In contrast, Ernst et al. (2005) and Galvan et al. (2006) (when reward magnitude was high), for example, showed that adolescents "over"activate this region in response to receiving a reward, supporting hyperfunctionality.
With a threefold increase in weight problems among American children and adolescents over the past three decades, they said, doctors who operate on younger patients are already facing the same issues.
Even though F.D.A. doctors said in 2011 that studies showed that it was safe to sell Plan B, the most common emergency contraceptive, to adolescents over the counter, the administration refused to approve the practice.
As a New York City school psychologist who has worked with immigrant children and adolescents over the last 20 years, I believe that the extent to which a child can recover from the traumatic loss of a parent largely depends upon the surviving parent's capacity for emotional contact.
There has been a significant increase in the prevalence of obesity among children and adolescents over the last few decades.
The general purpose of this study was to explore the measurement of life satisfaction in older adolescents over time using a nationally representative sample.
The objective of this study was to examine longitudinal and secular trends in fruit and vegetable intake among two cohorts of Minnesota adolescents over the period 1999 2004.
This prospective longitudinal multicenter study examined tracking of bone measures in children and adolescents over 6 years to sexual and skeletal maturity.
However, only one youth violence prevention program includes community youth service as an intervention, as a result of which self-reported violent behaviors among urban adolescents over a 6 month period declined (O'Donnell et al. 1999).
The second study investigated the efficacy of oral rizatriptan (5 and 10 mg) and the consistency of the response over two treated migraine attacks in children and adolescents over 6 years of age.
Purpose: To compare pregnancy incidence between HIV infected and HIV uninfected adolescents over a 3-year period and to characterize factors that differentiate pregnant from nonpregnant HIV infected females.
