ARTICLE

FindCenter AddIcon

The Polluted Brain

By Emily Underwood — 2017

Some of the health risks of inhaling fine and ultrafine particles are well-established, such as asthma, lung cancer, and, most recently, heart disease. But a growing body of evidence suggests that exposure can also harm the brain, accelerating cognitive aging, and may even increase risk of Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia.

Read on www.sciencemag.org

FindCenter Post-Image

Cultivating Empathy in My Children, from a Neuroscience Perspective

Empathy is divided into cognitive, emotional and applied empathy, all of which are valuable. For empathy to truly be useful to the human condition, our kids must have applied empathy, or compassion.

Article
Erin Clabough
2019
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

Coping with Sickness

When a parent, caregiver, or other loved one becomes ill with COVID-19 and is isolated, the whole family struggles. But there are ways to comfort and reassure children, to offer clear honest explanations, and to stay connected to the person who is sick.

Article
Sesame Street in Communities
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

How to Help Children Cope with a Sibling’s Chronic Illness

When a family member is diagnosed with a chronic illness, he or she is not the only person who has to deal with the diagnosis—the entire family is affected by it.

Article
Andrea M. Risi
2014
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

Helping Your Child Cope with a Chronically Ill Parent

In 1990, my mother wrote an article for the Journal of Contemporary Dialysis and Nephrology [1] instructing parents with chronic illness on how to help their children cope.

Article
Rebecca B. Skolnick
2018
FindCenter AddIcon

EXPLORE TOPIC

Dementia