Tag: "
parents
"
Risk Factors
May 4, 2016
Anxiety, Depression, Unstable Mood, and Low-Level Mania Best Predictors of Bipolar Disorder
Researchers are looking for better ways of predicting whether children at risk for bipolar disorder will go on to develop the illness. A 2015 study by David Axelson and colleagues in the American Journal of Psychiatry repo...
Risk Factors
January 15, 2016
Diagnosing Childhood Bipolar Disorder: Mom Knows Best
In a talk at the 2015 meeting of the International Society for Bipolar Disorders, researcher Eric Youngstrom showed that mothers’ evaluation of their children’s psychiatric symptoms was more valid than both teacher ratings...
Biology
May 4, 2012
Parental Nurturing Linked to Greater Hippocampal Volume in Young Children
An article published by Medscape reports that in a recent study by Dr. Joan Luby of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, non-depressed preschool children whose parents showed more nurturing behaviors duri...