Teens And Digitally-Interrupted Sleep
A free resource from CPYU discussing the health dangers of digitally-interrupted sleep. By Walt Mueller, CPYU President Download the handout here. Here at CPYU, one of our goals to is see young people flourish in life. This begins with pointing…
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Preventing Anxiety 3
With anxiety off the charts as a growing epidemic among children and teens, we’re spending all this week looking at strategies you can employ to prevent anxiety in the kids you know and love. One of the best ways to…
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Sports, Fitness, Screens and the Teen Brain
Recent research published in the Journal, Neuroscience, reports on the effects of physical activity, physical fitness, and screen time on the brain developments of adolescents. We already know that the childhood and adolescent years are marked by brain development, which…
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Binge Gaming
Recent research coming out of Hong Kong assessed twenty-six hundred school children regarding video gaming and mental health. The research looked at what’s called binge-gaming, defined as spending at least five hours in a row playing computer games. They found…
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Cannabis and Cancer
As the recreational use of marijuana has become more widespread, socially acceptable, and even legal in many states, the notion that smoking or ingesting cannabis products is actually harmless has spread as well. But a growing body of research is…
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