http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. A groundbreaking study of 13 and 14-year-olds in 13 Staffordshire schools has revealed worrying levels of domestic abuse among the young. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-high-domestic-abuse-revealed-teenagers.html Health Tue, 19 Mar 2013 09:07:45 EST news282902857 In one of three studies, Pia Rosander carried out personality tests on 200 pupils in southern Sweden when they entered upper secondary school at 16. Three years later, when they received their final grades, she was able to observe a strong link between personality and grades. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-school-favors-pupils-driven-conscientiousness.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 24 Jan 2013 11:05:12 EST news278247905 Physical violence among young people is on the decline overall in nearly thirty countries including the UK, according to a new international study involving researchers from the University of Hertfordshire. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-youth-violence-declining-uk.html Pediatrics Tue, 04 Dec 2012 08:32:10 EST news273832323 Problems caused by bullying do not necessarily cease when the abuse stops. Recent research shows that victims may need long-term support. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-bullied-trauma-symptoms.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 27 Nov 2012 09:51:51 EST news273232296 Cycling or walking to school increases a child's ability to concentrate in the classroom, the results of a Danish study published Friday showed. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-school.html Health Fri, 23 Nov 2012 12:48:47 EST news272897280 (Medical Xpress)—Robots are being used as classroom buddies for children with autism in a groundbreaking initiative that aims to improve social interaction and communication. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-robots-classroom-buddies-children-autism.html Autism spectrum disorders Fri, 09 Nov 2012 06:12:49 EST news271663956 (Medical Xpress)—Problems caused by bullying do not necessarily cease when the abuse stops. Recent research at the Universitiy of Stavanger (UiS) and Bergen's Center for Crisis Psychology in Norway shows that victims may need long-term support. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-bullied-ptsd-children.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 05 Nov 2012 07:50:11 EST news271324196 In general, a deaf or hearing-impaired child knows fewer words than a child who can hear well. Researcher Karien Coppens of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) discovered that the weakness in vocabulary is the greatest when it comes to difficult words for which an in-depth understanding of their meaning is required. A limited vocabulary is the most important cause of problems in reading comprehension. An electronic vocabulary test, which will be used in primary schools for children with special needs, has been developed on the basis of the research results. Coppens gained her doctorate from Radboud University Nijmegen on 5 October 2012. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-deaf-children-vocabulary-words-difficult.html Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 02 Nov 2012 10:14:53 EST news271070076 "When children are given professional first aid training at primary school, the benefits can be felt long term. That's why training in the early years is so incredibly important," says Fritz Sterz from the University Department of Emergency Medicine at the MedUni Vienna as pupils start school this week. The results of a recent study by Katrin Steiner from the MedUni Vienna, who is writing her thesis, also highlight this fact. The anaesthetist and emergency medicine physician has demonstrated that primary school children who are given first aid training in the first to fourth grades of school score highly when it comes to using a defibrillator or performing chest compressions. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-aid-primary-students-long-term-benefits.html Other Wed, 05 Sep 2012 08:33:23 EST news266052750 There is a popular belief that sexual orientation can be revealed by pupil dilation to attractive people, yet until now there was no scientific evidence. For the first time, researchers at Cornell University used a specialized infrared lens to measure pupillary changes to participants watching erotic videos. Pupils were highly telling: they widened most to videos of people who participants found attractive, thereby revealing where they were on the sexual spectrum from heterosexual to homosexual. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-pupil-dilation-reveals-sexual.html Other Mon, 06 Aug 2012 01:04:15 EST news263433848 A series of open days for school pupils with autism have been held at the University following a three-year-long project funded by EPSRC during which researchers worked with the youngsters to develop a computer-based tutor aimed at improving their mathematics learning. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-key-autistic-pupils.html Autism spectrum disorders Fri, 27 Jul 2012 05:23:51 EST news262585424 (HealthDay) -- Mandates for physical education in most of the United States fall short of the guidelines set forth by the National Association of Sport and Physical Education, according to a new study. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-johnny.html Health Thu, 26 Jul 2012 18:03:57 EST news262544631 Over half of inner city school-kids in deprived areas may be consuming fast foods/drinks at least twice a week, if the findings from one London borough are applicable elsewhere, suggests research published in the online journal BMJ Open. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-city-children-deprived-areas-consuming.html Health Wed, 20 Jun 2012 18:30:11 EST news259426235 Significant numbers of teens regularly carry rucksacks for school which top 10 to 15 per cent of their body weight and risk back pain and other related disorders, finds research published online in the Archives of Disease in Childhood. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-heavy-rucksacks-problems-school-kids.html Health Thu, 15 Mar 2012 05:13:08 EST news251007156 The eyes are the window into the soul -- or at least the mind, according to a new paper published in Perspectives on Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. Measuring the diameter of the pupil, the part of the eye that changes size to let in more light, can show what a person is paying attention to. Pupillometry, as it's called, has been used in social psychology, clinical psychology, humans, animals, children, infants—and it should be used even more, the authors say. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-pupils-windows-mind.html Psychology & Psychiatry Sat, 28 Jan 2012 06:19:28 EST news246953957 (Medical Xpress) -- We all know that our pupils contract when our eyes are exposed to increases in the brightness of light. The reason is to both protect the delicate inner workings of our eyes and to help provide for optimum viewing based on available light. But we also know that our pupils dilate, or become larger when we are aroused, regardless of the reason, which means that pupil size is not always just a reaction to lighting conditions. Now, new research by Bruno Laeng and Tor Endestad from the Department of Psychology at the University of Oslo, shows that our pupils also react based on what we think we see sometimes, rather than what is actually there. In their paper, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the two show that pupil constriction occurs when viewing an optical illusion that at first makes us believe one image is brighter than another, when in reality, they are the same. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-optical-illusion-higher-brain-functions.html Neuroscience Wed, 25 Jan 2012 09:00:01 EST news246702278 (Medical Xpress) -- New research into the cause of school absence finds that up to one per cent of secondary pupils could be suffering from chronic fatigue. The study, led by academics at the University of Bristol is published today in the BMJOpen. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-chronic-fatigue-major-school-absence.html Health Tue, 13 Dec 2011 06:30:01 EST news242978856 Young people with autism may find it difficult to multitask because they stick rigidly to tasks in the order they are given to them, according to research led by an academic at the University of Strathclyde. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-inflexibility-pupils-autism-problems-multitasking.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 15 Aug 2011 13:11:45 EST news232632692 A new study suggests young people with a serious genetic blood disorder are not getting the right help at school, especially pupils who miss lessons due to sickness. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-schools-pupils-sickle-cell-disease.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 20 Jul 2011 09:55:08 EST news230374498 New evidence commissioned by a leading partnership of food charities shows that a whole school approach to food that links practical food education with quality school dinners leads to a better family diet and can improve academic performance and behavior. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-school-meal-u-turn-cooking-skills.html Health Mon, 23 May 2011 10:20:26 EST news225364800