Scientists supported by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) have documented that chronic cigarette smoking during adolescence increases the likelihood that the teens will develop an anxiety...
Tragic events such as school shootings have presented us with images of adolescent aggressive and antisocial behavior. There is a national search for answers. Fortunately, a long-term commitment to basic behavioral research at the National Institute...
Parents can do much to help their teenage sons or daughters through a variety of difficult situations. Depression, violence, substance abuse, and bullying are all serious issues that parents and teens can work together to help resolve. Sometimes,...
According to a study published in the March 2001 issue of Pediatrics, the peer-reviewed scientific journal of the American Academy of pediatrics (AAP), family support and good grades are among the top factors that can offset risks for teen suicide...
The best thing each of us can do to strengthen the lives of our community's children (even those of us who don't have kids of our own or whose kids are no longer of school age) is to make sure we find ways--both big and small--to offer real and...
The modern, systematic study of human intelligence began at the turn of the century with Alfred Binet's attempt to devise a test that could identify slow learners in the Paris Public School system. Today, the uses of intelligence tests (also known...
