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A new study by Warren Brodsky, of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, found that when teenagers listen to rap and rock music while they drive are more likely to commit a greater number of errors and miscalculations on the road – and young men make more frequent and serious mistakes than young women.  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2402152/Teenagers-listen-rap-rock-music-drive-higher-risk-involved-crash.html#ixzz2dBvSXDUJ

A new study published in Springer’s Journal of Youth and Adolescence. found that teens who play violent video games are not likely to become more violent or partake in anti-social behavior. http://www.springer.com/about+springer/media/springer+select?SGWID=0-11001-6-1433942-0 http://psychcentral.com/news/2013/08/27/in-new-study-video-games-not-tied-to-violence-in-high-risk-youth/58934.html  Reference: Ferguson C.J, Olson C. (2013). Video game violence among ‘vulnerable’ populations: the impact of violent games on delinquency and bullying among […]

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A recent study conducted by Jennifer Watling Neal, an assistant professor of psychology at Michigan State University, found that children who were more accurate in their assessment of their number of friends or who underestimated their quantity of friends compared to peer report were more aggressive. When kids say they have more friends than their […]

Half the nation’s overweight teens have unhealthy blood pressure, cholesterol or blood sugar levels that put them at risk for future heart attacks and other cardiac problems, new federal research says: http://health.heraldtribune.com/2012/05/21/a-study-of-overweight-teenagers-finds-reasons-to-worry/ New research, to be unveiled today at a European conference in Serbia, has found that obese adolescents with no symptoms of heart disease […]