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Though I personally find it a bit obvious, a team of psychologists from the Kansas State University has recently determined that couple that engage in rewarding conversations experience far less stress and anxiety, as well as increased levels of overall satisfaction.
Team leader Dr. Brenda McDaniel conducted the in... |
10 February 2012
10:55 GMT |
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Google has finally heard the pleas of surprisingly many teens and has opened up Google+ to everyone who can legally join such a site, meaning everyone over 13 years old in most places.But Google is not just opening up the floodgates, it's taken several precautions to ensure that youngsters have a good experience... |
26 January 2012
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According to the conclusions of a new scientific investigation, it would appear that being subjected to regular and online bullying is causing a rise in substance abuse cases in adolescent girls.The mechanism through which this happens is indirect, scientists say. Previous studies have revealed that both boys and gir... |
20 January 2011
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A new PhD thesis defended at University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), recommends starting preventing bad lifestyle habits even before the age of 13.Bad eating habits, alcohol abuse and sedentary lifestyles are all unhealthy life habits that are very tempting ever since the early adolescence, and are very frequent ... |
30 December 2010
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A new study carried out by a team of researchers from Penn State University, the University of Miami, the University of California at San Francisco and the University of Minnesota Medical School, concluded that menthol cigarettes are harder to quit than regular ones, especially for some teenagers and African-America... |
21 December 2010
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A team of researchers from the University of Southampton are currently investigating whether detecting deafness in newborn babies would help future teenagers achieve better language skills.In the 1990s, the same team have been studying the development of a group of children whose deafness was detected at birth, withi... |
9 December 2010
09:42 GMT |
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Adolescents growing up in dangerous neighborhoods and being exposed to violence on a daily basis, adopt a series of coping strategies which influence whether the violence takes place at home, among friends or whether it involves the police, concluded a new study led by the University of Chicago.The leader of the stud... |
3 December 2010
04:47 GMT |
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A new investigation reveals a worrying conclusion about the current trend among American healthcare specialists, which is to prescribe controlled drugs to teens in vast amounts. In the last 14 years alone, the number of prescriptions has nearly doubled, the report shows. The situation is really quite odd, considering... |
2 December 2010
10:36 GMT |
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If adolescents would lower their daily salt consumption by 3 grams, they would decrease the risks of high blood pressure, heart disease and stroke in adulthood, concluded a research funded by the American Heart Association.Teenagers eat more salty foods every day now, reaching an average of 9 grams of salt – or... |
15 November 2010
03:45 GMT |
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A team of researchers at the University of Washington (UW), Seattle Children's, and Group Health, say that the PHQ-9 (Patient Health Questionnaire - 9 item) is a very good screening test for severe depression in teenagers too.Being a teenager is not very easy and sometimes depression comes along the growing up p... |
1 November 2010
03:42 GMT |
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A research carried out by Emmanuel Kuntsche, PhD, of Addiction Info Switzerland, Research Institute, Lausanne, and colleagues, concluded that these past years, cultural and gender-based differences in teen drunkenness have declined.Today, drunkenness has become more common among girls in Eastern Europe and less freq... |
5 October 2010
06:47 GMT |
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Teenagers in developed countries have a more and more sedentary behavior because of television, and the figures explode on weekends, a new study claims. This part of the European HELENA study, focused on the prevalence of sedentary behavior in 3,278 teenagers - 1,537 boys and 1,741 girls aged between 12.5 and 17.5) ... |
18 September 2010
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Scientists from the the University of Toronto and the University of Montreal have carried out an o observational study that showed that smoking can actually increase depressive symptoms in some adolescents. For the study, 662 high school teenagers filled up 20 questionnaires from grades 7 to 11 about their use of cig... |
27 August 2010
10:56 GMT |
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Swedish scientists have associated low bone mineral density with bowel disease in children and adolescents, according to a thesis from the University of Gothenburg (Sweden).This is the first Scandinavian study to investigate on the occurrence of low bone mineral density in children and teenagers with inflammatory bow... |
23 August 2010
06:50 GMT |
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Teenagers part of an online community identify with it almost as much as with their own families, a new international study of teenage community Habbo reveals.Habbo is a very popular teenage virtual world, developed by Sulake Corporation, that has 15 million unique visitors from over 150 countries, every month.The 10... |
23 August 2010
06:18 GMT |
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Binge drinking is considered to be a global public health issue. Authorities around the world are trying to figure out how to stop it, and scientists are conducting numerous investigations into its dangers. But, strangely enough, there have been no studies to quantify the influences of this behavior on teenagers. Thu... |
29 July 2010
17:21 GMT |
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Between drinking because it's “what everybody else does” and not doing it because it damages health, most people follow a pattern: have a drink while you're young and quit later. Scientists at Loyola University Health System have studied this phenomenon and experimented on rats. They concluded t... |
13 July 2010
04:19 GMT |
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As with any new popular technology there are inherent risks associated with the benefits. A new study underlines some of the risks involving social networking especially when it comes to teenagers. The survey published by Common Sense Media, a San Francisco advocacy group, shows that parents underestimate how much ti... |
10 August 2009
09:16 GMT |
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The way teenagers dress at school these days has been much debated in recent years. The need for a uniform or a certain dress code, as well as that of setting some rules as to what is deemed appropriate on school grounds has also been a burning topic, with no definite solution in sight. However, at the Rednock School... |
23 January 2009
13:51 GMT |
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Taking notice of the fact that slogans like "Just say No" are not that effective, scientists decided to turn to teenagers' curiosity towards themselves and their bodies, in an attempt to stop surging alcohol usage in the United States. Currently, drinking is the most widespread vice in the country, with a report... |
4 December 2008
05:38 GMT |
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Expert radiologists will, from now on, have the possibility to treat victims of self-embedding disorder themselves, as new techniques of identifying objects that were inserted under the skin became available. Both X-ray imaging and ultrasonic guidance can be used to remove all sorts of things from the bodies of teena... |
3 December 2008
06:57 GMT |
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New behavioral studies show that violence in teenagers may be a result of their past experiences, in that living in stressful environments and missing the affection of the parents may cause some children to develop deviant behaviors later in life. In families where parents stop providing unlimited affection to their ... |
17 November 2008
08:33 GMT |
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While living inside families offers comfort to both parents and children, it can also be a source of stress, as problems affect all members, not just the adults. Seeing how the current economic crisis places pressure on the working class, in that the number of foreclosures increases, and jobs are jeopardized, it'... |
14 November 2008
05:37 GMT |
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Psychologists say that the network of environmental factors that cause more and more teenagers to commit suicide is far more complex than anyone thought. They base their say on a new scientific study that revealed the important role neighborhoods play in influencing adolescents to develop suicidal thoughts. Daily vio... |
27 October 2008
00:55 GMT |
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We live in an age in which for many of us, life without a mobile phone would be inconceivable. And we're not talking about busy professionals here, who - quite understandably - need to keep in touch with their colleagues and clients. In today's world, many teenagers live in a virtual universe, in which face... |
11 June 2008
16:19 GMT |
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We read about teen violence almost every day - and by the looks of it, this dramatic phenomenon is not going anywhere soon. We often hear representatives of the authorities complaining that the sources of teen violence are difficult to deal with - broken families, poverty, substance abuse - however, scientists have u... |
30 May 2008
09:46 GMT |
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This fall, Hewlett Packard will introduce a completely new line of products primarily targeted at young computer users. According to Ameer Karim, director of HP's future and innovations group, the new computers will be designed by teenagers and will meet youngsters' needs in terms of fashion and functionali... |
17 May 2008
05:41 GMT |
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Hacking into the schools network seems to be a rather usual behavior with students from the United States educational establishments. With an increasing number of students who are capable of breaking into their own school network, one has to wonder about the level of security of these networks. According to the Chica... |
8 May 2008
04:42 GMT |
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