Tag: kids

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 theĀ American Journal of Psychiatry, finds that children’s rearing environment has a meaningful impact on their risk for… Read more »

Study suggests children who have difficult relationships with their moms are clingy towards teachers

From the New York University press release: Children who experience “dependent” or clingy relationships with their preschool teachers tend to also have difficulties in their relationships with their mothers finds… Read more »

Study suggests children prefer storybooks that explain why and how things happen

From the Frontiers press release: Children have an insatiable appetite to understand why things are the way they are, leading to their apt description as “little scientists.” While researchers have… Read more »

Study suggests time on screens has little impact on kids’ social skills

From the Ohio State University press release: Despite the time spent with smartphones and social media, young people today are just as socially skilled as those from the previous generation,… Read more »