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← Older postsStudy Confirms Link Between School Climate And Violence
During the last twenty years there has been extensive research on identifying risk factors of school violence. Especially … Read More »
Posted in Culture & Society, Science | Tagged enforcement, school climate, school violence, study | Leave a commentMild iodine deficiency in womb associated with lower scores on children’s literacy tests
Children who did not receive enough iodine in the womb performed worse on literacy tests as 9-year-olds than … Read More »
Posted in Science | Tagged children, iodine, literacy, low scores, study, womb | Leave a commentBiological clue to why women live longer than men
Women live longer than men partly because their immune systems age more slowly, a study suggests. As the … Read More »
Posted in Science | Tagged immune systems, Japanese scientists, lifespan, men, study, women | Leave a commentPhthalates: Study links chemicals widely found in plastics, processed food to elevated blood pressure in children, teens
Now, new research published this Wednesday in the Journal of Pediatrics suggests that certain types of phthalates could … Read More »
Posted in Mental Health & Wellbeing, Science | Tagged blood pressure, children, food production, Pediatrics, phthalate, Teenagers | Leave a commentIodine deficiency during pregnancy may adversely affect children’s mental development
A study of around 1,000 UK mothers and their children, published in The Lancet, has revealed that iodine … Read More »
Posted in Mental Health & Wellbeing, Science | Tagged children, Iodine deficiency, mental development, mothers, pregnancy, study | Leave a commentFrontal Lobes May Not Matter for Brain Power
“Probably the most widespread assumption about how the human brain evolved is that size increase was concentrated in … Read More »
Posted in Science | Tagged anthropology, Brain Power, frontal lobe, human behavior, human brain, language, thought | Leave a commentModern life causing dementia earlier
Researchers found a sharp rise in the deaths from dementia and other neurological disease in under-74s, and believe … Read More »
Posted in Mental Health & Wellbeing, Science | Tagged brain diseases, dementia, environmental changes, neurological deaths, neurological disease, social changes | Leave a commentSix myths about vaccination – and why they’re wrong
Recently released government figures show levels of childhood vaccination have fallen to dangerously low levels in some areas … Read More »
Posted in Culture & Society, Science | Tagged anti-vaccine, childhood vaccination, public health, school, vaccine debate | Leave a commentFemale and younger athletes take longer to overcome concussions
“We need to raise awareness that yes, female athletes do get concussions,” she said. “Too often, when we … Read More »
Posted in Mental Health & Wellbeing, Science | Tagged brain damage, coaches, concussions, female athletes, high school athletes, Parents, second-impact syndrome | Leave a commentFrequent Exposure to Violent Games May Have ‘Desensitising Effect’
A new study led by Malena Ivarsson from the Stress Research Institute at Stockholm University (Stockholm, Sweden) comes … Read More »
Posted in Culture & Society, Science | Tagged Desensitising Effect, Malena Ivarsson, overexposer, Stress Research, violance | Leave a comment ← Older posts