News tagged with young people
Brain scans reveal differences in regret as people age
(Medical Xpress) -- New research using brains scans shows that many elderly people have over time either learned to not stew over things they regret or to not regret them at all. Those that don’t learn such skills tend ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 20, 2012 |
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Excessive alcohol when you're young could have lasting impacts on your brain
(Medical Xpress)—Alcohol misuse in young people causes significant changes in their brain function and structure. This and other findings were recently reviewed by Dr Daniel Hermens from the University of Sydney's Brain and Mind Research Institute in the j ...
Health
Dec 18, 2012 |
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Brain imaging identifies bipolar risk
(Medical Xpress)—Researchers from the Black Dog Institute and University of NSW have used brain imaging technology to show that young people with a known genetic risk of bipolar but no clinical signs of ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 17, 2012 |
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2 drugs better than 1 to treat youth with type 2 diabetes
A combination of two diabetes drugs, metformin and rosiglitazone, was more effective in treating youth with recent-onset type 2 diabetes than metformin alone, a study funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has ...
Diabetes
Apr 29, 2012 |
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How many calories does it take to reach childhood obesity prevention goals?
In order for the nation to achieve goals set by the federal government for reducing obesity rates by 2020, children in the United States would need to eliminate an average of 64 excess calories per day, researchers calculated ...
Health
Apr 10, 2012 |
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1 in 12 teenagers self-harm but most stop by their twenties
(Medical Xpress) -- Despite self-harm being one of the strongest predictors of completed suicide, 90% of young people who self-harm as adolescents cease self-harming once they reach young adulthood. However, ...
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Nov 18, 2011 |
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Sleep does not benefit learning in older adults as it does for young people: study
(Medical Xpress) -- Neuroscientists have long known that memory, sleep quality and sleep duration deteriorate with age, yet sleep enhances two major types of learning in young people. To date, few investigations have looked ...
Neuroscience
Nov 14, 2011 |
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Young people having more unprotected sex: study
The number of young people having unprotected sex in the West has risen sharply over the past two years, a survey said Monday, with health professionals concerned the safe sex message is falling on deaf ears.
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Sep 26, 2011 |
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Juvenile delinquency linked to higher suicide risk
Criminality can be an indicator of a higher risk of suicide in young people. A new study from Karolinska Institutet and the National Board of Health and Welfare shows that repeat offenders between the ages of 15 and 19 are ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 14, 2011 |
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Boys reach sexual maturity younger and younger
(Medical Xpress) -- Boys are maturing physically earlier than ever before. The age of sexual maturity has been decreasing by about 2.5 months each decade at least since the middle of the 18th century. Joshua ...
Health
Aug 18, 2011 |
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Staying on the meds: Involving young patients in the treatment for their chronic illnesses
Researchers at The University of Nottingham have examined why large numbers of children and young people sometimes don't take their medication, despite suffering from a range of chronic and potentially life-threatening ...
Health
May 08, 2013 |
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Smoking prevention in schools: Does it work?
Smoking prevention in schools reduces the number of young people who will later become smokers, according to a new systematic review published in The Cochrane Library. For young people who have never smoked, these progra ...
Health
Apr 29, 2013 |
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Teens, young adults bear disproportionate share of STDs
In the heat of the moment, it's a good bet sexually transmitted infections are the last thing on a teen's or young adult's mind. Thus, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, young people ages ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Apr 28, 2013 |
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Sexually explicit material affects behavior in young people less than thought
Viewing sexually explicit material through media such as the Internet, videos, and magazines may be directly linked with the sexual behavior of adolescents and young adults, but only to a very small extent. That is the conclusion ...
Health
Apr 25, 2013 |
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Lack of alternatives drives teenagers to drink, study warns
(Medical Xpress)—A focus on alcohol-related entertainment in the North East normalises binge drinking among young people, a new study has found. Tim Townshend, of the School of Architecture, Planning & Lan ...
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Apr 18, 2013 |
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Youth
Youth is the period between childhood and adulthood, described as the period of physical and psychological development from the onset of puberty to maturity and early adulthood. Definitions of the specific age range that constitutes youth vary. An individual's actual maturity may not correspond to their chronological age, as immature individuals exist at all ages.
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