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08/05/2018

How to understand and reduce risk

08/05/2018

Teens who spend lots of time using digital devices are prone to psychiatric problems, reports a team of scientists in a new study. Children who are heavy users of digital devices are twice as likely as infrequent users to show symptoms of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), the study fi...

08/05/2018

A major research project highlights that individual behavioral treatment and support for parents who have preschool children with ADHD is significantly better than what is currently routinely offered in Danish Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services.

08/05/2018

This is a very important study if it can be replicated

A new study reports on a group of boys diagnosed with ADHD in childhood (when they were, on average, 8 years old) and followed into adulthood (when they were in their early 40s). The goal was to examine whether boys' characteristics in childhood and adolescence predicted their subsequent school perf...

08/04/2018

An important message for all of us

I most definitely needed to read this tonight. It's so hard to remember this stuff when you feel so...blah. I think I need to read this over and over and over until I can convince myself it's true.

Hope it can help someone else too.

-Kat

05/27/2018

Children and adolescents in high-risk environments more likely to become violent adults

How important is this study in today's society?

Children and adolescents who grow up with one or more of these environmental risk factors are likely to resort to violence, aggression and crime as adults, irrespective of an underlying mental illness.

05/27/2018

Why an upcoming appointment makes us less productive
Study shows an hour seems shorter when there's a task looming

Don't forget to read the last few paragraphs to see what the solutions are to this interesting finding

You've got a full hour until your next meeting. But you probably won't make the most of that time, new research suggests. In a series of eight studies, both in the lab and real life, researchers found that free time seems shorter to people when it comes before a task or appointment on their calendar...

05/27/2018

Why we fail to understand our smartphone use
Checking your phone dozens of times a day indicates unconscious behavior, which is 'extremely repetitive' say psychologists

I think we all will find this research interesting

Checking your phone dozens of times a day indicates unconscious behavior, which is 'extremely repetitive' say psychologists. Existing research is yet to conclude whether people really are 'addicted' to their smartphones due to over reliance on people's own estimates or beliefs. But new research into...

05/27/2018

Early-life obesity impacts children's learning and memory, study suggests
The study found a link between children's weight status in the first two years of life and their school-age performance on cognitive tests

THIS IS STILL ANOTHER REASON AMONG MANY WHY WE HAVEW TO TAKE CHILDHOOD OBESITY VERY SERIOUSLY

A new study found that children on the threshold of obesity or overweight in the first two years of life had lower perceptual reasoning and working memory scores than lean children when tested at ages five and eight. The study also indicated that IQ scores may be lower for higher-weight children.

05/27/2018

DEPRESSION speeds up brain aging, find psychologists
Psychologists have found a link between depression and an acceleration of the rate at which the brain ages

THIS IS STILL ANOTHER REASON WHY WE NEED TO TREAT DEPRESSION EARLY AND THOROUGLY

Psychologists have found a link between depression and an acceleration of the rate at which the brain ages.

01/02/2018

In 2018, the World Health Organization will include "gaming disorder" in a list of mental health conditions in the 11th International Classification of Diseases.

01/02/2018

Video gaming (playing video games) has become a popular activity for people of all ages.