Sentences with phrase «behavioral studies from»

I have a Master's degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and a Bachelor's degree in Social and Behavioral Studies from George Fox University.

«Behavioral studies from mobile crowd - sensing: Smartphone monitoring has become a boon for scientists studying human behavior and factors influencing stress.»

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Additionally, the study recommended the military pre-screen all troops prior to their deployment to Guantanamo to identify pre-existing behavioral health conditions in order to prevent «those at increased risk for negative behavioral health outcomes from being assigned» to the base.

Working with a third - party clinical testing group, Neba studied 275 children and adolescents ranging in age from 6 to 17 years old, all of whom exhibited signs of attention or behavioral concerns.

To date, results from several longitudinal studies indicate that e-cigarette use among nonsmoking youth increases the likelihood of future use of conventional cigarettes.5 — 10 Specifically, the pooled odds ratio (OR) in a recent meta - analysis of studies of adolescents and young adults (aged 14 — 30) indicates that those who had ever used e-cigarettes were 3.62 times more likely to report using cigarettes at follow - up compared with those who had not used e - cigarettes.11 This finding was robust and remained significant when adjusting for known risk factors associated with cigarette smoking, including demographic, psychosocial, and behavioral variables such as cigarette susceptibility.

«What this study does is really bring home the numbers that we already knew were out there, that firefighters are suffering from PTSD and other behavioral health disorders,» says Brinkley.

Other crucial discoveries that were made under the study include 281 apps that collected the location or contact data of children without asking for permission from parents, and 1,100 apps that shared persistent identifying information that can be used for behavioral advertising methods that are banned to be used on children.

Educated at Brigham Young and Emory Universities, Dr. Daniel Crosby is a psychologist, behavioral finance expert and asset manager who applies his study of market psychology to everything from financial product design to security selection.

Dr. Daniel Crosby is a psychologist, behavioral finance expert and asset manager who applies his study of market psychology to everything from financial product design to security selection.

It is possible that the drug is harmful to developing babies, but it's also possible that women who are on antidepressant medications are more severely depressed from the start and there is a biological or behavioral factor in these moms that accounts for the correlation found in the study.

Research from a recent longitudinal study on 120 toddlers reveals that poor language skills lead to later behavioral problems (James).

Other studies have shown about half of the behavioral, achievement, and emotional problems seen in boys from divorced families could be identified as early as four year prior to the divorce.

While the theoretical principles guiding the use of the NBO and the accompanying training program, include many of the conceptual themes that informed our work with the NBAS, they are influenced by theoretical and clinical principles from the fields of infant mental health, child development, brain development, behavioral pediatrics, systems theory, communication studies, nursing, early intervention and cultural studies, among its influences.

She has received several awards including the Outstanding Research Study Award from the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children, and most recently, she was named 2003 Distinguished Alumna by the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences at California State University, Chico.

Neuropsychological and neuroimaging studies from adults as well as behavioral studies with older babies (12) showed that human infants tested at 7 months perceive sensory dissonance similar to adults (53), that infants prefer to listen to consonant intervals (11, 30) and appear to discriminate consonant and dissonant music shortly after birth (28).

Mass Audubon's Hatheway School of Science and Education hosts ornithologists from the United Kingdom, Holland, and Germany to do behavioral studies and lecture on bird ecology at Drumlin Farm.

Additionally, the therapist guide for an integrative behavioral approach studied with funding from the National Institute of Mental Health is available for purchase:

By looking at reproduction as both a source of cooperation and conflict between the sexes, the researchers are finding clues from this study on a behavioral and molecular level that can be an important link for solving certain unexplained causes of human infertility.

His group is also planning longitudinal studies to identify the brain and behavioral characteristics that distinguish children who will have persistent numerical and mathematical deficits from those whose problems are more transient.

«Lexigrams were learned, as human language is, during meaningful social interactions, not from behavioral training,» said the study's lead author, Kristen Gillespie - Lynch, an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the City University of New York and a former UCLA graduate student in Greenfield's laboratory.

A new study found that kids with autism were slower to integrate stimuli from different senses, providing possible explanations for behavioral differences

Focusing on the neural pathway from the brain's prefrontal cortex to the amygdala, they combined optogenetics — a technique that uses light to control the activity of neurons in living tissue — with behavioral testing, a methodology that allows researchers to study functional connections between different regions of the brain.

Results from this study, and others related to obesity and pregnancy, will be presented today during an oral presentation by author Kellie Tamashiro, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Johns Hopkins University at 3:30 pm ET at The Obesity Society Annual Meeting at ObesityWeekSM 2014 in Boston, Mass..

The study by Alison McLeish, a University of Cincinnati associate professor of psychology, Christina Luberto, a recent doctoral graduate from UC and clinical fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital, and Emily O'Bryan, a graduate student in the UC Department of Psychology, will be presented at the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT) 49th Annual Convention.

We follow Alda as he meets with archaeologists unearthing stonework from caves in the Dordogne region in southern France and as he participates in behavioral studies on both chimps and children with primatologists at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center of Emory University in Atlanta.

Few studies have been conducted that examine SCP and its consequences, but it can be drawn from research on parental corporal punishment that SCP likely has negative impacts on children's social, behavioral and mental well - being, say the researchers.

Researchers from North Carolina State University and Northwestern University are outlining a new approach to behavioral research that draws on experimental studies and computer models to offer new insights into organizational and group behavior.

Currently, Deng's laboratory is conducting additional preclinical studies using the human - derived stem cells from Down syndrome patients and mouse models to determine whether cellular and behavioral abnormalities can be improved with minocycline therapy and other candidate drugs.

When astronauts are outside of Earth's magnetic field, spaceships provide only limited shielding from radiation exposure, explains study leader Robert D. Hienz, Ph.D., an associate professor of behavioral biology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

«These findings present a conundrum for designing Dravet syndrome treatments that both control seizures and improve social behavior,» noted Nephi Stella, another researcher on the study from the UW departments of pharmacology and psychiatry and behavioral sciences.

In conducting their study, which includes detailed behavioral, medical and genetic observations of 14 boys with CS from 12 families, the team of scientists and physicians worked closely with families of the small but fast - growing Christianson Syndrome Association, including hosting the group's inaugural conference at Brown's Alpert Medical School last summer.

She writes a bimonthly news column about notable twins in academia, the arts, and sports for the journal Twin Research, and she directs her own behavioral studies of twins from the helm of the Twin Studies Center at California State University at Fulstudies of twins from the helm of the Twin Studies Center at California State University at FulStudies Center at California State University at Fullerton.

And what do behavioral studies of captive chimps reveal that can not be learned from studying chimps in the wild and vice versa?

As a result, when prairie voles are separated from their partners even for a short time, they experience withdrawal - like symptoms, says Larry Young, a behavioral neuroscientist at Emory University's Yerkes National Primate Research Center and co-author of the study.

A new study, published online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, suggests that these chemicals can change reproductive behavior as well, and that these behavioral changes can be passed on from parents to offspring.

«In our study, transgender youth decided to pursue fertility preservation at much lower rates than we would have expected from research on reproductive desires of transgender adults, which suggests that about half want biological children and over a third would have considered preserving their fertility if techniques had been available and offered to them,» said lead author Diane Chen, PhD, a pediatric psychologist with the Gender & Sex Development Program at Lurie Children's and in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

Researchers analyzed social bonds in behavioral data from a long - term study of the rock hyrax, a small mammal that lives in colonies across Africa and the Middle East.

Medical psychologist Jack D. Edinger of Duke University and his colleagues conducted a two - and - a-half-year study of 75 adults suffering from sleep maintenance insomnia in order to assess the efficacy of a form of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), as compared with relaxation therapy and placebo therapy.

«The Laboratory of Behavioral Ecology and Evolution, together with collaborators from other disciplines at Seoul National University, is focusing now at the spotted lanternflies» display behaviour that helps these insects to avoid predation,» comment Piotr Jablonski and Sang - Im Lee, the co-authors of the study.

In a previous study of civilians with insomnia, Taylor and his research team discovered that cognitive behavioral therapy led to significant improvements in sleep efficiency, with the research subjects» use of sleep medication declining from 87.5 percent before therapy to 54 percent afterward, although the subjects weren't required to stop taking their medication.

Taylor received a $ 1.16 million grant from the U.S. Department of Defense for the study, which was affiliated with the STRONG STAR Consortium, a federally funded network of national experts seeking the best ways to treat behavioral health problems impacting post-9 / 11 service members and veterans.

That study comes from behavioral ecologist Christophe Boesch of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, who spent years observing wild chimpanzees in the Taï National Park in Côte d'Ivoire.

In 2014, he waded into another controversy, this one surrounding Diederik Stapel, a notorious fraudster from Tilburg University in the Netherlands who fabricated dozens of studies in the field of behavioral psychology.

However, a new study from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business titled «Less Evil Than You: Bounded Self - Righteousness in Character Inferences, Emotional Reactions, and Behavioral Extremes,» to be published in the forthcoming Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Nicholas Epley and Nadav Klein ask whether the extensive research on self - righteousness overlooks an important ambiguity: When people say they are more moral than others, do they mean they are more like a saint than others or lesslike a sinner?

Analyzing data on more than 4,000 participants in the Children of the 90s study at the University of Bristol, researchers from Harvard and Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health found that children with behavioral problems at the age of 8, had higher levels of two proteins (C - reactive protein — CRP; and Interleukin 6 — IL - 6) in their blood when tested at the age of 10.

A new study from the University of Colorado Denver finds that scientists agree that children of same - sex parents experience «no difference» on a range of social and behavioral outcomes compared to children of heterosexual or single parents.

Meanwhile, studies have shown promise from non-medication approaches to changing dementia patients» behavior and reducing triggers for behavioral issues in their environment and daily life.

One study, for instance, asserted that meth abusers might be too cognitively damaged to benefit from rehabilitative treatments, such as cognitive behavioral therapies.

Studies over the past few years have suggested that toxoplasmosis infections in humans, too, may cause behavioral changes — from subtle shifts to outright schizophrenia.

«But our comparison of national data from the NHIS with data from the EHDIC study provides a more nuanced picture of the factors underlying these behavioral differences and suggests that the disparities found at the national level may be a function of social and environmental differences.