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Digging Deeper into the Question of Concussions |
| Wednesday, August 15, 2007 By TheEditorInChief |
Category: Our Psychology
The National Football League must be sighing with relief now that pre-season games are underway and the league's on-field product can take some of the attention away from the troubling off-field devel... more
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Hispanics Turn to Drugs After Assimilation |
| Tuesday, August 14, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Addiction
Political demagogues often drum up opposition to Hispanic immigration by warning that many such immigrants will bring drug problems with them into America. It might seem logical to assume that recen... more
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Dietary Training Might Work After All |
| Tuesday, August 14, 2007 By Blog Meister |
Category: Eating Healthy/ Eating Disorders
In sharp contrast to the diminishing returns of the taxpayer-funded nutrition campaigns aimed at American pre-teens, a longitudinal Finnish study shows that early intervention can in fact lead to bet... more
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Dietary Training Might Work After All |
| Tuesday, August 14, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Diet , Aging and Eating Disorders
In sharp contrast to the diminishing returns of the taxpayer-funded nutrition campaigns aimed at American pre-teens, a longitudinal Finnish study shows that early intervention may indeed ... more
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With Science Impuning Their Products' Value, Disney Goes on the Defensive |
| Tuesday, August 14, 2007 By TheEditorInChief |
Category: Parenting
Baby Einstein, the purveyor of the eponymous children's educational products, may have finally met its "Unified Field Theory." In this case however, the failure is not so much a lack of theoretical kn... more
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College Students Bias Psychological Research |
| Tuesday, August 14, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Our Psychology
Last Friday, the Wall Street Journal reopened one of the more contentious debates about psychological research. This debate is not about any particular results or theories, but rather center... more
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Year-Round School Yields Uncertain Benefits |
| Monday, August 13, 2007 By Blog Meister |
Category: Classroom Issues
The year-round school debate has made its quiet way around the educational sphere for more than two decades, with proponents and detractors lining up to make their respective points at the end... more
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Obesity Lowers Attendance Rates |
| Monday, August 13, 2007 By Blog Meister |
Category: Eating Healthy/ Eating Disorders
In yet another unfortunate example of obesity's pervasive influence, statistics reveal that higher BMI numbers coincide with declining school attendance records. Notably overweight children are simpl... more
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Obesity Lowers School Attendance Rates |
| Monday, August 13, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Diet , Aging and Eating Disorders
In yet another unfortunate example of obesity's pervasive influence, statistics reveal that higher BMI numbers coincide with declining school attendance records. Notably overweight children ar... more
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AADT's Session Wrap-Up |
| Monday, August 13, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Our Psychology
Last week, we covered a number of interesting reports and stories that examined age and gender differences when it comes to issues of mental health. We discussed the difference between late and early ... more
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Justice System Inching Toward Empathy for Mentally Ill |
| Monday, August 13, 2007 By TheEditorInChief |
Category: Our Psychology
Last week, Time shined its spotlight on the subject of mental illness and the criminal justice system. This is a topic that we've explored several times before, notably with the release of DOJ statist... more
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Insight into Keeping Depressed Patients in Treatment |
| Friday, August 10, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Depression
Antidepressant treatment has a high chance of eventually sending depression into remission, but many patients do not have the patience to wait for "eventually." More than one-fourth of patients drop... more
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Tax Hikes Lead to Smoking Decline |
| Friday, August 10, 2007 By TheEditorInChief |
Category: Addiction
Various doctors and scientists have opined for years on the best method to get people to quit smoking. It turns out that government may have had the answer all along. Research discussed in a USA Today... more
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"Fat Hormone" Strikes Back |
| Friday, August 10, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Diet , Aging and Eating Disorders
British researchers have again refined our understanding of the uncertain relationship between weight gain and the hormone leptin. By examining patients who suffer from an exceedingly ra... more
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Alcohol Abuse Trends Vary by Gender |
| Thursday, August 09, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Addiction
Excepting individuals who are in recovery from alcoholism or who abstain from drink for religious reasons, the majority of American adults (and adolescents) drink alcoholic beverages at least ... more
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Researchers Find Correlation Between Breast Augmentation, Suicide |
| Thursday, August 09, 2007 By TheEditorInChief |
Category: Depression
Plastic surgery is often portrayed as a vice of the vainglorious or rich and famous, but in reality there were over 1.9 million cosmetic surgical procedures performed last year. Statistics compiled by... more
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Chat Room Therapy Proves Effective |
| Thursday, August 09, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Our Psychology
As Internet tools become increasingly more advanced and widespread, their potential for therapy becomes harder to overlook. We have covered successful employments of telepsychiatry as the sole method ... more
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Research Explores Early, Late-Onset Autism |
| Wednesday, August 08, 2007 By Blog Meister |
Category: Autism, Asperger's, PDD
Autism is very rarely diagnosed before the age of 3. But previous studies have suggested that it may, in fact, begin to manifest itself much earlier in some infants, and current research divides the c... more
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Both Bully and Victim Suffer Later in Life |
| Wednesday, August 08, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Parenting
"Give me your lunch money; I’ll need it to pay for therapy later." Bullies have always stalked school hallways, but only recently are officials and parents realizing how harmful it can be for the well... more
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Research Explores Early, Late-Onset Autism |
| Wednesday, August 08, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Parenting
Autism is very rarely diagnosed before the age of 3. But previous studies have suggested that it may, in fact, begin to manifest itself much earlier in some infants, and current research divid... more
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Binge Drinking Preferences Defined by Age |
| Wednesday, August 08, 2007 By TheEditorInChief |
Category: Addiction
It's become something of a trope in contemporary literature and film: a young teen sneaking his first drink from his father's liquor cabinet, grimacing mightily at the shocking taste of a liquid adult... more
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Problems and Progress in Afghanistan |
| Tuesday, August 07, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Stress
We have closely covered damaging effects of post-traumatic stress disorder facing U.S. soldiers returning from the battlefield. Inadequate mental care has failed many of these veterans, and has done s... more
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McDonald's Branding Makes Food More Tasty to Tots |
| Tuesday, August 07, 2007 By TheEditorInChief |
Category: Parenting
Some sobering news arrived today for groups working to fight childhood obesity. By the age of three most children seem to have fully internalized the marketing messages of the world's largest fast foo... more
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Chemical Realities of ADHD Become Clearer |
| Tuesday, August 07, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
The neuro-chemical dopamine, an active agent in almost every mental illness, has been further implicated in facilitating the development of ADHD and the subsequent behaviors of tho... more
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Autism Often More Challenging for Girls |
| Tuesday, August 07, 2007 By Blog Meister |
Category: Autism, Asperger's, PDD
Autism, in its myriad forms, makes for a challenging diagnosis. The social and professional lives of those affected by even the more workable forms of the disorder will inevitably be compromised. Wh... more
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