After a concussion, teens who are sensitive to light or noise may be more likely to also have emotional symptoms such as anxiety. The symptoms after a concussion can vary widely from person to person. Symptoms can include physical, emotional and cognitive difficulties.
Date Posted: July 14, 2014
Categories: Teenage Issues
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Parents, teachers and cheesy after-school specials have long tried to convince kids that being cool and popular isn't all that it's cracked up to be. Now scientists are chiming in as well.
Dating, flouting authority and surrounding yourself with ...
Jun 19
Categories: Teenage Issues
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HONG KONG - Ingrained resistance to discussing mental health problems and suicide in Hong Kong is proving to be an obstacle to bringing down the rising rate of young people killing themselves, suicide prevention workers say.
The city's youth ...
Mar 24
Categories: Suicide Prevention, Teenage Issues
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Jilly Dos Santos really did try to get to school on time. She set three successive alarms on her phone. Skipped breakfast. Hastily applied makeup while her fuming father drove. But last year she rarely made it into the frantic scrum at the doors of ...
Mar 22
Categories: Sleep Disorders, Teenage Issues
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An RMIT University report on the happiness of disadvantaged Australian teenagers has emphasised the vital role of family and friends in mental wellbeing. The research examined the happiness of more than 23,000 "at-risk" Australian youth.
Mar 17
Categories: Social Isolation, Teenage Issues
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Adolescents with antisocial personality disorder inflict serious physical and psychological harm on both themselves and others. However, little is yet known about the underlying neural processes. Researchers at the University of Leiden and the Max ...
Mar 15
Categories: Antisocial personality, Child Development, Teenage Issues
GOBeing a teenager is hard. Especially when hormones play their part in wreaking havoc on the teenage body and brain. In this episode, ...
Mar 14
Categories: Teenage Issues
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Hong Kong - Last month, there was another tragic report of a suicide in the Chinese-language press, a post-secondary student in Hong Kong.
The student wanted to see a psychiatrist in a public psychiatric outpatient clinic and the earliest ...
Mar 12
Categories: Suicide Prevention, Teenage Issues
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Teenagers put a lot of stock in what their peers are doing, and parents are forever trying to push back against that influence. But with the advent of social media, hanging out with the wrong crowd can include not just classmates, but teenagers ...
Mar 11
Categories: Oppositional & Defiant Behavior in Children & Teens, Teenage ...
GOTAIWAN - Taiwanese teenagers - and especially females - who become sexually active at a very young age are more likely to be rule-breakers and be more aggressive than their peers. These are the findings of a national study of Taiwanese youth led by ...
Mar 7
Categories: Mental Health in Asia, Teenage Issues
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Mindfulness training in schools has been found to reduce and even prevent depression in adolescents.
The finding comes from research carried out in 408 students between the ages of 13 and 20 who were studying at five schools in Flanders, Belgium.
Jan 27
Categories: Child Development, Teenage Issues
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A group of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youths have come together to develop a new campaign to improve mental-health awareness among Indigenous youth.
They are working with the national youth mental-health foundation Headspace in attempt ...
Nov 1
Categories: Multicultural Concerns, Teenage Issues
GOThe onset of mental illness can occur as young as 14, so it stands to reason that the emotional wellbeing of youth is a very real and very relevant concern in today’s society.
Some of the problems young people face are longstanding; drug and ...
Sep 30
Categories: Child Development, Teenage Issues
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Australia - The National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre is hopeful the first trial of an online intervention to help treat combined depression and alcohol abuse in young people will encourage more people to seek help.
While other e-health ...
Sep 20
Categories: Addictions, Teenage Issues
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Most parents yell at their kids at some point. It often feels like the last option for getting children to pay attention and shape up.
But harsh verbal discipline may backfire. Teenagers act worse if they're yelled at, a study finds.
Sep 18
Categories: Parenting, Teenage Issues
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