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Family-based association study of early growth response gene 3 with child bipolar I disorder
Publication year: 2012Source: Journal of Affective Disorders, Available online 25 February 2012Amelia L. Gallitano, Rebecca Tillman, Valentin Dinu, Barbara Geller
[Review] Child maltreatment: variation in trends and policies in six developed countries
We explored trends in six developed countries in three types of indicators of child maltreatment for children younger than 11 years, since the inception of modern child protection systems in the 1970s. Despite several policy initiatives for child protection, we recorded no consistent evidence for a decrease in all types of indicators of child maltreatment. We noted falling rates of violent death in a few age and country groups, but these decreases coincided with reductions in admissions to hospital for maltreatment-related injury only in Sweden and Manitoba (Canada).
Norwegian success in creating an artificial child's voice
“Synthesized speech has grown more and more similar to human speech. Yet children communicating via a speech device are still forced to use a synthetic adult voice,” explains a researcher developing tools to assist disabled persons.
Child Abuse and Psychiatric Illness
Child abuse is a nonspecific risk factor associated with an increased risk for a range of psychiatric and substance use disorders. The paper in this issue by Dannlowski et al. () adds to a growing body of literature on the mechanisms by which adverse early experiences confer vulnerability to psychiatric illness. The paper by Nikulina et al. () delineate further genetic and other factors that account for individual differences in the outcomes of adults who were abused as children.
Pain at age eight as a predictor of antidepressant medication use by age 24: Findings from the Finnish nationwide 1981 birth cohort study
Publication year: 2012Source: Journal of Affective Disorders, Available online 6 February 2012Terhi Luntamo, Andre Sourander, Lauri Sillanmäki, David Gyllenberg, Minna Aromaa, ...
Mom's love good for child's brain
School-age children whose mothers nurtured them early in life have brains with a larger hippocampus, a key structure important to learning, memory and response to stress. The new research, by child psychiatrists and neuroscientists, is the first to show that changes in this critical region of children’s brain anatomy are linked to a mother’s nurturing.
Spotting dyslexia before a child starts school
Children at risk for dyslexia show differences in brain activity on MRI scans even before they begin learning to read, finds a new study. Since developmental dyslexia responds to early intervention, diagnosing children at risk before or during kindergarten could head off difficulties and frustration in school, the researchers say.