News tagged with longitudinal research

Dating in middle school leads to higher dropout, drug-use rates

Students who date in middle school have significantly worse study skills, are four times more likely to drop out of school and report twice as much alcohol, tobacco and marijuana use than their single classmates, ...

Health Mar 15, 2013 | 3 / 5 (4) | 1

Researchers explore benefits of 'social medicines'

'Social medicines' are beneficial to the health and wellbeing of individuals and the population. By combining social and biological information from UK Longitudinal studies (life-course studies) researchers have identified ...

Health Nov 06, 2012 | not rated yet | 0

Researchers to study the developmental implications of toddlers' sleep patterns

ZZZs don't always come easy for children still learning their ABCs.

Pediatrics Oct 04, 2012 | not rated yet | 0

Targeting childhood obesity early

With childhood obesity now affecting 17 percent of American children, the nation is rallying around the concept that serious action is required. In 2010, President Barack Obama established the first Task ...

Overweight and Obesity Sep 19, 2012 | not rated yet | 0

Multiple sclerosis drug disappoints on disability

(Medical Xpress) -- This week the Journal of the American Medical Association published a study with unfortuate news for the millions of people who suffer from multiple sclerosis. In the large study, a therapy known as inte ...

Neuroscience Jul 23, 2012 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

Partner aggression in high-risk families affects parenting beginning at birth

Bickering spouses may need to clean up their act. New research at the University of Oregon finds that the level of aggression between partners around the time when a child is born impacts how a mom will be parenting three ...

Psychology & Psychiatry Apr 02, 2012 | not rated yet | 0

How moms talk influences children's perspective-taking ability

Young children whose mothers talk with them more frequently and in more detail about people's thoughts and feelings tend to be better at taking another's perspective than other children of the same age.

Psychology & Psychiatry Dec 22, 2011 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0 |