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Survey on 12,000 secondary school-aged students (12-18Y) shows that although many adolescents are spending considerable time gaming (at least 3.5hours/day),it is not having a negative impact on the wellbeing and 44% of ‘heavy’ gamers reported higher wellbeing than those who play less or don’t play
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LGB Youth More Than Twice as Likely to Attempt Suicide Than Heterosexual Peers. Sexual abuse had the strongest influence on suicidal thoughts and attempts among gay and lesbian youth, while sexual dating violence had the biggest impact on bisexual adolescents.
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Danish study found that children who have expressed a desire at the age of 11 to be a different gender enter puberty earlier than their peers. In the study, both birth-assigned boys and girls with a previous expressed desire to change gender entered puberty around two months earlier than their peers
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People who post stories marked false by Snopes on Reddit fall into five groups: Reason to Disagree, Changed Belief, Steadfast Non-Standard Belief, Sharing to Debunk, and Sharing for Humor. Reducing misinformation requires different approaches for each group.
dl.acm.orgSubmitted by asbruckman t3_yu22hj
Major political and societal events can have dramatic impacts on psychological health. Scientists looked at how these changes in behavior may have affected mood and well-being of U.S participants, they found significant links between sleep and drinking, stress, negative mood, and depression.
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Adding fluoride to water supplies may deliver a modest benefit to children’s dental health, finds an NIHR-funded study. But, the benefits are smaller than shown in previous studies - carried out 50 years ago - when fluoride toothpaste was less available in the UK.
nihr.ac.ukSubmitted by Gallionella t3_yylrk3
Just one day of a high-fat diet is all that it takes to cause stress in the gut, at least in mice. Within the first 24 hours of the changed diet, the animals’ metabolism altered to accommodate the new abundance of fatty acids, and cells lining the intestines began to proliferate at higher rates.
nature.comSubmitted by the_phet t3_yxlktu