I was glad to see this pop up on my radar.  This Thursday May 9th is National Children’s Mental Health Awareness Day.  With our 24/7 news   and social media feed these days it just seems as if there is a barrage of attention lately focused on escalating violence affecting children.  Traumatic events such as the Sandy ...

I think I have mentioned in passing my passion for reading about brain research. Lately I have been following some of the updates from the Greater Good Science Center out of the University of California Berkeley.  The GGSC's basic mission is to study the psychology, sociology, and neuroscience of well-being, and teach skills that foster a ...

I recently came across this Research Study ongoing here in Orlando at the University of Central Florida.  UCF's Anxiety Disorders Clinic has teamed up with Virtually Better, an Atlanta based interactive technology company to develop a computer simulation program that allows children to practice social skills in a safe environment through the ...