The Nature Fix

the strange body positions. Even impassive Mason, who moved as little as possible, swiveled her torso for g ...

University of Texas, Austin. He wanted to know what was making the approach successful while the other stan ...

to back it up. I want to see randomized control studies, bigger studies.” To collect more data on its pro ...

heads, would say it didn’t. Statistically, this seems about right. In other mental-health studies, for examp ...

11 Please Pass the Hacksaw Childhood is, or has been, or ought to be, the great original adventure, a tale ...

By second grade, it was clear that although Zack Smith could sit in a chair, he had no intention of ...

facing slab of quartzite in Pendleton County, West Virginia. His chin- length, strawberry-blond hair curled ...

in Balsam, North Carolina, for kids with ADHD and related learning disabilities. Its founding principle—radic ...

exploration more than others, or were simply more comfortable in the new, unfamiliar habitats. These are ...

them. “The digital age is profoundly narrowing our horizons and our creativity, not to mention our bodies and physio ...

was determined to find a better way. The school enrolls just 32 students, 26 of them boys, divided into ...

experiencing the peak effects of common ADHD medication. More recently, a study of 2,000 children in Bar ...

Interestingly, researchers have observed similar patterns in lab rats, who, let’s face it, suffer the ulti ...

on the continuum of these traits, but people with more severe symptoms appear to have different chemistry ...

started a school for small children in 1837. It was while walking in the woods (walking in the woods!) that ...

popularity across northern Europe. In these preschools, kids are out in all kinds of weather, playing with n ...

the Finnish school system, celebrating the nation’s high spot in global academic standings, they routinely i ...

But, alas, not the United States, where little kids spend more time at their desks than ever. Prescho ...

AT SOAR, MANY students arrive on meds, and many stay on them. At all times, the instructors carry sealed ...

America. The incidence has quadrupled in the two countries’ children in the last fifteen years. When you put litt ...