Based on two new studies regarding mindfulness, it was found that students benefit from mindfulness training. Individuals who were taught to practice mindfulness felt lesser stress, did better for standardized academic tests and had better conduct in school.
Date Posted: August 27, 2019
Categories: Child Development, Mindfulness
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Light touch plays a critical role in everyday tasks, like picking up a glass a playing a musical instrument. This sensation is an essential part of the body’s protective defence system, alerting us to objects in our environment that could cause us ...
Aug 26
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This study introduces a new way of measuring life expectancy, accounting for the historical mortality conditions that today’s older generations lived through. By this measure, Australian men, on average, live to 74.1.
Aug 24
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Adults who have had traumatic experiences in the past are less likely to enjoy physical touches and perceive certain social gestures differently from individuals who were not subjected to trauma when they were younger.
Aug 23
Categories: Adult psychological development, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder ...
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Children who are consistently rated highly on interpersonal callousness through childhood might be more likely to show aggression and behave violently as they enter adolescence and adulthood.
Aug 23
Categories: Aggression & Violence, Child and/or Adolescent Issues
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Improving your mood might be just a walk in the park.
Aug 22
Categories: Other
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Young adolescents who are victims of bullying are more likely to attempt suicide, especially when they are bullied frequently. As such, specialized interventions need to be invented to cater to the needs of such adolescents in order to help them ...
Aug 22
Categories: Bullying, Suicide Prevention
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Researchers believe that stuttering – a potentially lifelong and debilitating speech disorder – stems from problems with the circuits in the brain that control speech, but the precise way of how and where these problems occur is unknown. Using a ...
Aug 21
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By helping parents learn to talk about certain topics such as sex and alcohol with their children, the awareness that adolescents have towards these issues will improve. This enables them to make wiser choices and engage in healthy behaviors which ...
Aug 20
Categories: Child and/or Adolescent Issues, Parenting
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People who adopt a positive mindset and engage in adaptive coping might find themselves less worrisome and experience lesser stress. As such, they often experience better sleep quality, where they are able to sleep sufficiently and peacefully.
Aug 20
Categories: Sleep Disorders
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A Dartmouth-led research team has identified a non-verbal, neural marker of autism. This marker shows that individuals with autism are slower to dampen neural activity in response to visual signals in the brain.
Aug 19
Categories: Autism spectrum disorders
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Statistics shows that children born with HIV in the United States were less likely to adhere to their medication as they age from preadolescence into young adulthood, according to new study at the School of Public Health.
Aug 17
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Consuming marijuana and alcohol simultaneously can result in individuals drinking alcohol more frequently and also in greater amounts. However, many individuals might be unaware of this as they often overlook the dangers of combining various ...
Aug 16
Categories: Addictions
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When it comes to encouraging children with autism who have speech problems to talk, pivotal response treatment seems to work best, especially when parents are involved. The treatment helps young children who have autism to communicate in a way which ...
Aug 16
Categories: Autism spectrum disorders, Pivotal Response Treatment
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Lack of sleep and excessive screen-time can cause children and adolescents to make poor decisions and act recklessly, which might lead to the worsening of their mental health and development of addictions in the future.
Aug 15
Categories: Child and/or Adolescent Issues, Child Development
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While opioids and cannabis have pain reduction effects, using both substances together might have undesirable effects on the consumer. Recent studies have found that individuals who mix both types of substances did not feel additional pain ...
Aug 15
Categories: Addictions, Anxiety, Chronic Pain, Depression, Drug Addiction
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