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When a child receives a mental health diagnosis, whether anxiety, ADHD, depression, or something else, parents often want to know how it will impact their schooling. A new study provides some answers.
When a child receives a mental health diagnosis, whether anxiety, ADHD, depression, or something else, parents often want to know what it means for school. Will their child keep up? Will they fall behind?
A study published this week in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry addresses that question directly, using Finnish national registry data to track what happens to children's school grades in the years after a mental health diagnosis, comparing their academic trajectories with those of peers who received no such diagnosis.
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A major new study has scanned the brains of nearly 10,000 children and tracked them for three years. Its findings reveal which children are most at risk of loneliness, and what can be done to prevent it.
Fish oil reducing aggression. Vitamins outperforming psychiatric medication. The clinical research on whether supplements can benefit children's brains is more rigorous, surprising and revealing than you may think.
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