Gender Issues Behind Bars: Insights for a Sustainable Wellbeing Plan

FATHERS BEHIND BARS: THE IMPACT OF INCARCERATION ON FAMILY FORMATION Center for Research on Child Wellbeing

Behind bars: personality disorders.

Individuals with severe, function-impairing personality disorders comprise a large proportion of the difficult-to-manage inmates. Personality disorders are reliably diagnosable using standardized criteria (DSM-IV), and treatment options are now available. Through careful assessment, differential diagnosis, and differential therapeutic selection, clinicians have the opportunity to help these ind...

Psychiatry behind bars.

The pressing need for psychiatric services within the nation's jails and prisons is well documented. A study sponsored by the American Medical Association in 1973 reported that only 13 percent of the nation's jails had psychiatric services for mentally ill inmates. I This lack is even more disturbing when psychiatric morbidity rates of jailed persons is noted. Rates vary, depending on the natur...

Membrane Biology: Fission behind BARs

Membrane bending is accomplished in part by amphipathic helix insertion into the bilayer and the assembly of BAR domain scaffolds preparing the membrane for fission. Two recent studies highlight the roles of amphipathic helices and BAR scaffolds in membrane fission and establish the structural basis of membrane bending by the N-BAR protein endophilin.

Empowering Cities for Sustainable Wellbeing

Quality of life in cities can be improved through reshaping and advancing urban spaces with seamless persuasive and socially influencing strategies for empowering people to succeed in achieving better lifestyles. This vision aims at helping people to acquire healthy and resource-efficient everyday routines, thus leading to prosperous and sustainable societies. Urban engineers and technology dev...