Previous research on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) has identified common physical and behavioural characteristics associated with children who were prenatally exposed to alcohol. The research suggests that many individuals with FASD have experienced involvement with the law, and engaged in inappropriate sexual behaviour. However, there would appear to be a scarcity of research that ide...

Child wellbeing in the USA is among the worst in the developed world. The American Academy of Childhood and Adolescent Psychiatry is now describing a “crisis” in children’s mental health: one in five children has a diagnosable psychiatric disorder and one in ten suffers from a mental illness severe enough to impair everyday life. A recent report found that all US citizens under age 50, regardle...

A capacity for self-regulated learning (SRL) has long been recognised as an important factor in successful studies. Although educational researchers have started to investigate the concept of SRL in the context of online education, very little is yet known about SRL in relation to massive open online courses (MOOCs) or of appropriate strategies to foster SRL skills in MOOC learners. Selfregulat...

Vitality, or the energy available to the self, is a salient and functionally significant indicator of health and motivation. Previous models (e.g., Baumeister & Vohs, 2007) have suggested how such energy can be depleted but have focused less on how it can be maintained or enhanced. In this article, we describe a model of energy and vitality based on self-determination theory (Ryan & Deci, 2000)...

Background Self-regulation, or the modification of driving by driving less or avoiding challenging situations in response to declining abilities, is increasingly being studied as a way to help older drivers maintain independence and extend the period over which they can safely drive. However, considerable research gaps remain with respect to whether older drivers can accurately adjust their dri...

Good health is of critical importance to many people while they are generally aware that their behavior plays an important role in achieving and maintaining physical well-being. In Western societies, it is difficult not knowing that one is, to some extent, responsible for one’s own health as people are continuously reminded of the importance of their behavior for staying healthy by both public ...

Background: Fascial or myofascial unwinding is a process in which a client undergoes a spontaneous reaction in response to the therapist’s touch. It can be induced by using specific techniques that encourage a client’s body to move into areas of ease. Unwinding is a popular technique in massage therapy, but its mechanism is not well understood. In the absence of a scientific explanation or hypo...

The most treasured and valued gift given by the public to the medical profession is that of self-regulation. However, the ability of professionals in many fields to self-regulate has come into question. Self-regulation of the medical profession by physicians is no exception and is currently under siege. Many different societal, professional, and regulatory forces have combined into what some ha...

n 2001, prisoners in Pennsylvania challenged a prison policy prohibiting them from watching films rated R, X, or NC-17. The prison policy was designed to implement the Zimmer Amendment,2 which denies funding to any prison that shows R, X, or NC-17 films.3 After the District Court denied the prisoners’ claims in a cursory opinion, the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit remanded for a more fa...

Athletes improve performance when an optimal balance between training stress and recovery exists. If out of proportion, overtraining syndrome (OTS) can ensue. Currently several biomarkers are used to detect OTS, but none meets all prespecified criteria for definite diagnosis. The purpose of the study was to investigate the effects of eight week endurance running training program on biochemical,...