Children's health
13 Feb 2007
Study Shows Active Children Focus Better In School
Children who are active during the school day are more likely to be better focused and more on-task than their more sedentary peers, an East Carolina University researcher has found. In a 12-week study of 62 third and fourth graders at Grifton Elementary School, a team of ECU researchers led…
Blood
01 Feb 2007
Adverse Drug Reactions
Medical health information: Adverse drug reaction to new and mixtures of prescription medicine side effects or adverse prescription drug reactions
Children's health
30 Jan 2007
Bullying Can Be Reduced But Many Common Approaches Ineffective
School-based programs involving multiple disciplines reduce bullying in elementary school, junior or senior high schools according to a systematic review of over 2000 studies on bullying published in English. The review was published in the January 2007 issue of the Archives of Paediatrics & Adolescent Medicine. "We found bullying can…
Anatomy
11 Jan 2007
Brain anatomy
The human brain may be classified into several parts, including the cerebellum, parietal lobe, frontal lobe, temporal lobe and occipital lobe.
Children's health
08 Jan 2007
Should Antidepressant Drugs Be Banned In Children?
A review by David Cohen (Universite Pierre et Marie Curie) addresses a hot topic in clinical practice: the prescription of antidepressant drugs in children and adolescents in the current issue of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics. European and US pharmaceutical agencies have recently warned against the use of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors…
Children's health
08 Jan 2007
Psychologist Helps Children With ADHD Make Friends
Many children with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder suffer through a range of problems, from poor grades to poor relations with parents and teachers. But more than half of these children also have serious problems making friends. Too often they live lonely lives, never learning to develop the social skills they need to…
Men's Health
29 Nov 2006
Hallucinations
Medical information about visual hallucination induced by psychotic hallucinogenic drugs and other caused of hallucinations of the mind.
Children's health
07 Nov 2006
Fathers influence child language development more than mothers
In families with two working parents, fathers had greater impact than mothers on their children's language development between ages 2 and 3, according to a study by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Frank Porter Graham (FPG) Child Development Institute and UNC's School of Education. Researchers videotaped…
Children's health
18 Oct 2006
Early Family Experience Can Reverse the Effects of Genes, UCLA Psychologists Report
Early family experience can reverse the effect of a genetic variant linked to depression, UCLA researchers report in the current issue of the journal Biological Psychiatry. Among children from supportive, nurturing families, those with the short form of the serotonin transporter gene (known as 5-HTTLPR) had a significantly reduced risk…
