Psychology & Psychiatry
Chatty kids do better at school
Young children go on to achieve more academic success when their verbal skills are enhanced, a new study suggests.
Mar 24, 2020
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Reshaping modern play spaces for children's health
A world first review of the importance of nature play could transform children's play spaces, supporting investment in city and urban parks, while also delivering important opportunities for children's physical, social and ...
Feb 14, 2020
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Addressing the emotional toll of pediatric chronic conditions
Be it autism, sickle cell or other life-disrupting health conditions, being the parent of a child with a chronic condition takes a psychological toll. For too many families, however, emotional and behavioral health support ...
Jan 9, 2020
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Pediatrics
When do alcohol-dependent mothers parent harshly?
Not surprisingly, parents with substance use disorders often struggle with parenting and frequently have strained relationships with their children. Moreover, research has solidly demonstrated that the children of these parents ...
Nov 19, 2019
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Hardship could harm children's language skills
Children from disadvantaged backgrounds are three times more likely to develop difficulties with language than those from more affluent areas, research suggests.
Oct 8, 2019
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Pediatrics
Making the most of your baby's first 3 years
Experts agree that the first three years of a baby's life are a unique time of fast development.
Sep 23, 2019
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Study links low language ability and poor mental health
One of the first studies of its kind focusing on South African children's language ability and mental health outcomes, has found clear evidence for a link between low language ability and depression in young people.
Sep 6, 2019
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Working parents' mental health improves when young children are in nursery school
Working parents have better mental health when their young children are looked after part-time in nursery schools or other formal childcare, rather than just by relatives, research says.
Aug 22, 2019
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Attention deficit disorders
School readiness impaired in preschoolers with ADHD symptoms, study finds
Preschoolers with symptoms of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder are much less likely than other children their age to be ready for school, new research from the Stanford University School of Medicine has found.
Jul 22, 2019
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Neuroscience
Mood neurons mature during adolescence
Researchers have discovered a mysterious group of neurons in the amygdala—a key center for emotional processing in the brain—that stay in an immature, prenatal developmental state throughout childhood. Most of these cells ...
Jun 24, 2019
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