Health
What's motivating child's play?
Altering parents' and teachers' notion of risk taking behaviour can significantly increase children's physical activity suggests a study lead by University of Sydney researchers.
Apr 16, 2013
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Parent induces guilt, child shows distress
The use of guilt-inducing parenting in daily parent-child interaction causes children distress still evident on the next day, emerges from the study Parents, teachers, and children's learning (LIGHT) carried out by Kaisa ...
Mar 23, 2013
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Closer personal relationships could help teens overcome learning disabilities
A new study from a Tel Aviv University researcher says that children with learning disabilities develop less secure attachments with mothers and teachers, and that closer and more secure relationships with parents and adults ...
Feb 28, 2013
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Neuroscience
Early music lessons boost brain development, researchers find
If you started piano lessons in grade one, or played the recorder in kindergarten, thank your parents and teachers. Those lessons you dreaded – or loved – helped develop your brain. The younger you started music lessons, ...
Feb 12, 2013
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Researchers show that eye vergence influences visual attention
The journal PLOS ONE has recently published a study which provides new data around attention and visual perception. The article "A role of eye vergence in covert attention" was authored by researchers from the Institute for ...
Feb 7, 2013
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Children's complex thinking skills begin forming before they go to school
New research at the University of Chicago and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill shows that children begin to show signs of higher-level thinking skills as young as age 4 ½. Researchers have previously attributed ...
Jan 23, 2013
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Overweight & Obesity
Childhood obesity linked to more immediate health problems than previously thought
While a great deal of research on childhood obesity has spotlighted the long-term health problems that emerge in adulthood, a new UCLA study focuses on the condition's immediate consequences and shows that obese youngsters ...
Jan 14, 2013
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Overweight & Obesity
Youth seeking weight loss treatment report bullying by those they trust
(Medical Xpress)—Even as adolescents struggle to lose weight through treatment programs, they often continue to experience weight-based discrimination—not just from their peers, but from adults they trust, including parents ...
Dec 27, 2012
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Attention deficit disorders
For some children with ADHD, music has similar positive effects to medication
(Medical Xpress)—The findings are part of a study on the effects of distractors on children with ADHD. A team of researchers, led by FIU Center for Children and Families Director William E. Pelham Jr., set out to examine ...
Nov 5, 2012
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Health
Overloaded backpacks can injure kids: experts
(HealthDay)—As the school season starts, experts warn that overloaded backpacks often result in back injuries among children.
Aug 26, 2012
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