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Prenatal Anxiety Affects Baby’s Immune System

April 27th, 2013
Prenatal Anxiety Affects Baby's Immune SystemBabies whose mothers experienced high anxiety while pregnant had stifled immune responses to vaccinations at 6 months old, according to a new study. However, this lowered ...

Poor Parenting Linked to Increase in Risk of Bullying

April 27th, 2013
Children who are exposed to poor parenting, whether it's abuse, neglect or overprotection, are more likely to experience childhood bullying, according to new research. A meta-analysis of 70 studies of more than 200,000 children ...

School Culture Impacts Student Violence

April 26th, 2013
School Culture Predicts Violence  School violence is not an isolated American concern but a widespread  social problem that threatens the health, achievement, and well-being of ...

Infant Responses May Predict Later Antisocial Behavior

April 24th, 2013
Infant Responses Predict Antisocial Behavior  New research suggests an infant’s response to a scary situation predicts if they will be at risk for conduct disorders later in life. Specifically, scientists discovered infants ...

Autistic Kids May Be Prone to Compulsive Video Gaming

April 22nd, 2013
Autistic Kids May Be Prone to Compulsive Video GamingResearchers discover children and teens with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are more likely to develop problematic video game habits. A University of Missouri researcher found ...

New Research Says Up to 10 Percent of Children Affected by Learning Disabilities

April 20th, 2013
research on learning difficultiesUp to 10 percent of the population is affected by specific learning disabilities, such as dyslexia, dyscalculia and autism, which translates to two or three students in every ...

Past Trauma Can Increase Parents’ Stress at Child’s Cancer Diagnosis

April 14th, 2013
Past Trauma Can Increase Parents' Stress at Child's Cancer DiagnosisWhen the parent of a child with cancer has already experienced a traumatic life event prior to hearing of the child’s cancer diagnosis, he ...

Autistic Kids Tend to Imitate ‘Efficiently,’ Not ‘Socially’

April 9th, 2013
Autistic Kids Tend to Imitate 'Efficiently,' Not 'Socially' Normally, kids copying adult behavior will go out of their way to repeat each and every element of the behavior even ...

New Strategy to Reduce Teen Obesity: Sleep More!

April 9th, 2013
New Strategy to Reduce Teen Obesity: Sleep More!  Talk about a win-win deal: A new study suggests that sleeping an additional hour each night may reduce the prevalence of adolescent obesity. Researchers ...

Tips to Help Dad Bond with Stepkids

April 9th, 2013
Tips to Help Dad Bond with Stepkids Research has lagged on relationship development between stepfathers and stepchildren. And as any stepdad can attest, it’s one thing to win a mom’s heart ...