Peer pressure in preschool children
Adults and adolescents often adjust their behaviour and opinions to peer groups, even when they themselves know better. Researchers from the Max Planck Institutes for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 25, 2011 |
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Study: Adults can't tell when children are intentionally lying or misinformed
(Medical Xpress) -- How well adults can detect if children are lying or reporting misinformation is no better than the odds of chance, reports a new Cornell study. The findings have implications for physical and sexual abuse ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 19, 2011 |
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AAP expands ages for diagnosis and treatment of ADHD in children
Updated guidelines from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) offer new information on diagnosing and treating Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in younger children and in adolescents.
Attention deficit disorders
Oct 16, 2011 |
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Early use of non-parental childcare is not harmful for most children
What type of childcare arrangements do parents choose before their children are 18 months old? Does the choice of childcare affect children's language skills and mental health at the age of five?
Health
Sep 27, 2011 |
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Child-care facilities can do more to promote healthy eating and physical activity among preschoolers
Eating and physical activity habits for a lifetime can develop at an early age. As the use of preschool child care increases and the prevalence of childhood obesity is at an all-time high, the opportunity to positively impact ...
Health
Aug 26, 2011 |
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Hiding vegetables in kids' foods can increase vegetable intake
Preschool children consumed nearly twice as many vegetables and 11 percent fewer calories over the course of a day when researchers Penn State added pureed vegetables to the children's favorite foods.
Health
Jul 25, 2011 |
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Learning to count not as easy as 1, 2, 3: Working with larger numbers matters
Preschool children seem to grasp the true concept of counting only if they are taught to understand the number value of groups of objects greater than three, research at the University of Chicago shows.
Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 14, 2011 |
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Cognitive impairment seen in preschool children with epilepsy
A recent study has shown that cognitive impairment is evident early on in preschool children with epilepsy, consistent with results of similar studies in older children. Age of onset of first seizure is a significant predictor ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jun 02, 2011 |
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Changes in brain circuitry play role in moral sensitivity as people grow up
(Medical Xpress) -- People's moral responses to similar situations change as they age, according to a new study at the University of Chicago that combined brain scanning, eye-tracking and behavioral measures ...
Neuroscience
May 27, 2011 |
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Validating preschool programs for children with autism
Researchers from the University of Miami (UM) Department of Psychology participated in a multi-site study to examine different teaching models for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). The study is one of the first ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
May 19, 2011 |
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