Research Topic 1: Who Needs Interventions? A 45 minute test given at age 3 can predict which children will grow up to consume a larger share of society’s resources, finds an analysis in Nature Human Behavior. Researchers analyzed more...
SAD DAY FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION IN THE UNITED STATES: The U.S. House of Representatives has introduced BILL 610. This bill will effectively start the school voucher system to be used by children ages 5 to 17, and starts the...
To treat brain disorders like autism, scientists increasingly are targeting a different part of the body: the gut. Imbalances in the gut microbiome ― the community of trillions of bacteria living in the digestive tract ― have been linked...
Research Topic 1: The depression rate among teen girls in the United States has risen by 37 percent in the past decade, finds a study in Pediatrics. Researchers examined data from participants in the 2005 to 2014 National Surveys...
ABSTRACT Parents, please let your psychiatrists and pediatricians see this research. INTRODUCTION: Data from an EEG is not commonly used by psychiatrists to plan treatment and medication. However, EEG abnormalities such as isolated epileptiform discharges (IEDs) are found to...
Research Topic 1: Empathy Around the World On a list of the world’s most empathetic countries, the United States ranks seventh out of 63 according to a study in the Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. Researchers surveyed 104, 365 adults...
Do you remember a teacher who changed your life for the better? Many people do, and scores of studies suggest that positive student-teacher relationships are one of the best predictors of children’s academic success. But young children with Autism...
Research Topic 1: Boys who grew up in warm families feel more secure in their romantic relationships as adults and into their 80s, finds research in Psychological Science. A Harvard study examined data from a six-decade longitudinal study on...
Research Topic 1: Newborn Language Infants born into families that speak tonal languages have more melodically complex cries, according to research published in both the Journal of Voice and Speech, Language and Hearing. The researchers compared cries of German...
Warm parenting can buffer tweens and teens from harmful effects of daily stress, according to a study in Health Psychology. Researchers collected daily telephone reports and saliva samples from 132 children and teens, ages 9 to 17, over a...