May 20th, 2013

Emerging research shows that exergaming -- using active console video games that track player movement to control the game (e.g., Xbox-Kinect, Wii) -- can increase ...
May 18th, 2013

New research shows that youths who first drink during puberty are at greater risk for developing later alcohol problems.
"Most ...
May 17th, 2013

Most moms and dads don't want to be known as "helicopter parents" when their kids go away to college.
Still, a new study ...
May 15th, 2013

A new study funded by the National Institutes of Health discovers a pregnant mothers' exposure to the flu may have extreme mental health ...
May 15th, 2013

While it has been known that breastfeeding enhances child development and protects from disease, a new study now suggests breastfeeding can also convey positive mental development for infants.
Specifically, breastfeeding may ...
May 12th, 2013

More than 80 percent of youth who die by suicide had some form of contact with the health care system in the ...
May 11th, 2013

Women who engage in "fat talk" -- self-disparaging remarks made in relation to eating, exercise or their bodies -- are less liked by their peers, according to a ...
May 10th, 2013

Parents who are addicted to drugs or alcohol are more than twice as likely to have children who develop depression in adulthood, according to a report ...
May 9th, 2013

Children with autism can detect simple movements twice as fast as typically developing children, and this hypersensitivity to motion may provide insight into the workings behind the ...
May 8th, 2013

Among teens with substance use disorders, those who also have social anxiety disorder begin using marijuana at a mean age of 10.6 ...