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A new study suggests that exposure to secondhand smoke and roadway traffic may be tied to increased body mass index in children and adolescents.

Teens’ online behaviors may create real-life problems like relationship abuse and negative thoughts on body image, according to two new studies.

Frightening experiences do not quickly fade from memory. A team of researchers under the guidance of the University of Bonn Hospital has now been able to demonstrate in a study that the bonding…

What are the brain factors and behaviors that put teens at risk of alcohol use and abuse before they start drinking? Researchers explore this question in four new abstracts. One provides new evidence that adolescents at higher risk of alcoholism have r…

Two or more serious hits to the head within days of each other can interfere with the brain’s ability to use sugar – its primary energy source – to repair cells damaged by the injuries, new research suggests.

NIH study in rodents identifies a pathway that starts with glutamate and ends with activation of dopamine reward systemDetails of the role of glutamate, the brain’s excitatory chemical, in a…

Making friends is often extremely difficult for people with social anxiety disorder and to make matters worse, people with this disorder tend to assume that the friendships they do have are not of…

“I am the smartest kid in class.” We all want our kids to be self-confident, but unrealistic perceptions of their academic abilities can be harmful.

Lawmakers think it’s time to warn people about the detrimental health effects of drinking soda much like cigarette labeling did in the

1960′s.