by Dr. Christine M. Silverstein | Jan 5, 2026 | Ideal Performance
During the holiday season of promoting joy and peace into the New Year, there is good news. I find a glimmer of hope for women and girls who live many miles from my home in New Jersey. To my surprise, it makes me feel good to learn that there is such a thing as the...
by Dr. Christine M. Silverstein | Dec 10, 2025 | Ideal Performance
During this time of the holiday season, some of us begin to begin again thinking about our New Year’s resolution on a quest for self-improvement. What will the focus be this year? Weight regulation? Stress reduction? Improvement of mood? Bringing more optimism into...
by Dr. Christine M. Silverstein | Nov 25, 2025 | Ideal Performance
Some food experts are calling Thanksgiving 2025 the most food-insecure holiday in recent US history. The contributing factors are rising food prices and reduced government benefits that are making it more challenging for many low-income families to afford holiday...
by Dr. Christine M. Silverstein | Nov 10, 2025 | Ideal Performance
In view of the everchanging and confusing landscape where the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is in jeopardy, states braced themselves for a freeze on federal funding starting November 1, 2025, amid a protracted US government shutdown. States like...
by Dr. Christine M. Silverstein | Oct 27, 2025 | Ideal Performance
The shooting at the National Football League headquarters on Park Avenue in New York City on July 28, 2025, left four dead and one injured by the shooter, Shane Tamura, 27. He wrote tht he had the intent to kill and claimed that he acquired Chronic Traumatic...
by Dr. Christine M. Silverstein | Oct 20, 2025 | Ideal Performance
On October 15, 2024, Isabella Backman reported on an article in Molecular Psychiatry about a key brain difference linked to autism that was found for the first time in living people. PET scans revealed that the brains of adults with autism have fewer synapses than...
