News tagged with bulimic behavior
Black girls are 50 percent more likely to be bulimic than white girls
Mar 18, 2009 |
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An important new study challenges the widespread perception that bulimia primarily affects privileged, white teenagers such as "Gossip Girl" character Blair Waldorf, who battled bulimia on the show earlier this season.
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Does this make me look fat?
Jul 01, 2008 |
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The peer groups teenage girls identify with determine how they decide to control their own figure. So reports a new study by Dr. Eleanor Mackey from the Children's National Medical Center in Washington DC, and her colleague ...
Eating disorder Web sites not harmless
Dec 08, 2006 |
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Pro-eating disorder Web sites claiming to help adolescents with eating disorders can do more harm than good, a California university study found.
The developing child: Rating aggressive and delinquent behavior in pre-adolescence
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 19, 2009 |
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In a study published in an upcoming issue of The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry researchers show that over reactive parenting, such as heavy criticism or yelling as a response to a child's negative behavior, can pr ...
Exposure to young triggers new neuron creation in females exhibiting maternal behavior
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Dec 17, 2009 |
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Maternal behavior itself can trigger the development of new neurons in the maternal brain independent of whether the female was pregnant or has nursed, according to a study released by researchers at Tufts University's Cummings ...
Study shows link between working memory and reactive parenting
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Dec 08, 2009 |
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Any parent knows that sometimes maintaining your cool with misbehaving children is a challenge. We all have times when we get frustrated or angry and lash out at someone without thinking. A new study by psychologists at ...
Testosterone does not induce aggression
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Dec 08, 2009 |
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New scientific evidence refutes the preconception that testosterone causes aggressive, egocentric, and risky behavior. A study at the Universities of Zurich and Royal Holloway London with more than 120 experimental subjects ...
Study shows dream-enacting behavior is common in healthy young adults
Dec 01, 2009 |
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A study in the Dec.1 issue of the journal Sleep shows that dream-enacting behaviors are common in healthy young adults, and the prevalence of specific behaviors differs between men and women.
Negative emotions outweigh intent to exercise at health clubs
Dec 17, 2009 |
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Time and time again, it has been documented that regular exercise has many health benefits including lowering risks associated with the comorbidities of obesity. With only 30% of Americans trying to lose weight meeting the ...
Cell phones to provide picture of human interaction
Nov 24, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Cell phones to their ears, a team of research participants will report their interpersonal interactions in real time to provide a better view of human behavior thanks to a $1 million grant from the National ...
One Can Act Without Group Support; Even in the Bacterial World
Dec 08, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A single bacterium can act alone, performing the same kinds of actions that a group normally does. The behavior of that bacterium can be manipulated at the cellular level. That’s the intriguing ...
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