Longitudinal cohort study
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Day-time naps promote vocabulary growth in early childhood
Napping is at least as important, if not more so, than night-time sleep when it comes to vocabulary learning in early childhood. Find out why.
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Time spent awake during the night in infancy is a marker for cognitive trajectories
This article is a summary of the Original Article in the JCPP: Infant wake after sleep onset serves as a marker for different trajectories in cognitive development – by Pisch et al.
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Children with a language disorder are vulnerable to sexual abuse
Preliminary data suggest that children with language disorder may be at an increased risk of child sexual abuse (CSA),1,2 but few have studied the CSA experiences, disclosure patterns or reactions to disclosure in these children.
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Police contact during adolescence can delay female psychosocial maturation
Over the past 30 years, the rate of female juvenile arrests in the USA has almost doubled. Despite this rapid increase, most research into juvenile delinquency has primarily focused on males.
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The trajectories of depressive symptoms expressed in early childhood differ between boys and girls
A study by Diana Whalen and colleagues at Washington University has used latent class analysis (LCA) to identify and define the trajectories of latent classes of depressive symptoms in early childhood.
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Genetic factors influence the relationship between the home environment and onset of depressive symptom
Clinical depression is prevalent in adolescence, but how depression emerges and the nature of the early risk factors is unknown. Insight has now come from a study performed by researchers at King’s College London.
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Accelerated cortical thinning correlates with early signs of depression
The brain undergoes structural changes as it develops over childhood, but whether abnormal structural changes are associated with emerging depressive symptoms in adolescence is unknown. Now, a longitudinal study that enrolled 205 participants aged 8-25 years without signs of depression has used magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to monitor these brain changes over adolescence.
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Persistent picky eating predicts pervasive developmental disorders in children
Picky eating — characterized by food refusal, unwillingness to try new foods or eating a limited variety of foods — affects 14-50% preschool children and is often considered by clinicians as a normal phase of child development.
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The family environment mediates risk of self-harming
Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) constitutes any deliberate physical injury to oneself that is not life-threatening. It is a behaviour that commonly starts during adolescence. Childhood family adversity (CFA) is associated with NSSI, but the risk pathways between CFA and NSSI are unclear.
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Early ASD intervention promotes academic achievement
Rigorous screening for learning difficulties is required for adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), as a significant minority of affected individuals with average cognitive skills show academic delays, according to a new study.
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