Posts Tagged ‘teen brain’
Family Separation Alters Electrical Activity in Teen Brain: Follow-up study on Romanian Orphans
The federal government has reported that nearly 3,000 children, as of January 2019, were forcibly separated from their parents migrating across the US border with Mexico and put into detention shelters or foster care. Much of what scientists know about how brain development in children is impaired by adverse early life experience comes from studies on…
Read MoreSmoking Pot as a Teen a Major Risk Factor for Schizophrenia
The scientific evidence linking cannabis use in adolescence to schizophrenia in adulthood is now so strong that the general public must be alerted. This was the pronouncement of researchers from Germany and England speaking October 9, 2017, at the World Psychiatric Association meeting in Berlin. “There is no doubt,” concludes Sir Robin Murray, Professor of…
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