Exploring the brain chemistry of people at risk for alcohol disorders
... is to see whether young individuals such as young teens who show hyporesponsiveness are more likely to develop alcohol problems compared with those who do not show this trait. In addition, it is important to determine whether it is specifically parental alcoholism that is associated with hyporesponsivene...Parenting News: More than one hour of TV a day may lead to violence, Science study suggests
... television per day were more likely in their late teens and early twenties to engage in aggressive acts against other people, researchers found. This was especially true for boys. Young adults--especially women--who watched two or more hours of television per day were also more prone to violence. Our find...Sexual revolution and teenagers is explored in ASAs magazine, Contexts
...s. But, is the sexual revolution really over? Are teens returning to conservative sexual values? Are we wi...al activity, claims of a sexual conservatism among teens is somewhat exaggerated if not misinterpreted. Several rigorous studies indicate that the number of...Body piercing may not be so cool after all
... on 4,500 adolescents aged 12 to 21 and found that teens with body piercings are more likely to smoke cigarettes, use drugs and exhibit other types of unhealthy behavior. Study findings were presented at the Society of Adolescent Medicine's annual meeting in Boston. "Mouth piercings and smoking combined c...Seeing movie stars smoke makes teens more vulnerable to tobacco use
...ds who smoke. Because only northern New England teens participated in the study, Sargent avoids making any general recommendations concerning movie content or teen movie selection. Before that can be done, he cautions, his groups findings need to be confirmed in samples that include more urban and mino...Parents can help black teen girls talk about condom use
...lasses, in Birmingham, Alabama. One quarter of the teens reported have a past sexually transmitted infection and more than half had been or were currently pregnant. The majority of the girls, 82 percent, reported having sex solely with a steady partner over the previous six months. Parents who are willing ...Many obese youth have condition that precedes type 2 diabetes
...ted their study to determine if obese children and teens have impaired glucose tolerance, which, in adults ...abetes. "We are seeing young people in their late teens who are already developing the complications of type 2 diabetes," said Dr. Kaufman. Type 2 diabetes ...School-based program effective in lowering teens' HIV risk
...at a successful HIV education program that teaches teens about which behaviors put them at risk and how to ...tencies in the peer-educators own behavior. While teens already in intimate relationships may have been tentative about introducing the idea of condom use t...Mothers attitudes toward childrens eating linked to childrens obesity
...e growing prevalence of obesity among children and teens has prompted health experts to call the problem an epidemic. Today, about one of every four American children is considered obese. Children who are obese tend to become obese adults, and obesity is associated with numerous health concerns such as car...Tax increases can cut the number of habitual teen smokers
...y to smoke a pack or more a day when compared with teens in the low-tax areas. Teens in areas with middle-o... likely that there are further differences between teens who smoke one pack of cigarettes per day and those who smoke two packs per day, they say. Overall, t...Study on teen licensing: N.C. crashes involving 16-year-olds drop dramatically
...y Safety Research center indicate that parents and teens alike endorse GDL. In telephone interviews with 60...what approved of GDL, and 80 percent of the states teens gave the same assessment. In an issue of interest to states still considering a GDL program, the st...How 'negative emotionality' can make you feel sick
..., San Diego. "Early and protracted alcohol use by teens can have both short and long term health effects. For example, in our studies of youth evaluated over a six-year period, we found that respiratory, and accident and trauma injuries, were particularly more prevalent among youth with alcohol use disor...Teens' second pregnancy rates lower with long-term contraceptives
...for the future. As part of the program, the teens were encouraged to choose a birth control method d...sult of birth-control failure, but were due to the teens discontinuing use of their chosen birth control method. In the case of Norplant, this means they had...USC study shows teens with type 1 diabetes already face clogging arteries
...of the artery wallwas significantly greater in the teens with diabetes. They also found that those with greater IMT tended to have high levels of certain lipids in the blood: apolipoprotein B (apoB), a structural component of cholesterol; low-density lipoprotein (or LDL, the so-called "bad" cholesterol); ...12-hour ADHD drug as effective as thrice daily doses
... The problems get worse as they get older, because teens don't want their friends to see them taking medication." The trial was conducted with 68 children between the ages of 6 and 12 who already were taking a version of methylphenidate for ADHD. The double-blind design involved three dosing regimens: im...Smoking prevention programs may miss minority teens
...eers smoked. By comparison, 61 percent of white teens were susceptible to smoking and 58 percent of African American teens were susceptible. White teens estimated that 43 percent of their peers smoked, while African America...Training for doctors improves screening for risk-taking in teens
...ildren in their teenaged years can be prevented if teens avoid dangerous risks and habits. A University of ...ng annual medical exams can increase the number of teens who are screened for several risky behaviors by an average of 16 percent. As a result, in the three ...UNC study shows family-directed program can reduce adolescent tobacco, alcohol use
...cco among adolescents by about 25 percent in white teens for at least a year and possibly a lot longer, they say. When all teens in the study were included, the reduction was 16.4 percent. The effort also helped discourage al...Teenagers, drinking and driving: a quick trip to the grave
...stic about the finding concerning the sub-group of teens who were drinking less than one drink per week at the time of the program. "I think it's important that the prevention program seemed to work best among the group that had not yet started to drink," Shope said. "This is a typical finding in preven......recent research using MRI has found that alcoholic teens may have shrinkage of a brain part - called the hi...studies comparing thinking and memory abilities in teens with and without drinking problems," Tapert continued, "and found that remembering information, solv...