THRIVING WITH DYSLEXIA. The Wall Street Journal has posted the story of a young woman who tested as gifted in preschool but ran into trouble when reading entered the curriculum. She was in a Manhattan private school, according to the story, and was "subtly asked to leave." It tur... Read more

EVIDENCE-BASED THERAPY is the topic of a recent article in The New York Times. According to the article, many counselors and clinicians fail to use therapies that are evidence based, as is cognitive-behavioral therapy, which has been shown to be effective in a range of disorders ... Read more

AUTISM 1 IN 50. That's the most recent estimate of the incidence of autism among US schoolchildren, based on a government survey. The increase from 1 in 88 is attributed to changes in diagnosing rather than to actual increases inoccurrence Read more.PRUNING IN PUBERTY. The brain ... Read more

IT'S BRAIN AWARENESS WEEK, and you can find out more about this annual global event and how to observe it by going to the BAW Facebook page or to the website of the BAW foundersponsor, the Dana Foundation. The purpose of the week is to increase public awareness of brain research.... Read more

ADDERALL MISUSE. Those of you with kids on stimulant meds for ADHD might be interested in a couple recent articles on the misuse of those drugs, both pretty scary. One is a first-person account by a young woman in New York and the effects of her dependency; the other is an op-ed ... Read more