http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. As high schoolers prepare for final exams, teens nationwide may be tempted to use a "study drug"—a prescription stimulant or amphetamine—to gain an academic edge. But a new University of Michigan poll shows only one in 100 parents of teens 13-17 years old believes that their teen has used a study drug. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-ten-teens-drugs-parents-arent.html Health Mon, 20 May 2013 13:14:08 EST news288274442 Are today's youth really more materialistic and less motivated than past generations, or do adults tend to perceive moral weakness in the next generation? http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-gap-teens-materialism-desire-hard.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 01 May 2013 13:00:21 EST news286625208 (HealthDay News) —The link between poor academic performance and substance abuse just got stronger, with a new U.S. government report showing ties between the two. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-drug-alcohol-abuse-high-school.html Health Wed, 20 Feb 2013 04:00:01 EST news280553273 Despite data on rising rates of abuse and overdoses of narcotic pain medicines across all age groups, in a new poll from the University of Michigan, most parents said they are not very concerned about misuse of these medicines by children and teens. . http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-parents-numb-misuse-narcotic-pain.html Health Wed, 23 Jan 2013 10:32:00 EST news278159488 (Medical Xpress)—New research from Western University provides brain imaging evidence that students well-versed in very basic single digit arithmetic (5+2=7 or 7-3=4) are better equipped to score higher on the Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test (PSAT), an examination sat by millions of students in the United States each year in preparation for college admission tests.   In findings published today in The Journal of Neuroscience (http://www.jneurosci.org/content/33/1.abstract.pdf) research led by Daniel Ansari, Associate Professor in Western's Department of Psychology and a principal investigator at the Brain and Mind Institute, showed by utilizing functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) on high school seniors that there was a significant link between their brain responses while solving extremely basic, single digit calculation problems and standard scores on the PSAT. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-neuroscience-reveals-link-basic-math.html Neuroscience Fri, 04 Jan 2013 07:27:11 EST news276506818 Continued high use of marijuana by the nation's eighth, 10th and 12th graders combined with a drop in perceptions of its potential harms was revealed in this year's Monitoring the Future survey, an annual survey of eighth, 10th, and 12th-graders conducted by researchers at the University of Michigan. The survey was carried out in classrooms around the country earlier this year, under a grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the National Institutes of Health. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-regular-marijuana-teens.html Addiction Wed, 19 Dec 2012 15:19:48 EST news275152762 (AP) -- More teens are turning to pot and see it as less of a risk at the same time alcohol use among the same age group has dipped to historic lows, according to an annual national survey of drug use released Wednesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-survey-teen-pot-alcohol-declines.html Health Wed, 14 Dec 2011 10:08:00 EST news243079669