Heritability estimates based on two small studies in children indicate that the genetic contribution to individual differences in loneliness is approximately 50%. Heritability estimates of complex traits such as loneliness may change across the lifespan, however, as the frequency, duration, and range of exposure to environmental influences accrues, or as the expression of genetic factors change...

A lmost one million teenagers in the United States become pregnant each year (“Facts in Brief”), and these same teens’ ideas about sex and related matters are strongly influenced by the media. Young adult novels about teen pregnancy can speak to teens who “want to read about things that are interesting and true” (Donelson and Nilsen 87). These same teens also read young adult literature to “fin...

Due to the success of antiretroviral (ART) medications, young people living with perinatally acquired HIV (PHIV+) are now surviving into adolescence and young adulthood. Understanding factors influencing ART non-adherence in this group is important in developing effective adherence interventions. Most studies of ART adherence in HIV-positive populations assess differences in adherence levels an...

This study provides further evidence that the time-of-day (TOD) when testing is conducted affects cognitive performance in old rats and, for the first time in an animal model, in young adult rats as well. Groups of young and old rats were entrained to a 12-h light-dark schedule and administered tests of learning and memory in a non-matching-to-sample (NMTS) task in a water maze. Testing was con...

Background & Aims: Suicide in developing countries is an important health problem that occurs at a young age. Our purpose in this study was to compare the suicide trends using epidemiological aspects in Hamadan province in 2006 to 2010. Materials & Methods: The mortality data of suicide for the present study was extracted from the death registry for suicide in District Health Network in Hamada...

I have written a good deal about Coleman v. Wilson, 912 F.Supp 1282 (E.D. Cal. 1995)(the original decision) in my Landmark Cases Appendix in Fred Cohen, The Mentally Disordered Inmate and the Law, App. B-104 (1998). If one reads enough correctional law decisions from California you would expect to be immune from shock, particularly after Plata v. Schwarzenegger, No. C01-1351 (February 14, 2006)...