I recently watched the Netflix documentary “Three Identical Strangers.” Without too much of a spoiler alert, triplets who were separated at birth come acros...

Outside of work, I am a very keen family historian. It fascinates me how people lived everyday lives in past millennia and how their choices, good and bad ...

I have long suggested that parenting does not belong solely to a parent. Parenting style is determined where the resources of a parent meet the needs of chi...

My first day back at work in 2020 was with a fantastic team of mental health housing workers. We had an extensive debate on the role of infectious diseases ...

I have recently had a series of debates with psychologists, social workers and family workers around the country regarding Attachment Theory. They are surpri...

Some people suffering from severe mental illness, particularly schizophrenia, hear "voices," known as auditory hallucinations. This symptom, which afflicts m...

When does childhood end? That's the question international researchers are asking as they chart age cut-offs for paediatric services around the world. Adoles...

This is a timely study after the end of the long summer holiday. In lectures I often discuss how parenting is bi-directional. Parenting style is determined...

Experiences such as poverty, residential instability, or parental divorce or substance abuse, also can lead to changes in a child's brain chemistry, muting t...

What really matters in caring for babies may be different than commonly thought, says Lehigh University researcher Susan S. Woodhouse, an expert on infant at...

A new Northwestern University study challenges prevailing understandings of genes as immutable features of biology that are fixed at conception. Previous re...

Ever intrigued by the concept of laughter as alliance and power, I was interested to read this recent study that showed babies can detect laughter between fr...

Humans are unusual in that women go through menopause and stop reproducing long before reaching the end of their life expectancy. This is surprisingly rare i...

Babies are not blank slates. They come with a lot of pre-programming that is awaiting activation. A great example of this is language. Newborn babies are ...

A major international collaboration headed by researchers from the Danish iPSYCH project, the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Massachusetts General Hospi...

Neighborhood violence has been associated with adverse health effects on youth, including sleep loss, asthma and metabolic syndrome. Yet some youth living in...

A large scale study has found that people with autism show higher male trait scores in systemic thinking over empathetic thinking, above with gender biases t...

Few things can delight an adult more easily than the uninhibited, effervescent laughter of a baby. Yet baby laughter, a new study shows, differs from adult l...

In previous blog entries I shared research that showed that children and young people who were exposed to childhood trauma demonstrated biological changes wi...

According to the World Health Organization, nearly 300 million people worldwide suffer from depression and these rates are on the rise. Yet, doctors and scie...