The Internet: A Brain Changer
In a first of its kind review, published in World Psychiatry -- the world's leading psychiatric research journal, the researchers...
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Phil Harris
May 30, 20192 min read
Poor Impulse Control Mapped in Young Women
Teenage girls with problematic social behavior display reduced brain activity and weaker connectivity between the brain regions...
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Phil Harris
May 30, 20194 min read
Adolescent Brain Development Stifled by Cannabis?
Adolescence is associated with the maturation of cognitive functions, such as working memory, decision-making, and impulsivity control....
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Phil Harris
May 7, 20191 min read
Young People: A Thought Piece for DHI
DHI are celebrating their 20th anniversary of delivering services to vulnerable people and supporting their families. As part of this...
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Phil Harris
May 7, 20191 min read
New Book Chapter: Tackling Causes and Consequences of Health Inequalities: A Practical Guide for Cl
I have just had a chapter on Young People and Complexity accepted for publication in a new book "Tackling Causes and Consequences of...
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Phil Harris
Apr 8, 20192 min read
Severe Psychological Distress Increases Daily Cannabis Use
Daily cannabis use increased significantly from 2008 to 2016 among those with and without past-month serious psychological distress (SPD)...
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Phil Harris
Mar 13, 20193 min read
Young People Need to be Somewheres
In lectures and on this blog I have raised the issue of identity being geographical for some. in the conceptual language of David...
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Phil Harris
Feb 13, 20192 min read
Identity Formation in Early Adulthood Predicts Middle Identity
Identity formation is a major developmental task in adolescence but continues throughout adulthood. Significant individual differences,...
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Phil Harris
Jan 24, 20191 min read
Instadrug?
Technology is changing all our lives and reaches into every aspect of human behavior. This has not only led to the development of new...
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Phil Harris
Jan 9, 20192 min read
Social Mobility: Higher Education Not the Answer
I have suggested for sometime that the primary goal of getting as many young people as possible into higher education would not solve...
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Phil Harris
Jan 9, 20194 min read
Youth Cliques: Has Their Popularity Changed Over Time?
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago, in collaboration with colleagues from the University of Texas at Austin, have found...
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Phil Harris
Dec 2, 20183 min read
Young People In Trouble: Cannabis or Character?
More youth use cannabis than smoke cigarettes in the United States. In other parts of the world, cannabis use has become almost as...
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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 5, 20182 min read
Suicide Prevention is Effective for Young People
A comprehensive Australian study examining the global impact of suicide prevention approaches in young people has found that...
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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
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 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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