(HealthDay)—Overall, 6.8 percent of children age 5 to 17 years were victims of or witnessed violence in their neighborhood in 2019, according to a September data brief published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and ...
Sep 16, 2021
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Chronic stress is a well-known cause for mental health disorders. New research has moved a step forward in understanding how glucocorticoid hormones ('stress hormones') act upon the brain and what their function is. The ...
Aug 6, 2021
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Schizophrenia is often diagnosed well into adulthood, typically from the late teens to early 40s. Are there early indicators that could help predict which individuals will go on to develop this serious mental illness?
Jul 27, 2021
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New research by scientists at Oxford Brookes University has identified specific genes which could provide vital information about the biology of developmental coordination disorder (DCD), also known as dyspraxia. Dyspraxia ...
Jun 9, 2021
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In a study published in Cell Reports, Dr. Zhou Jiawei's Lab at the Institute of Neuroscience, Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology (CEBSIT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Dr. Hu Gang's ...
May 19, 2021
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Spanking may affect a child's brain development in similar ways to more severe forms of violence, according to a new study led by Harvard researchers.
Apr 12, 2021
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One of the biggest longitudinal research studies of its kind in the world led by The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) and the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) suggests that positive outcomes for children ...
Mar 30, 2021
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Child development can be vastly improved by providing pregnant women and caregivers of children with an integrated intervention that consists of improved water, sanitation, hygiene (WASH), nutrition, mental health care and ...
Mar 26, 2021
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Babies born after March 11 2020 will have only known a world in the grip of a pandemic. They may never have met anyone who isn't their parent, or they may only ever have seen their grandparents from a distance. They certainly ...
Mar 10, 2021
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Conflict between divorced or separated parents increases the risk of children developing physical and mental health problems.
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