National Survey Tracks Rates of Common Mental Disorders Among American Youth
Only about half of American children and teenagers who have certain mental disorders receive professional services, according to a nationally…
Children
Behavioral Training Improves Connectivity
Children with poor reading skills who underwent an intensive, six-month training program to improve their reading ability showed increased connectivity…
Children’s calorie expenditure increase during active video games
CHICAGO—Children burn more than four times as many calories per minute playing an active video game than playing a seated…
Statin is not helpful for children with learning disabilities
CHICAGO—Use of simvastatin by children with neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1), a genetic disorder that can cause learning disabilities, did not…
Risk factors for development of eating disorders
CHICAGO—Risk factors for binge eating and purging may vary between boys and girls and by age group in girls, according…
Early vision screening associated with better eyesight in children
CHICAGO—Children who screen positive for amblyopia, reduced vision in one eye, before age 2 appear to have better visual outcomes…
Programs show benefits in maintaining weight loss
CHICAGO—Children who lost weight were able to keep it off more effectively by participating in maintenance treatment programs that emphasized…
Behavioral changes effective for weight loss
CHICAGO—Children who lost weight were able to keep it off more effectively by participating in maintenance treatment programs that emphasized…
Thirty percent of children take dietary supplements
CHICAGO—More than 30 percent of American children age 18 and younger take some form of dietary supplement, most often multivitamins…
Treatment for heart failure not beneficial for children
CHICAGO—Preliminary findings indicate a heart failure medication used by adults, carvedilol, may not significantly improve heart failure outcomes for children…