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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation recently funded an analysis that concluded that about 75% of all Americans are currently overweight or obese. In 2021, over 15 million children and young ...

While state governments are taking steps to mitigate the negative effects of social media, the federal government must take a ...

An increasing number of studies have revealed the negative impact drinking alcohol can have on a teenage brain, including ...

Introduction: Studies suggest an involvement of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) in reward prediction and processing, with reward-based learning relying on neural activity in response to ...

I am inundated with Instagram ads telling me that “ADHD is not laziness, it’s a trauma response.” Well actually, it's neither ...

New Hanover County Schools are rolling out federally-funded training to help teachers better understand and manage the stress ...

This study aimed to determine whether acute Tai Chi practice enhances emotional memory and prefrontal cortex activation compared to cycling and a control condition. Methods: Using a within-subjects ...

Parenting tip: If you want to communicate better, embrace the fact that your teen does not live on the same timeline as you ...

"A really big question that, at least I ask myself, is, 'How do we become who we are?'" University of Virginia psychology graduate student Olivia Allison said. New work she is conducting in UVA's Baby ...

And as a result, the prefrontal cortex doesn’t have to work very hard. Dr Marci likens this part of the brain to a muscle that you either “use or lose” – and by distracting a child ...