For parents of college freshmen, this time of year can be unsettling, even traumatic, as their sons or daughters leave home. “Parents can expect some transition and a range of emotions regardless of which child is going off to college,” Mark Thompson, director of Colgate University’s Counseling and Psychological Services in Hamilton, New York.
Many pregnant teenage girls have unrealistic views of how their lives will be with a new baby, a new study finds.
Adults with a history of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) often suffer from multiple psychiatric problems during their lives including depression, anxiety and substance use, according to a study.
There is no known single cause for autism, but it is generally accepted that it is caused by abnormalities in brain structure or function. Brain scans show differences in the shape and structure of the brain in autistic versus non-autistic children.
Groups of immigrant mothers from Japan and South America knew less about child development than did their European American counterparts, according to a study by researchers at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development of the National Institutes of Health.