When does childhood end? That's the question international researchers are asking as they chart age cut-offs for paediatric services...

Adolescents place a lot of emphasis on popularity and they are keenly aware of the difference between being liked and being popular. If...

Studies over the past 20 years have found a correlation between the number of adverse childhood events (such as death or divorce) and...

How people behave in one situation often tells us how they will act in others. A shy introvert in one place, for example, isn't likely to...

In marriage, conflict is inevitable. Even the happiest couples argue. And research shows they tend to argue about the same topics as...

Mindfulness can be seen as a panacea for all things these these days. However, it needs to be subjected to more rigorous study in order...

Rehabs are often believed to ineffective or only as effective as community based treatments. There are a lot of myths about rehabs and...

Across the substance misuse and housing fields there has been increasing interest in Trauma Informed approaches. I recently came across...

The ODHIN Trials are a large scale study exploring the effectiveness of brief interventions in primary care for alcohol problems. As...

Opioid-related deaths continue to take the lives of thousands in the U.S. each year, with non-fatal opioid overdoses as a significant...

The expression of many genes that have previously been associated with autism is abnormal also in violent psychopathy, a new study shows....

Individuals with many different psychiatric disorders have a higher tendency to choose smaller, immediate rewards over larger, delayed...

Alcohol is not the disinhibitor that people assume it is. Alcohol changes your perception of time- where once you start to drink, you...

This is a timely study after the end of the long summer holiday. In lectures I often discuss how parenting is bi-directional. Parenting...

Think your new romance will be much different from your last one? According to new University of Alberta research, it's not likely. An...

Researchers from the VA Connecticut Healthcare System, Yale University School of Medicine, the VA San Diego Healthcare System, and the...

How many times have you wished you could give your younger self a piece of advice? Robin Kowalski, professor in Clemson University's...

It is a common statement regarding substitute opiate prescribing. But sometimes in hospital settings alcohol dependent individuals are...

RMIT University researchers have used data from mobile phone accelerometers -- the tiny sensors tracking phone movement for step-counting...

A new paper that challenges widely held ideas about autism has attracted comments from more than 30 scholars across the disciplines of...