Schools serving the less advantaged and minority children teach as much to their students as those serving more advantaged kids, according to a new nationwide study. Researchers found that looking at how much students learn during the school year, the difference between schools serving mostly ...
Date Posted: October 12, 2019
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Mental illnesses like depression and suicide ideations are more likely to occur in young adults if they were bullied as a child.
Oct 11
Categories: Bullying, Suicide Prevention
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Compared to dining alone, eating with others causes us to eat more, whether we are doing so consciously or not. This can be explained by a social process known as social facilitation, which is governed by a mechanism which we have inherited from our ...
Oct 10
Categories: Other
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Dog ownership may be associated with longer life and better cardiovascular outcomes, especially for heart attack and stroke survivors who live alone.
Oct 9
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MIT professors have found a strong relationship between students' grades and how much sleep they are getting. What time students go to bed and the consistency of their sleep habits also make a big difference.
Oct 7
Categories: Child Development
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Positive relationships with parents will improve self-esteem of children, hence enabling them to build healthy relationships with their peers in the future, especially during adolescence.
Oct 4
Categories: Self-Esteem
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A 40-minute call every month from a non-clinical professional may help to improve depressive symptoms for individuals who are caring for their loved ones who are dementia patients.
Oct 3
Categories: Dementia, Depression
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Schools that emphasizes more play, hands-on learning and students helping each other in kindergarten improves academic outcomes, self-control and attention regulation. This curriculum further enhances a child’s joy in learning and teachers’ ...
Sep 28
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Migraines can be a real headache, disrupting the lives of more than a billion adults globally. Studies looking into triggers for migraines have found that the amount of caffeine ingested has a complicated relationship with the experience of migraine ...
Sep 26
Categories: Other
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Meta-analysis conducted by researchers found that adults who were born pre-term are less likely to form romantic relationships than full-term peers
Sep 25
Categories: Child Development
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A new study from the University of Kent seeks to make use of mobile games to detect signs of cognitive decline so as to identify the onset of cognitive disorders at an early stage.
Sep 24
Categories: Cognitive Problems Amnesia / Dementia
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The presence of adult social support is linked to significantly fewer occurrences of sexual violence, youth violence and bullying, and to more positive behaviours, including school engagement and future aspirations. This study suggests that ...
Sep 23
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A child’s attachment and ability to regulate emotions are built on a reasonably good interaction with their parents. The importance of the quality of interaction is emphasized during the first few years, when the child’s brain is still ...
Sep 21
Categories: Child Development
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Playing Mahjong, a popular game amongst Chinese, is likely to help reduce symptoms of depression as it serves as a form of social participation for many older adults.
Sep 20
Categories: Depression
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Conflicts often arise between couples, regardless of how happy they are in the relationship. However, the difference between couples who are happy in their relationship and those who are unsatisfied is the way they resolve these conflicts. Happy ...
Sep 19
Categories: Couple Counseling
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For decades, there has been evidence that active learning – classroom techniques designed to help students to participate in the learning process – produces better educational outcomes for students at virtually all levels
Sep 18
Categories: Child Development
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