Psychology & Psychiatry
Causes of loneliness differ between generations
People of different generations are equally lonely but for different reasons, a study suggests.
Mar 11, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Predicting the COVID-19 outbreak: How AI connects the dots to warn about disease threats
Canadian artificial intelligence firm BlueDot has been in the news in recent weeks for warning about the new coronavirus days ahead of the official alerts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World ...
Mar 3, 2020
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Health
E-cigarette popularity on Instagram is still growing despite an FDA anti-vaping campaign
Promotional vaping Instagram posts outnumber anti-vaping content 10,000 to 1, according to a new study published in Frontiers in Communication.
Jan 22, 2020
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Psychology & Psychiatry
How to put limits on your family's screen time
(HealthDay)—While kids get some benefit from using digital and social media, such as early learning and exposure to new ideas, too much of it can negatively affect their health, sleep and eating habits, and even their attention ...
Jun 10, 2019
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Neuroscience
Mind melding: Understanding the connected, social brain
Parents may often feel like they are not "on the same wavelength" as their kids. But it turns out that, at least for babies, their brainwaves literally sync with their moms when they are learning from them about their social ...
Mar 26, 2019
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Autism spectrum disorders
A smartphone app to treat and track autism
Diagnosing autism can take half a day or more of clinical observation, and that's the quick part – often, families wait years just to get to that point. Now, in hopes of speeding things up, Stanford researchers are developing ...
Mar 7, 2019
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Psychology & Psychiatry
British state betrayed its children – these countries can teach us how to set things right
Children are the UK's most precious resource. More older people are living longer, and it is today's children who will provide the wealth to support them. So, from an economic perspective, the UK needs healthy, educated, ...
Oct 24, 2018
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Pediatrics
Kids' play is healthy, pediatricians' group says
(HealthDay)—Play is a child's most important work, preschool teachers like to say, and a new American Academy of Pediatrics report wholeheartedly agrees.
Aug 21, 2018
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Neuroscience
Hope for autism: Optogenetics shines light on social interactions
Ilana Witten didn't set out to study spatial learning. She thought she was investigating how mice socialize—but she discovered that in mouse brains, the social and the spatial are inextricably linked.
Dec 7, 2017
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Psychology & Psychiatry
New guidance improves support for parents with learning disabilities
Updated advice on how to work with parents who have learning difficulties has been issued by the Working Together with Parents Network (WPTN), led by the University of Bristol.
Oct 6, 2016
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