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A study published this month in the Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology found that aerobic activity sessions before school helped children with ADHD with their moods and attention spans. http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/831942 http://www.boston.com/health/2014/09/16/bdc-exercise-adhd/gm789BOrMjs1FRl4jizJlJ/story.html

New research has found another revealing difference in the brains of kids with ADHD. The results, published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, point to a reduced ability among children with ADHD to turn on and off the networks inside the brain that are involved in control and attention. The brain […]

Previous research has consistently confirmed that children in married-parent families grow up to be better off financially than the children of single and divorced parents.New research suggests that this is not as much due to having 2 incomes in the family, as previously thought, but may have more to do with have 2 parents with […]

A new study confirms that teenager brains are far more sensitive than adults’ to the immediate effect or reward of their behaviors, so that choices that provide instant gratification are far more rewarding that those with more long term goals: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/magazines/panache/why-teenagers-are-more-impulsive/articleshow/42361707.cms

This article offers some tips for parents http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/parenting/wp/2014/07/18/are-you-raising-nice-kids-a-harvard-psychologist-gives-5-ways-to-raise-them-to-be-kind/