News tagged with early adulthood
Benefits of high quality child care persist 30 years later: research
Adults who participated in a high quality early childhood education program in the 1970s are still benefiting from their early experiences in a variety of ways, according to a new study.
Jan 19, 2012 |
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Gene hunters find cause of rare movement disorder
(Medical Xpress) -- After a challenging two-decade hunt, scientists have pinpointed the gene responsible for a rare disease that causes seizures in infancy and sudden, uncontrollable movements in adolescence and early adulthood.
Dec 16, 2011 |
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Young adults drop exercise with move to college or university: researchers
Regular exercise tends to steeply decline among youth as they move to university or college, according to a study by researchers at McMaster University.
Dec 15, 2011 |
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The big picture: Long-term imaging reveals intriguing patterns of human brain maturation
Neuroimaging has provided fascinating insight into the dynamic nature of human brain maturation. However, most studies of developmental changes in brain anatomy have considered individual locations in relative isolation from ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Dec 07, 2011 |
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Study examines family formations in young adulthood
For many, an important marker of adulthood is forming a family, whether it's having a child, getting married or cohabiting with a romantic partner. Researchers at Bowling Green State University's National Center for Family ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Dec 05, 2011 |
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Kawasaki disease linked to wind currents
Kawasaki Disease (KD) is a severe childhood disease that many parents, even some doctors, mistake for an inconsequential viral infection. In fact, if not diagnosed or treated in time, it can lead to irreversible heart damage. ...
Nov 10, 2011 |
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Scientists chart gene expression in the brain across lifespan
The "switching on" or expression of specific genes in the human genome is what makes each human tissue and each human being unique. A new study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, the Lieber ...
Oct 28, 2011 |
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Hard times during adolescence point to health problems later in life
Being hard up socially and financially during adolescence and early adulthood takes its toll on the body, and leads to physiological wear and tear in middle aged men and women, irrespective of how tough things have been in ...
Oct 27, 2011 |
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Found in the developing brain: Mental health risk genes and gender differences
Most genes associated with psychiatric illnesses are expressed before birth in the developing human brain, a massive study headed by Yale University researchers discovered. In addition, hundreds of genetic differences were ...
Oct 26, 2011 |
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The benefits of marriage
Marriage can potentially help reduce crime by enabling people to develop greater self-control, according to a new study examining changes in marital status, self-control and marijuana use between late adolescence ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Sep 26, 2011 |
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Preterm birth associated with higher risk of death in early childhood, young adulthood
In a study that included more than 600,000 individuals born in Sweden between 1973-1979, those born preterm (less than 37 weeks gestation) had a higher risk of death during early childhood and young adulthood than persons ...
Sep 20, 2011 |
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Four blood pressure changes in a lifetime
(Medical Xpress) -- Changes in blood pressure occur during four phases in a person's lifetime, new research led by the Medical Research Council Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing, University College London ...
Jun 30, 2011 |
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Study finds pregnancy safe in multiple sclerosis
Canadian researchers have found that maternal multiple sclerosis (MS) is generally not associated with adverse delivery outcomes or risk to their offspring. Full findings now appear in Annals of Neurology, a journal publis ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jun 27, 2011 |
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Blueberries help lab rats build strong bones
Compounds in blueberries might turn out to have a powerful effect on formation of strong, healthy bones, if results from studies with laboratory rats turn out to hold true for humans.
Jun 21, 2011 |
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Weight at 18 linked to cancer in men decades later
(Medical Xpress) -- Public health researchers, based at the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, have identified a link between men being overweight or obese at age 18 and death from cancer in later life. The study ...
Jun 16, 2011 |
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