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17 May 2024

What Are Parenting Adolescents and Teens? Know What Expert Wants To Say

Don't automatically categories all of your teens' behaviors into stereotyped narratives about hormonal, rebellious adolescents.

12 Jul 2023

DNA: If not fit...then how will India be hit...how the people of the village got trapped in the web of diseases

DNA: If not fit...then how will India be hit...how the people of the village got trapped in the web of diseases

04 Nov 2022

Research: Screen time is not a problem for teens but disconnection

While many parents and guardians fear that teenagers spend too much time on cell phones, video games, and social media, a researcher from Michigan State University advises against being concerned. Disconnection due to the limited access to the internet is a bigger problem than the screen time.

28 Sep 2021

Instagram is not toxic for teens, says Facebook

Our internal research is part of our effort to minimize the bad on our platforms and maximize the good: Facebook Head of Research, Pratiti Raychoudhury. On September 14, the WSJ published a story on The Facebook reserch findings which suggested Instagram had an extremely damaging effect on teenagers, especially teenage girls. The newspaper said Facebook was well aware of the harm its products were doing to teens

25 Jul 2019

Study shows that hair strand could help combat depression

Researchers looked for potential relationships between the concentration of the stress hormone cortisol in the hair and adolescents` depression symptoms and found a surprising connection.

03 Jul 2019

Jaipur teens tampering with Aadhar details for 'Kabir Singh'

Another student Yuvraaj (name changed) said: "We booked bulk tickets through BookMyShow and surprisingly no one asked about our age or identity proof."

21 Oct 2017

Excessive smartphone use may cause sleep deprivation in teens

Most sleep experts agree that adolescents need nine hours of sleep each night to be engaged and productive students; less than seven hours is considered to be insufficient sleep.

08 Jun 2017

Cannabis use among teens related to attraction to other drugs: Study

A research finds that regular and occasional cannabis use as a teen is linked to a heightened risk of other illicit drug taking in early adulthood. And this pattern is also associated with harmful drinking and smoking

26 Feb 2017

Brain scans play pivotal role in identifying teens at drug abuse risk

Psychologists are aware that kids who score high on tests of novelty seeking are on average a bit more likely to abuse drugs.

17 Jan 2017

Research shows teens losing sleep over social media

Researchers at Wales Institute for Social and Economic Research, Data and Methods (WISERD) in the UK also found that girls are much more likely to access their social media accounts during the night than boys.

10 Sep 2016

Being socially connected may up suicide risk in teens

The homogeneous culture and high degree of social connectedness of a community can contribute to teenage suicide as well as thwart prevention efforts, says a study contradicting popular notions about being socially connected.

08 Sep 2016

Teens less likely to purchase beverages with health warning labels

Soft drinks and other sugary drinks that include health warning labels are less likely to be purchased by teenagers, a study has found.

25 Aug 2016

Teenagers who feel safe at school get higher grades

Feeling unsafe at school may hamper a student's learning potential and also contribute to more emotional problems, warns new research.

01 Jun 2016

Teens heaviest users of cellular data to watch videos: Study

Over a period of four years (2011-15) there has been a 50 per cent drop in the time teens spend watching videos on a TV screen, and in contrast an 85 per cent increase in those viewing videos on smartphones.

05 Apr 2016

Meditation may help teens eat healthy, exercise more

The findings showed that mindfulness-based eating awareness training encouraged teens to eat healthier and exercise more and marginalised their tendency to gain weight.

27 Dec 2015

Teens giving cigarettes, alcohol the go-by for fruits, veggies

The change in attitude can be traced back to stricter attitudes towards drinking and smoking among parents, public health drives and a clampdown on under-age sales by newsagents and off-licences.

19 Dec 2015

Why chronically lonely teens stay lonely

The researchers charted individual trajectories of loneliness based on four annual questionnaires of 730 adolescents in Belgium.

21 Nov 2015

ADHD Meds: A prescription for bullying

Teens and kids, who take drugs like Adderall and Ritalin to treat Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), are twice as likely to be bullied as their peers without ADHD, according to a recent research.

22 Sep 2015

Exercise curbs suicide attempts by bullied teens

Regular exercise results in as much as 23 percent reduction in suicidal thoughts and attempts in bullied students, new research has found.

Anti-depressants

20 Sep 2015

Popular antidepressant neither safe nor effective for teens

Depressed teens shouldn't take the widely used antidepressant paroxetine as it is neither safe nor effective, as per a reanalysis of an influential study originally published in 2001.

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