by DrBridgetWalker | Dec 4, 2015 | Anxiety, Behavior
Original Article by SHIRLEY S. WANG from Wall Street Journal can be read here. The DNA of dogs may offer clues about human conditions, such as obsessive-compulsive disorder and autism, according to researchers at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, who...
by DrBridgetWalker | Aug 18, 2015 | Behavior, Children
Original Article from The New York Times | By CATHERINE SAINT LOUIS | View Article DORAL, Fla. — Talking is a skill most children take for granted. But not in this classroom. A dozen young children sit in a circle, dressed for pajama day. Some clutch their knees or a...
by DrBridgetWalker | Aug 18, 2015 | Behavior, Children
Original Article from The Wall Street Journal | View Article It is circle time at summer camp and nearly a dozen 5- and 6-year-olds are sitting cross-legged on a blue rug. “Is it Wednesday or Friday?” counselor Stephanie Schwartz asks. Rachel, a little girl with a...
by DrBridgetWalker | Mar 9, 2015 | Behavior
This article is from the New York Times by By RICHARD A. FRIEDMAN CHANCES are that everyone on this planet has experienced anxiety, that distinct sense of unease and foreboding. Most of us probably assume that anxiety always has a psychological trigger. Yet clinicians...
by DrBridgetWalker | Jan 12, 2015 | Behavior
I didn’t go to Colorado to ski. I went because my father, to help me conquer my longstanding fear of driving, talked me into attending a two-day class at the Bridgestone Winter Driving School in Steamboat Springs. Everyone in my family — my parents, my brother, my...
by DrBridgetWalker | Apr 25, 2013 | Anxiety, Behavior, Children
My 3 yr. old is scared of the wind. He freaks out if I open the windows in my home and refuses to go outside with even the smallest of breezes. I tell him it won’t hurt him, but I also refuse to close the windows when he’s acting like this. I...
