Tag: children

Study suggests personal accounts of childhood maltreatment show a stronger association with psychiatric problems compared to legal records

From the King’s College London press release: Personal accounts of childhood maltreatment show a stronger association with psychiatric problems compared to legal proof that maltreatment occurred, according to a new… Read more »

Study links sleep difficulties to altered brain development in infants who later develop autism

From the University of Washington press release: Infants spend most of their first year of life asleep. Those hours are prime time for brain development, when neural connections form and… Read more »

Study suggests screen time hasn’t affected kids’ ability to read facial cues

From the UCLA press release: Are today’s children, who grew up with mobile technology from birth, worse at reading emotions and picking up cues from people’s faces than children who… Read more »

Study links chronic illness in childhood to higher rates of mental illness

From the Queen Mary University of London press release: Children with long-term health conditions may be more likely to experience mental illness in early adolescence than healthy children, according to… Read more »

Study suggests a child’s home environment can impact the risk of developing depression

From the American Psychiatric Association press release: New research, published online today in the American Journal of Psychiatry, finds that children’s rearing environment has a meaningful impact on their risk for… Read more »