From the Boston Children’s Hospital press release via EurekAlert!: Children with serious anger problems can be helped by a simple video game that hones their ability to regulate their emotions, finds a pilot study at…
From the UC Davis press release: Parents consistently overestimate their children’s optimism and downplay their worries, according to new research by psychologists at the University of California, Davis, Center for Mind and Brain. The findings…
From the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia press release via EurekAlert!: Parents with a higher number of stressors in their lives are more likely to have obese children, according to a new study by pediatric researchers.…
From the Public Library of Science press release via ScienceDaily: Children with autism have difficulty identifying inappropriate social behavior, and even when successful, they are often unable to justify why the behavior seemed inappropriate. New…
From the Springer Science+Business Media press release via ScienceDaily: The experience of being bullied is particularly detrimental to the psychological health of school girls who don’t have social support from either adults or peers, according…
From the Stanford University press release by Bjorn Carey via ScienceDaily: If a 7-year-old is breezing through the “Harry Potter” books, studies indicate that he or she will be a strong reader later in life.…
From the University of Tennessee at Knoxville press release via ScienceDaily: Children who play on playgrounds that incorporate natural elements like logs and flowers tend to be more active than those who play on traditional…
From the University of Rochester press release via EurekAlert!: For the past four decades, the “marshmallow test” has served as a classic experimental measure of children’s self-control: will a preschooler eat one of the fluffy…
From the Kennedy Krieger Institute press release via EurekAlert!: A new study published today in the journal Pediatrics (Epub ahead of print) found that nearly half of children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are reported…
From the University of Miami press release via EurekAlert!: Approximately 19 percent of children with a sibling diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) will develop Autism due to shared genetic and environmental vulnerabilities, according to…