by admin | Jul 19, 2019 | Anxiety Disorder, Assessment and Diagnosis, Autism, Brain and Behavior, Childhood, Children and Teens, Mental Health and Wellness, Neuropsychology and Neurology, Psychiatry, Research, Tics, Tourette Syndrome
Around 20 percent of kids will develop one or more compulsive tics in their childhood, such as excessive blinking, throat clearing, or shrugging, at some point during childhood. Yet far fewer (only around 3 percent) go on to develop a chronic tic disorder, such as...
by admin | Jul 19, 2019 | Abuse, Advocacy and Policy, Aggression and Violence, Brain and Behavior, Cognitive Difficulty, Domestic Violence, Gender, General, Head Injury, Health-related, Memory and Perception, Mental Health and Wellness, Mental Health Treatment, Neuropsychology and Neurology, oxygen loss, Psychiatry, Psychology, Research, Strangulation, Tbi
In a new community-based study, researchers from Ohio State University and the Ohio Domestic Violence Network found that 81 percent of women who seek help because of intimate partner abuse have suffered a head injury and 83 percent have been strangled. The study,...
by admin | Jul 11, 2019 | Children and Teens, Depression, General, Health-related, Mental Health and Wellness, Parenting, Psychiatry, Psychology, Research
A chaotic household as well as child and parent depression are risk factors for worse kids asthma outcomes in urban minority children, according to a new paper published in the journal Pediatrics. “Higher levels of chaos — lack of organization or set routines, among...
by admin | Jun 12, 2019 | Assessment and Diagnosis, Brain and Behavior, Children and Teens, General, Mental Health and Wellness, Psychiatry, Psychology, Research, Suicide
A new study published in the Canadian Journal of Psychiatry shows a dramatic increase in the number of Ontario teens who presented to an emergency department for teen self-harm between 2009 and 2017. For the study, a team from the Children’s Hospital of Eastern...
by admin | Jun 11, 2019 | Anxiety, Assessment and Diagnosis, Brain and Behavior, Depression, Environment, General, Mental Health and Wellness, Psychiatry, Psychology, PTSD, Research, Sleep, Trauma
Sleep problems appear to be closely linked to mental health problems among natural disaster survivors even two years after the event, according to a new study that surveyed survivors of the 2010 Haiti earthquake. The findings suggest that sleep health should be a...
by admin | Jun 8, 2019 | Advocacy and Policy, Brain and Behavior, Children and Teens, General, Memory and Perception, Mental Health and Wellness, Psychiatry, Psychology, Research, Sleep, Social Psychology, Students, Teens
A new study adds to the growing evidence that teens experience several benefits from later school start times. The findings reveal that, after a Colorado school district changed to later start times, students in middle and high school got more sleep at night, were...
