These disruptions are different in
children than in adults due to developmental differences which leave them more vulnerable to the effects of maltreatment.
Symptoms in children will typically resolve
faster than in adults, and thus kids may only need to eliminate a potentially problematic allergen for 1 - 2 weeks.
Whether its food related, a virus, or a multitude of other reasons, it happens more frequently in
toddlers than in adults.
Indeed, the diversity of T cell receptors generated before birth is known to be
lower than in adults, increasing the odds of two unrelated people sharing the same receptor.
Loss of appetite and weight loss sometimes occur in children but are less
common than in adults with depression.
Which means that... the angle between the standing surface and the foot would be much greater in the
child than in the adult.
After controlling for asthma, smoking, diet, demographics and other factors, researchers found that exhaled nitric oxide levels were lower in excessive drinkers
than in adults who never drink, and the more alcohol an excessive drinker consumed, the lower the level of nitric oxide.
Tissue repair is more robust in
juveniles than in adults throughout the evolutionary spectrum of organisms, from insects and amphibians to fish and mammals.
Epitrochlearis protein breakdown was higher in old
rats than in adult rats [0.73 ± 0.04 and 0.63 ± 0.02 nmol Tyr / (mg protein · h), respectively, P = 0.05].
The researchers also found that different genes were switched on in fetal dendritic
cells than in adult dendritic cells.
The number of pitches thrown by major league pitchers is closely monitored to protect against injury, but monitoring pitch count is even more important in younger players because growing bones and joints are more susceptible to
injury than in adults.
He mentions that kids» circadian rhythms are more flexible, and that jet lag in children is easier to cope
with than in adults.
Gaslighting children is often
easier than in adult relationships because children are so dependent on their parents, who control the world around the child and how they interpret the world around them; Often, the power dynamics between parents and children are extremely uneven.
Sleepwalking is far more common in
kids than in adults, as most sleepwalkers outgrow it by the early teen years.
Adjuvanted vaccines in particular were found to be more effective in children
than in adults against laboratory confirmed illness (88 per cent in children versus 40 per cent in adults) and hospitalisation (86 per cent in children versus 48 per cent in adults).
Why is unclear, but Tattersall says that «our best guess is that the control over the vessels takes time to develop, or the blood vessels in juveniles are much
denser than in adults and are less capable of being controlled.»
New research indicates that people who had more infections as babies harbor a key marker of cellular aging as young adults: the protective stretches of DNA which «cap» the ends of their chromosomes are
shorter than in adults who were healthier as infants.
Although most dogs are re-educated, the truth is that a change of behavior in the puppy is more likely to
succeed than in an adult.
It's more important,
even than in the adult sphere, to do extensive background work to answer questions such as the following: «Who is this young person?»
Both reviews conclude there is possible evidence for the effectiveness of mindfulness in children, however, effect sizes are
smaller than in adult samples, and studies in certain subgroups of psychopathology are lacking.
«That contributes to high exposure of infants and young children to inorganic arsenic which is two to three times
higher than in adults,» according to the Committee report.
Studying awake children as young as 4 - years old, Tottenham and colleagues identified developmental periods when the nature of the communication between the amygdala and the PFC operates
differently than in an adult.
The sleep rhythms that reflect circadian systems peak later in
teenagers than in adults, and vary as much as 10 hours in individuals across at any ages, according to a study published June 21, 2017 in the open - access journal PLOS ONE by Dorothee Fischer from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, USA, and colleagues.
The adult brains of people who lived through lots of stress before the age of six — and then became depressed or anxious as teenagers — were
different than in adults who had an easier childhood.
What is not known is whether infants and children under 6 are even more heavily exposed, since they have not yet been studied (for phthalates, Swan says, levels are definitely higher in
children than in adults).
In the absence of antiretroviral therapy, over 99 % of individuals infected with HIV go on to develop full - blown AIDS, and the condition evolves more rapidly in children
than in adults.
Researchers also knew that the composition of the receptor, which is made up of four subunits, is different in children
than in adults, says Princeton University neurobiologist Joe Tsien; in children, who generally have better memories and seem to learn faster, the receptor contains more of the subunit called NR2B.
The virus is widespread and mortality in juveniles is higher
than in adults.
Bipolar disorder manifests itself differently in children
than in adults, and in children there is an overlap of symptoms with other childhood psychiatric disorders.