Researchers with the UC Davis MIND Institute have found that prenatal exposure to specific combinations of antibodies found only in mothers of children with autism leads to changes in the brain that adversely affect behavior and development. The researchers said that the highly specific ...
Date Posted: July 12, 2013
Categories: Child Development
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Divorce has a bigger impact on child-parent relationships if it occurs in the first few years of the child's life, according to new research. Those who experience parental divorce early in their childhood tend to have more insecure relationships ...
Jul 1
Categories: Child and/or Adolescent Issues, Child Development, Divorce / Divorce ...
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The clues that parents give toddlers about words can make a big difference in how deep their vocabularies are when they enter school, new research at the University of Chicago shows.
By using words to reference objects in the visual environment, ...
Jun 25
Categories: Child Development
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For decades, psychologists and other researchers assumed that the mother-child bond was the most important one in a kid's life. They focused on studying those relationships, and however a child turned out, mom often got the credit — or ...
Jun 22
Categories: Child Development, Parenting
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Women in the U.S. exposed to high levels of air pollution while pregnant were up to twice as likely to have a child with autism as women who lived in areas with low pollution, according to a new study from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH). It ...
Jun 19
Categories: Autism spectrum disorders, Child Development
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Fights between siblings – from toy-snatching to clandestine whacks to being banished from the bedroom – are so common they’re often dismissed as simply part of growing up. Yet a new study from researchers at the University of New Hampshire ...
Jun 19
Categories: Child and/or Adolescent Issues, Child Development
GOSometimes kids just don't listen! But yelling rarely works. So Doctor G has a few things to try before (or after) the screaming ...
Jun 5
Categories: Child and/or Adolescent Issues, Child Development, Parenting
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Children who are exposed to secondhand smoke in early childhood are more likely to grow up to physically aggressive and antisocial, regardless of whether they were exposed during pregnancy or their parents have a history of being antisocial, ...
May 23
Categories: Addictions, Child Development
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As high schoolers prepare for final exams, teens nationwide may be tempted to use a “study drug” — a prescription stimulant or amphetamine — to gain an academic edge. But a new University of Michigan poll shows only one in 100 parents of ...
May 22
Categories: Addictions, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Child ...
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Almost fifteen years ago, in a book called “Chance, Development, and Aging,” the gerontologists Caleb Finch and Thomas Kirkwood described a truly elegant study of biology: a batch of roundworms, all genetically identical, raised on identical ...
May 17
Categories: Adult psychological development, Child Development, Individuation
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Many parents' reasons for using controlled crying can be summed up in one word: work. Parents who want "routines" are keen on controlled crying, says Gina Ford, a famous British advocate of the system, and she comments that babies who have been ...
May 9
Categories: Child Development, Parenting
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Math and reading ability at age 7 may be linked with socioeconomic status several decades later, according to new research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. The childhood abilities predict ...
May 9
Categories: Child Development, Learning Difficulties
GOMothers who have experienced childhood abuse, neglect or other traumatic experiences show an unwillingness to talk with their children about the child’s emotional experiences, a new study from the University of Notre Dame shows.
May 7
Categories: Child Development, Parenting, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) / ...
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Researchers at the University of Waterloo have found that children hear more complex language from parents when they read a storybook with only pictures compared to a picture-vocabulary book. The findings appear in the latest issue of the journal ...
Apr 30
Categories: Child Development
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Imagine not being able to recognise your own child at nursery or even pick out your own face from a line-up of photos.
This is just how severe face blindness, or prosopagnosia, can be.
"In extreme cases, people might withdraw socially - become ...
Apr 6
Categories: Child Development, Social Anxiety / Phobia
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A new study found that obstructive sleep apnea, a common form of sleep-disordered breathing (SDB), is associated with increased rates of ADHD-like behavioral problems in children as well as other adaptive and learning problems.
"This study provides ...
Apr 2
Categories: Child Development, Learning Difficulties, Sleep Disorders
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