Gus Walz stole the show Wednesday when his father, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, officially accepted the vice presidential nomination on the third night of the Democratic National Convention. The ...

The prognosis of SLD depends on several factors, like the age of diagnosis and comorbid conditions. Besides supportive environment in family and school helps these children overcome their deficits ...

Many years ago, Robert Rosenthal and Lenore Jacobson (1968) performed a fascinating experiment in elementary school classrooms. They led teachers to believe that a special test had revealed that ...

Comedian Chris Rock has been working through childhood trauma and other personal issues recently, he said in a new interview with the Hollywood Reporter.. Part of that includes a fair amount of ...

Diagnostic overshadowing between psychiatric and learning disability symptomology is a well-recognized phenomenon and can occur even with experienced mental health workers (Reiss S, 1983). Also known ...

A NON-verbal learning disorder (NLD) can impact a child’s ability to understand concepts and impact other areas of their development. But what are some of the other signs and symptoms parents should ...

In September of 1986, Maia Szalavitz was charged with felony possession – nearly 2.5 kilos – of cocaine and faced 15 years to life under New York’s unduly harsh Rockefeller drug laws. Before then, she ...

The narrative of addiction is familiar. A pleasure-seeking “addictive personality” spirals out of control, “enabled” by friends and family, and eventually hits “rock bottom” in the form of arrest, ...