A recent study involving French-speaking children investigated the effects of birth order and gender of older siblings on the language abilities of young children. Results show that children who have older brothers tend to develop weaker language abilities, compared to the children who have older ...
Date Posted: August 30, 2019
Categories: Child Development, Other
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With the myriad of entertainment made available on social media platforms, social networking applications serve as both stress-inducing entities as well as a distraction from stressful content. As such, individuals hop from one site to another, ...
Aug 29
Categories: Other, Stress Management
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There are two new studies from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) that indicate that practicing mindfulness from a young age, in particular, in middle schoolers, helps their mental health and academics. The research shows that mindfulness ...
Aug 28
Categories: Child and/or Adolescent Issues
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Mothers undergo steps to protect the new-born’s brain, mitigating risk before birth is critical. Some new-borns, such as those with intrauterine growth restriction, are at heightened risk. Intervening before birth to aid in protecting the new born ...
Aug 28
Categories: Child Development
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Caltech researchers have now determined that strong, stable memories are encoded with ‘teams’ of neurons all firing in synchrony, providing redundancy that enables these memories to last for a period. This research can help to understand how ...
Aug 28
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Many psychiatric medications cause patients to gain weight, which could be especially problematic for individuals who are dealing with both mental disorders and weight-related comorbidities. A research conducted recently has found that while ...
Aug 27
Categories: Other
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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 ...
Aug 27
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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