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Showing posts with label children. Show all posts
Showing posts with label children. Show all posts
Monday, April 18, 2016

ADHD and Me

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Hi. I’m Jai. I’m 8 years old. This is my story. My doctor says I have an illness. I don’t feel sick. But I do know that grown-ups around me...
Wednesday, May 28, 2014

ADHD Diet - practical family meals

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Practical ADHD diet for the family ADHD Diet A high-protein, low-sugar ADHD diet can help improve ADHD symptoms in children. Pare...
Saturday, November 23, 2013

Mental Health and Academic Performance in Children

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10yr window to treat mental health problems affecting academic performance Mental health & academic performance Mental healt...
Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Conduct Disorder and Behaviour Problems in Children

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   Conduct disorder and behaviour problems in children  make the news when a 5-year old or a grandmother is killed while extorti...
Tuesday, July 31, 2012

ADHD treatment improves academic performance

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ADHD treatment improves academic performance ADHD medication enhances academic performance when started early. ADHD drug treatm...
Thursday, May 31, 2012

Cannabis, teenagers and schizophrenia

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Cannabis or marijuana use by teenagers and adolescents is highly associated with the onset of psychosis and schizophrenia. Cannabis goes...
Monday, April 30, 2012

Aggression in children - need for parental intervention

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Aggression is uncommon in school children and should be addressed A Pune teenager was kidnapped and murdered by his school friends a...
Thursday, April 5, 2012

Healthy Baby Contests - judging psychological development objectively

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Psychological development is a key aspect of any ‘Healthy Baby Contest”. Pathfinder Clinic judged the psychological development of tod...
Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Mental health checklists and screening tests for rampaging bus drivers

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Checklists and psychological screening questionnaires for mental illness are effective, easy to use and widely available. Pune was shock...
Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Dyslexia - Difficulty with Reading, Maths & Spelling

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Difficulty with reading, spelling and maths is rampant among Indian students. Two recent reports have highlighted this academic under...
Saturday, November 12, 2011

Talk - not TV - for your toddler

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Turn off the television and speak to your toddler . Talking is the best thing you could do today for your child’s psychological developme...
Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Learning Disability - academic underachievement

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Impaired spelling and arithmetic in Standard 3 boy with Learning Disorder Learning Disorder (LD) is characterised by impaired acquis...
Thursday, September 8, 2011

Parental supervision of children and adolescents

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Parental supervision protects boisterous children from injury: More time unsupervised corresponds to more injury  “To my parents we we...
Saturday, July 16, 2011

Inclusive education for children with autism in Pune

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Inclusive Education Inclusive education for children with autism and other developmental disabilities is now approaching reality in Pune...
Thursday, June 30, 2011

Neurotoxic effects of alcohol on the adolescent and young adult brain

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(or why the 25 year age-bar on alcohol consumption could be reasonable) Does alcohol have specific neurotoxic effects on the adolesc...
Sunday, June 19, 2011

School bullying

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Bullying by children in schools has serious mental health effects on the victim and the bully. Up to 25% of high school students repor...
Monday, February 7, 2011

Social Networking - Psychological Effects on Teenagers

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Parents worry that social networks like Facebook could have harmful psychological effects on their children. They seek consultation for ...