing health professional boards into a single regulation and licensing board –...
June 1st, 2015
By Rivkela Brodsky
Nationally it appears most children are being treated for ADHD by medication alone, according to a recent study by the Centers for Disease Control and...
June 1st, 2015
By Susan Gonsalves
Not all psychopaths are cold, callous and unfeeling. Nor are they untreatable.
A new study by University of Vermont Professor Timothy Stickle, Ph.D. and graduate student...
June 1st, 2015
By Catherine Robertson Souter
In October 2014, three American girls in suburban Colorado skipped school to jump on a plane for Turkey to join the militant terrorist group, Islamic State. Stopped in Germany...