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Ingrid Wickelgren of Scientific American writes about the innovative research initiatives at the Child Mind Institute.

Scientific American's Ingrid Wickelgren highlights the ongoing science initiatives at the Child Mind Institute. The science team is actively working to improve diagnosis and treatment of mental illness through science, building a repository of brain scans in order to better understand both ordinary brain development and how mental illness might warp that process. Through multiple data collection initiatives and an open sharing model CMI scientists are helping shed light on the brain.

Gina Glickman-Giordan wrote in the "Whispers" column of Dan's Paper about the Yoga Gives and Child Mind Institute benefit with yoga instructor, Hilaria Thomas Baldwin. The event raised $8,000 to support the Child Mind Institute's financial aid fund. Glickman-Giordan also talks Baldwin's inspiration behind taking part in the event and rumors swirling of a possible pregnancy.

The Huffington Post looks at a new analysis of data that showed that nearly half of teens with autism are bullied. The article draws on the Child Mind Institute's Editorial Director, Caroline Miller for a positive note that behaviors might already have changed in the more than ten years since the survey’s data were collected in 2000-1.

Dr. Michael Milham, director of the Center for the Developing Brain at the Child Mind Institute is part of the initiative of neuroimaging specialists that launched the International Neuroimaging Data-Sharing Initiative's Summer of Sharing to encourage cooperation and data sharing among imaging researchers. Images of the brain may hold the key to understanding the causes of behavior, or conditions such as autism. The Autism Brain Imaging Data Exchange consortium released a huge volume of new data: 1,100 brain scans, roughly half of them subjects with autism, and the rest controls.

Page Six wonders if Hilaria Thomas Baldwin, the wife of Alec Baldwin is pregnant. The column looks at her activities over the last few days. We know that Ms. Thomas Baldwin spent the weekend in Southampton, teaching yoga to friends of the Child Mind Institute in support of the financial aid program.

Bloomingdale’s is partnering with ABC for an exciting in-store event for the premiere of the fantasy drama, “Once Upon a Time.” Shoppers can bid for the chance to meet the cast with proceeds going to the Child Mind Institute.

The Child Mind Institute's Dr. Rachel Busman talks to the Today show about the shifts and transitions for kids as they head back to school. She explains what the onsets and normal amounts of anxiety might be as well as when is a good time for parents to help.

In a new column for Scholastic's Instructor magazine, Dr. Melanie Fernandez answers questions on how to manage children's behavior in the classroom. First she answers questions on how to build a younger sibling's self-esteem and when to give input on IEPs.

How do we nurture our children’s brains and how do we know when they in trouble and need professional help? Ingrid Wickelgren talks to the Child Mind Institute's clinicians to show how diagnosis, treatment and parent training really makes a difference for children struggling with mental illnesses.