June 1st, 2013
By Rivkela Brodsky
Abused girls who go on to become mothers are more likely to have children with autism, suggests a new study by researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health.
And...
June 1st, 2013
By Greg Hitchcock
A Swedish study links a child’s autism to his/her grandfather’s age at the time their grandchildren were born.
The research conducted by Avi Reichenberg, Ph.D. and...
June 1st, 2013
By Catherine Robertson Souter
In 2010, the Kaiser Foundation reported that children spend more than seven hours each day with entertainment media, including time on a computer at home or at school, playing...
June 1st, 2013
By Paul Efthim PhD
“Body Shots: Hollywood and the Culture of Eating Disorders”
By Emily Fox-Kales
State University of New York Press
Albany, N.Y., 2011
Media...
June 1st, 2013
By James K Luiselli EdD ABPP BCBA-D
“The Science of Attorney Advocacy: How Courtroom Behavior Affects Jury Decision Making”
By Jessica D. Findley and Bruce D. Sales
American Psychological...
June 1st, 2013
By Alan Bodnar Ph.D.
I learned about the marathon bombings somewhere on the New Jersey Turnpike when our daughter, who lives and works in Boston, called to say that she was safe. It was an odd way...
May 1st, 2013
By Phyllis Hanlon
The Institute of Medicine (IOM) reports that approximately 5.6 to 8 million Americans 65 and older have mental health or substance use disorders; those figures are expected to...
May 1st, 2013
By Pamela Berard
After initial controversy, the practice of prohibiting smoking in inpatient psychiatric facilities has taken hold.
In decades past, many considered smoking one of the...
May 1st, 2013
By Janine Weisman
The patient brought to Cape Cod Hospital’s Emergency Center in Feb. 2011 with self-inflicted left wrist lacerations denied being suicidal. But after sutures and a behavioral...
May 1st, 2013
By Phyllis Hanlon
On March 1, the deadlocked debate on the economic future of the country resulted in approximately $85.4 billion in federal spending cuts. Known as the sequester, the funding...
