When is a Child an Adult?
When does childhood end? That's the question international researchers are asking as they chart age cut-offs for paediatric services...
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Phil Harris
Aug 30, 20193 min read
Parental Burnout
This is a timely study after the end of the long summer holiday. In lectures I often discuss how parenting is bi-directional. Parenting...
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Phil Harris
Jun 10, 20193 min read
Are Traumatized Children Cortisol Tolerant?
Experiences such as poverty, residential instability, or parental divorce or substance abuse, also can lead to changes in a child's brain...
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Phil Harris
May 13, 20199 min read
Attachment: When is Good Enough Good Enough?
What really matters in caring for babies may be different than commonly thought, says Lehigh University researcher Susan S. Woodhouse, an...
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Phil Harris
Apr 8, 20192 min read
Poverty Written into Your Genes?
A new Northwestern University study challenges prevailing understandings of genes as immutable features of biology that are fixed at...
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Phil Harris
Mar 12, 20193 min read
Babies Recognize Friendly Verses Strangers Laughter
Ever intrigued by the concept of laughter as alliance and power, I was interested to read this recent study that showed babies can detect...
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Phil Harris
Feb 11, 20193 min read
Grandma Theory Works-With Limits
Humans are unusual in that women go through menopause and stop reproducing long before reaching the end of their life expectancy. This is...
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Phil Harris
Jan 30, 20192 min read
Babies Detect Individual Words at 3 Days Old
Babies are not blank slates. They come with a lot of pre-programming that is awaiting activation. A great example of this is language. ...
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Phil Harris
Dec 2, 20184 min read
ADHD Gene Breakthrough
A major international collaboration headed by researchers from the Danish iPSYCH project, the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT,...
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Phil Harris
Nov 29, 20182 min read
Parietal Brain Protects Kids from Neighborhood Violence Stresses
Neighborhood violence has been associated with adverse health effects on youth, including sleep loss, asthma and metabolic syndrome. Yet...
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Phil Harris
Nov 14, 20181 min read
Autism Study Show Male Trait Bias
A large scale study has found that people with autism show higher male trait scores in systemic thinking over empathetic thinking, above...
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Phil Harris
Nov 12, 20182 min read
Babies Laughter Different from Adults
Few things can delight an adult more easily than the uninhibited, effervescent laughter of a baby. Yet baby laughter, a new study shows,...
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Phil Harris
Nov 5, 20183 min read
Adversity: Growing Up Fast
In previous blog entries I shared research that showed that children and young people who were exposed to childhood trauma demonstrated...
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Phil Harris
Nov 5, 20183 min read
Three New Types of Depression Identified
According to the World Health Organization, nearly 300 million people worldwide suffer from depression and these rates are on the rise....
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Phil Harris
Oct 21, 20183 min read
Give Thanks to... Gratitude
The professional youth field is very focused on the idea of low self-esteem being a driver of so many of young people's problems. Young...
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Phil Harris
Oct 19, 20182 min read
Education Not Income Predicts Child Health
Parents educated beyond high school invest more in family health care, reducing the likelihood of adverse medical conditions despite...
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Phil Harris
Oct 19, 20183 min read
University Attendance Predicted by Genes
Research from King's College London has shown for the first time that genetics plays a significant role in whether young adults choose to...
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Phil Harris
Oct 18, 20183 min read
Babies Learn Better Together
A huge gap in thinking about child development is peer-to-peer relationships. Humans are pack animals and children immediately identify...
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Phil Harris
Oct 15, 20184 min read
Gene-Parent Interactions Predict Aggression
In lectures on child development I stress the role of gene-parent interactions in shaping a child's behavior. This is an interesting...
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Phil Harris
Oct 5, 20182 min read
More on Sleep and Adolescent Risk Taking
Adolescents require 8-10 hours of sleep at night for optimal health, according to sleep experts, yet more than 70 percent of high school...
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