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Thursday, December 04, 2008
Financial Concerns Top List of Holiday Stressors for Women, Families With Children
As reports about the extent of the recession in the United States are released this week, a new poll from the American Psychological Association (APA) finds that more than eight out of 10 anticipate a stressful holiday season and that the economic crisis is impacting women and families most.
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Saturday, July 05, 2008
Family Stress And Child’s Temper Extremes Contribute To Anxiety And Depression In Children
Small children who grow up in a family where the mother has psychological distress, the family is exposed to stress or is lacking social support, are at higher risk of developing anxious and depressive symptoms in early adolescence. Girls are more vulnerable than boys, and very timid or short-tempered children are more vulnerable than others to develop emotional problems.
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Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Looking Inside Kids’ Minds Can Open the Future
Two million American children have been diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, according to the National Institute of Mental Health. It’s so common now that one child in a classroom of 25 or 30 will have the disorder. But parents often struggle a long time to figure out exactly what’s going on in their child’s head. Dr. Fernando Miranda, a neurologist at the Bright Minds Institute in San Francisco, says diagnosing children with behavioral disorders like ADHD and autism without looking at their brains is like trying to diagnose heart problems without actually looking at the heart.
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Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Low cortisol levels found in kids whose mothers show signs of depression
A new study of young children living in extreme poverty found that those whose mothers showed symptoms of depression had low levels of cortisol, a hormone activated during times of stress, compared with children whose mothers did not exhibit depressive symptoms.
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Mother’s Prenatal Stress Predisposes Their Babies To Asthma And Allergy, Study Shows
Women who are stressed during pregnancy may pass some of that frazzlement to their fetuses in the form of increased sensitivity to allergen exposure and possibly future asthma risk.
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Monday, March 24, 2008
Stressed Parents Equals Sick Kids
Stressed parents aren’t just damaging their own health - they may also be making their children more vulnerable to illness.
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Teen Aggression May Really Be a State of Mind
For parents of emotionally combative teens, new research offers a powerful biological reason for all the family feuding—adolescent brain size. A team of Australian scientists has found that when key regions of the brain known for controlling emotions are bigger, boys and girls tend to be more aggressive and more persistent during their fights with Mom and Dad.
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Friday, February 22, 2008
Family context influences stress hormone
Continuous production of the stress hormone cortisol is affected by growing up in difficult situations, a study in Canada found. The study, published in the Archives of General Psychiatry, found 40 percent of differences in cortisol production were genetically determined, but growing up in difficult family circumstances overrode this genetic effect.
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Tuesday, January 01, 2008
For women, marital distress means less relief from stress
That’s the suggestion from a new UCLA study that tracked levels of cortisol, a key stress hormone, among 30 Los Angeles married couples involved in one of our age’s trickiest juggling acts — raising kids when both parents work full time.
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Friday, August 24, 2007
A parent’s depression can weigh heavy on children
A parent’s struggle with stress or depression can lower a child’s quality of life — and it could hinder an overweight youngster’s attempts to lose weight, too, University of Florida researchers say. Parent distress, peer bullying and childhood depression can propel a cycle that makes it more difficult for children to adopt healthier lifestyles.
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Monday, August 20, 2007
Poll: Family Ties Key to Youth Happiness
So you’re between the ages of 13 and 24. What makes you happy? A worried, weary parent might imagine the answer to sound something like this: Sex, drugs, a little rock ‘n’ roll. Maybe some cash, or at least the car keys. Turns out the real answer is quite different. Spending time with family was the top answer to that open-ended question.
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Wednesday, May 02, 2007
Research Demonstrates Link Between Domestic Violence and Asthma
The link between environmental exposures and asthma has been clearly described, but a new study from researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health finds a strong association between domestic violence and asthma. The study raises questions about the role of stress in the development of this common respiratory condition.
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Sunday, April 22, 2007
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Saturday, April 21, 2007
Family turmoil and violence results in stress-induced physical problems in young
Adolescents who are chronically exposed to family turmoil, violence, noise, poor housing or other chronic risk factors show more stress-induced physiological strain on their organs and tissues than other young people. However, when they have responsive, supportive mothers, they do not experience these negative physiological changes, reports a new study from Cornell. But the research group also found that the cardiovascular systems of youths who are exposed to chronic and multiple risk factors are compromised, regardless of their mothers’ responsiveness.
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Thursday, March 15, 2007
Children Under Stress Develop More Fevers
Children whose parents and families are under ongoing stress have more fevers with illness than other children. Published this month in the Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, the study also shows the unanticipated conclusion that children’s natural killer cell function, part of the body’s innate immune system, increases under chronic stress, unlike adults, whose function is decreased.
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