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Cognitive behavioural therapy can alter brain activity in kids with anxiet
Updated : 7 months, 4 weeks ago IST
The findings shed light on the brain mechanisms that underpin the acute effects of cognitive behavioural therapy in treating one of the most common mental diseases.
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Use of social media among youth is linked with unhealthy behaviours
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
Researchers found that youths who use social media are more likely to engage in dangerous health behaviours, such as increased use of alcohol, drugs, and tobacco, antisocial conduct, risky sexual behaviour, and gambling.
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Research: Cognitive behavioural therapy delivered via smartphone app impro
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
People with Type 2 diabetes who were given a smartphone app that delivers personalized cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) saw significantly greater reductions in their blood sugar and less need for higher doses of diabetes medications at six months compared with those who only received stan
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Birth weight could help identify children at higher risk of psychological
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
New research from RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences has found that babies with larger birth weights tend to have fewer mental health and behavioural issues in childhood and adolescence.
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High School programs linked to lower substance use, better health behaviou
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
New UCLA-led research finds that a college preparatory program for youth experiencing educational inequities that operates in about 13% of U.S public high schools has a positive effect on students' social networks, psycho-social outcomes, and health behaviors.
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Study asserts changes in children's behaviour can predict midlife health b
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington [US], April 23 (ANI): The Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences at the University of Jyvaskyla and the Gerontology Research Center (Finland) investigated the paths from childhood socioemotional behaviour to midlife health behaviour decades later.
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Changes in children's behaviour can predict midlife health behaviors: Stud
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington [US], April 21 (ANI): A recent study by the Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences at the University of Jyvaskyla and the Gerontology Research Center (Finland) investigated the paths from childhood socioemotional behaviour to midlife health behaviour decades later.
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Study shows when and why people divulge other people's secrets
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Arizona [US], February 3 (ANI): Secrets, those dastardly details you confide in another person that come back to haunt you, are a social phenomenon among humans. Some would say it's part of our social fabric, to talk about others, to gossip, to divulge another person's deepest secret.
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Inaugural public health survey of new dads to help improve outcomes for en
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Chicago (Illinois) [US], January 22 (ANI): It is a known fact that while federal legislation requires tracking and reporting data on maternal health behaviours around childbirth, fathers tend to get overlooked in these public health efforts to improve maternal and infant outcomes.
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Study explores how homeschooling affects adolescents' character, health, w
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], November 11 (ANI): Compared to peers at public schools, adolescents who are homeschooled are more likely to report greater character strengths and fewer risky health behaviours later in life, but are less likely to attain a college degree.
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Involuntary job loss affects BMI, health behaviours in males: Study
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Canterbury [UK], September 26 (ANI): Involuntary job loss affects the Body Mass Index (BMI) of men and behaviours differentially across the life cycle, suggests the findings of a new study by the University of Kent.
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Study suggests BMI, health behaviours in males affected by involuntary job
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Canterbury [UK], September 23 (ANI): The findings of a new study by the University of Kent suggest that involuntary job loss affects the Body Mass Index (BMI) of men and behaviours differentially across the life cycle.
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