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The United States government would get a better bang for its health-care buck in managing the country's most prevalent childhood disabilities if it invested more in eliminating socio-environmental risk factors than in developing medicines. That's the key conclusion of Prevention of Disability in Children: Elevating the Role of Environment, a new paper co-authored by a Simon Fraser University researcher. The paper is in the May issue of the Future of the Children journal, which is produced...
Ostracism or being bullied by peers has more of an effect on emotional well-being than medical condition The challenges that come with battling a chronic medical condition or developmental disability are enough to get a young person down. But being left out, ignored or bullied by their peers is the main reason youths with special health care needs report symptoms of anxiety or depression, according to a study to be presented Sunday, April 29, at the Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS)...
A new imaging study has reportedly discovered a link between diminished activity in part of the brain with the likelihood that a teenager will start smoking, drinking, or abusing drugs. The research, said to be the largest imaging study of the human brain ever conducted, was completed by an international team of scientists including Robert Whelan and Hugh Garavan of the University of Vermont. The researchers looked at nearly 1,900 14-year-old participants, and discovered that many of the...
SHERMAN OAKS, Calif., April 25, 2012 /PR Newswire-USNewswire/ -- PREP. LAUNCH. ELEVATE. - A Conference Supporting Teens & Young Adults in Their Transition to Independence, will be held on Friday, May 11, 2012 at the American Jewish University in Los Angeles. The conference, generously sponsored by Advance LA, is an innovative program of The Help Group, which provides individualized support services including one-on-one life skills coaching and workshops for teens and...
New research from UC Davis and Washington State University shows that PCBs, or polychlorinated biphenyls, launch a cellular chain of events that leads to an overabundance of dendrites -- the filament-like projections that conduct electrochemical signals between neurons -- and disrupts normal patterns of neuronal connections in the brain. "Dendrite growth and branching during early development is a finely orchestrated process, and the presence of certain PCBs confuses the conductor of that...
Together with child and adolescent psychiatrists, researchers from the University of Copenhagen have just completed an extensive report which reviews the studies which have been done so far on the significance of diet for children and young people with ADHD. The report shows that there are potential benefits in changing the diets of children with ADHD, but that key knowledge in the area is still lacking. The comprehensive report covers the scientific literature on the significance of diet...
Infographic, Online Developmental Screening Tool to Help Make the Early Years Count CHICAGO, April 23, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, Easter Seals released an infographic on a crisis we as a nation are facing: every year, more than one million kids enter school with an undiagnosed disability. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110401/MM76153LOGO) The Week of the Young Child, sponsored by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC), aims to...
A new approach to investigating hard-to-find chromosomal abnormalities has identified 33 genes associated with autism and related disorders, 22 for the first time. Several of these genes also appear to be altered in different ways in individuals with psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia, symptoms of which may begin in adolescence or adulthood. "By sequencing the genomes of a group of children with neurodevelopmental abnormalities, including autism, who were also known to have...
Getting an autism diagnosis could be more difficult in 2013 when a revised diagnostic definition goes into effect. The proposed changes may affect the proportion of individuals who qualify for a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder, according to a study by Yale Child Study Center researchers published in the April issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. The proposed changes to the diagnostic definition will be published in the fifth edition of...
NASHVILLE, Tenn., April 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- April is Autism Awareness month and a new report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicates that the neurodevelopmental disorder impacting social interaction, communication and behavior affects an estimated 1 in 88 children and 1 in 54 boys in the United States. Amidst these disturbing statistics is an exciting program making audiences in Music City aware that there is hope for children with autism to shine! SENSE...
