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The GN Podcast with Andrew Fuller: Heavy metals, other environmental contaminants, the brain and children
The GN Podcast with Andrew Fuller: Heavy metals, other environmental contaminants, the brain and children

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The GN Podcast with Andrew Fuller: Heavy metals, other environmental contaminants, the brain and children

In this episode: Why you should reach for your vacuum right now! Forever chemicals and the impact on children's brains Behavioural regulation and impact on concentration and learning Host: Andrew Fuller, Clinical psychologist and family therapist, speaker and creator of Learning Strengths Guest: Mark Taylor, Professor; Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Macquarie University [...]

By Generation Next|2022-11-21T13:24:18+11:00March 8th, 2021|Categories: Podcast|Tags: children, cleaning, contaminants, development, dust, environment, podcast, safety, soil testing|0 Comments

Childhood ‘Toxic Stress’ Leads to Parenting Challenges
Childhood ‘Toxic Stress’ Leads to Parenting Challenges

Mental Health & Wellbeing, Science & Research

Childhood ‘Toxic Stress’ Leads to Parenting Challenges

Parents who endured “toxic stress” during childhood may be more likely to have kids with developmental delays and have a harder time coping with their children’s health issues, new research suggests. Adverse childhood experiences, commonly called ACEs, can include witnessing parents fight or go through a divorce, having a parent with a mental illness or [...]

By Generation Next|2018-03-29T14:23:24+11:00March 29th, 2018|Categories: Mental Health & Wellbeing, Science & Research|Tags: child, development, mother, parent, pregnant, research, study, toxic stress, trauma|0 Comments

Don’t Blame Adolescent Social Behavior on Hormones
Don’t Blame Adolescent Social Behavior on Hormones

Mental Health & Wellbeing, Science & Research

Don’t Blame Adolescent Social Behavior on Hormones

Reproductive hormones that develop during puberty are not responsible for changes in social behavior that occur during adolescence, according to the results of a newly published study by a University at Buffalo researcher. "Changes in social behavior during adolescence appear to be independent of pubertal hormones. They are not triggered by puberty, so we can't [...]

By Generation Next|2018-03-26T13:50:04+11:00March 23rd, 2018|Categories: Mental Health & Wellbeing, Science & Research|Tags: adolescence, behaviour, development, hormones, Mental Health, puberty, Social, teen|0 Comments

Here’s How Witnessing Violence Harms Children’s Mental Health
Here’s How Witnessing Violence Harms Children’s Mental Health

Mental Health & Wellbeing

Here’s How Witnessing Violence Harms Children’s Mental Health

When children learn about news like the deadly school shooting that claimed more than a dozen lives on 14 February 2018 in Broward County, Florida, a logical question for them to ask is: Will the same thing happen to me? As researchers and clinicians who have studied the problem of violence over the past three decades, we have [...]

By Generation Next|2018-04-30T16:38:13+10:00February 26th, 2018|Categories: Mental Health & Wellbeing|Tags: anxiety, children, Depression, desensitisation, development, Media, violence|0 Comments

Sleep And Safety: Our Children Have Their Say
Sleep And Safety: Our Children Have Their Say

Mental Health & Wellbeing, Science & Research, Sleep

Sleep And Safety: Our Children Have Their Say

Ringing, pinging devices are eating into children's sleep and it's undermining their happiness, a major new study into the wellbeing of younger Australians shows. And this lack of sleep is associated with them feeling isolated and unsafe in their own homes. The latest 'Happiness Survey' of almost 47,000 children has found that children who regularly [...]

By Generation Next|2021-03-03T18:11:00+11:00October 16th, 2017|Categories: Mental Health & Wellbeing, Science & Research, Sleep|Tags: development, Happiness, health, sleep, technology|0 Comments

Background TV Not Good For Young Children

Even though children may not be watching it, even having a television on in the background may be bad for development, according to a new study. Researchers wrote in the journal Pediatrics children between eight months and eight-years-old are exposed to nearly four hours worth of background TV a day, compared to the 80 minutes [...]

By Dr Ramesh Manocha|2012-10-09T13:32:43+11:00October 4th, 2012|Categories: Mental Health & Wellbeing, Science & Research, Society & Culture|Tags: background TV, development, media exposure, reduce performance, young people|1 Comment