An angry child may take a toll on a parent’s patience, but according to a Canadian study, it could lead to something even more serious. New data suggests that the more aggressive children are, the more likely they are to have health problems as they grow older. Researchers looked at data
Month: November 2011
A new technology can help determine who is most at risk for suicides and help reduce the risk of suicide attempts. According to a recent study published in the American Journal of Psychiatry, the suicide-screening tool, called the Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale (C-SSRS), pinpoints the threshold at which a person’s suicidal thoughts are
A study of more than 300 California mental health providers found that many patients are not receiving care in a timely manner, which could spell bigger troubles for the rest of the country. As USA Today reports, the survey found that many patients are forced to wait for mental health
The National Center for Veterans’ Studies revealed earlier this year that there is an alarmingly high suicide risk among war veterans in college. A report from the Department of Veterans Affairs put the plight of our nation’s veterans further into perspective, with data showing that approximately 18 veterans commit suicide
Despite increased instances of cyber bullying making their way across social networking sites, a new study from the Pew Internet & American Life Project found that most teens view these sites as “mostly kind” spaces. Although 88 percent of the teens who were surveyed admitted having witnessed mean or cruel
A new study from the Autism Center of Excellence looking into the cellular makeup of children with autism might give insight as to how the disorder forms. The center’s researchers discovered that the brains of autistic children have more neurons in their prefrontal cortexes than children without autism: “The autistic children
Mentoring programs are a great way to lend support to youths who need it, but the question of their effectiveness over time still remains. Through a study involving 70 existing evaluations of mentoring programs, co-author David DuBois found that while mentoring does seem to help improve youths’ test scores, there’s little
We are still be one year away from the 2012 presidential election, which, if any of the recent data is accurate, promises to be a contentious one. But as The New York Times reports, today’s local elections will cause voters to experience stress. Multiple studies have confirmed that voters experience
A new study suggests that there might be a link between children with behavior problems and the fact that their fathers are suffering from depression. Previous research has found that children’s brains can develop differently if their mother is depressed or stressed while pregnant, but this newly released study revealed that
Previous studies have linked America’s black population with higher instances of medical problems , such as high blood pressure, obesity, cardiovascular problems, poor self-reported health and premature disease-related disability when compared with other races. But, according to preliminary epidemiological findings for a new study, when it comes to mental health and occurrences of