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New Research: Digital Mental Health for Young People
A recent large-scale meta-analysis examining the effectiveness of universal digital mental health interventions (DMHIs) for children and adolescents referenced research by Dr. Pamela Cantor and colleagues on brain plasticity and the role of context in development.
July 2025
The Future of The Science of Learning and Development
Pamela Cantor, M.D. and David Osher on Whole-Child Development, Learning, and Thriving in an Era of Collective Adversity, Disruptive Change, and Increasing Inequality, from the Routledge publication The Heredity Hoax: Challenging Flawed Genetic Theories of Human Development
2025
Weaving a Colorful Cloth: Centering Education on Humans’ Emergent Developmental Potentials
A research synthesis by Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, Na’ilah Suad Nasir, Pamela Cantor, M.D., and Hirokazu Yoshikawa offers a conceptual foundation for rethinking the nature of learning, the work of teaching, and the purpose and design of schools and youth-facing policies.
Implications for Educational Practice of the Science of Learning and Development
A research synthesis by Linda Darling-Hammond aimed at educators.
Drivers of Human Development: How Relationships and Context Shape Learning and Development
A synthesis of the role of relationships and key macro and micro-contexts—poverty, racism, families, communities, schools, and peers—in supporting and/or undermining the healthy development of children and youth, using a relational developmental systems framework.
Malleability, Plasticity, and Individuality—How Children Learn and Develop in Context
A synthesis of foundational knowledge from multiple scientific disciplines regarding how humans develop in context.
Psychopathology among New York City public school children 6 months after September 11
Children exposed to a traumatic event may be at higher risk for developing mental disorders.