Psychology & Psychiatry
How to prevent your child from getting bullied—or being a bully
(HealthDay)—With the start of a new school year, bullying will become an issue for many children and their parents.
Aug 22, 2018
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News tagged with aggressive behavior
Psychology & Psychiatry
Targeting a brain mechanism could treat aggression
A number of psychiatric disorders present with aggression and violence, which, needless to say, are destructive to both individuals and societies worldwide: death, disease, disability, and numerous socioeconomic problems ...
Aug 9, 2018
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Psychology & Psychiatry
An aggressor is not necessarily a bully—and the distinction matters
Spotting a bully is more nuanced than it might seem, because there is a difference between general aggressive behavior and bullying. They are not the same thing, according to the findings of a new paper by a University at ...
Jul 5, 2018
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Neuroscience
What makes aggressive mice so violent
Aggressive behavior and the motivation to act aggressively have distinct molecular bases, according to a study of male mice published in JNeurosci. This finding suggests the possibility of reducing aggression by targeting ...
Jun 11, 2018
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Neuroscience
Childhood aggression linked to deficits in executive function
A new study finds that deficits in executive function—a measure of cognitive skills that allow a person to achieve goals by controlling their behavior - predicts later aggressive behavior. The study, published in open-access ...
Mar 15, 2018
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Daily dose of violent video games has no long-term effect on adult aggression: study
Playing violent action adventure games for prolonged periods does not make adults more aggressive say researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Human Development and the University Clinic Hamburg-Eppendorf in Germany. ...
Mar 14, 2018
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Parents' alcohol use can set the stage for teenage dating violence, study finds
Having a parent with an alcohol use disorder increases the risk for dating violence among teenagers, according to a study from the University at Buffalo Research Institute on Addictions.
Oct 19, 2017
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Neuroscience
Sex and aggression controlled separately in female animal brains, but overlap in male brains
Brain structures that control sexual and aggressive behavior in mice are wired differently in females than in males. This the finding of a study led by scientists at NYU School of Medicine and published online Sept. 18 in ...
Sep 18, 2017
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Neuroscience
Team traces masculinization in mice to estrogen receptor in inhibitory neurons
Researchers at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) have opened a black box in the brain whose contents explain one of the remarkable yet mysterious facts of life.
Jul 20, 2017
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Political violence gets under kids' skin—and may stay
When children are victims of political violence, they tend to become more aggressive with members of their own peer group, and that aggression tends to linger as they age, according to a University of Michigan study.
May 23, 2017
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