A Missouri teenager, Alyssa Bustamante, attended church and got good grades in school. But a troubled childhood and untreated mental health issues opened the door for her unprovoked, inexplicable killing of nine-year-old Elizabeth Olten.
However, many psychologists and mental health experts have said the connection between SSRI meds like Prozac and violent crime are dubious and not causally related. A Family History Alyssa's defense team recounted a family history of drug abuse, suicide attempts, and mental disorders. In depicting...
How You Say It:Why You Talk the Way You Do—And What It Says About You, which was published on July 21. Described by one reviewer as “an articulate examination of an underrecognized aspect of human communication,” the book highlights the immense power of speech, and explores...
. Whereas writing in the early grades involves primarily learning to write letters, spell, and compose short texts, by fourth grade children are expected to compose increasingly complex and lengthy written texts, requiring closer attention to the structural and compositional aspects of the text as a...
Although constraints reduce the number of possibilities they do not causally determine things either. Constraints are essential to Deacon's description of biotic systems. They bear a similarity to the constraint of the cylinder in an internal combustion engine which forces the energy released in the ...