Infants to Adolescents: Research Update
Editors: Beverly J. Roder, Ph.D. & Mabel L. Sgan, Ph.D.

Volume 5     Number 3     May, 2004
Partners' Influence on Breastfeeding
Male Partners Influence Women's Breastfeeding Views and Practices   (prenatal - 4 months)

Mood Lifters
Seeing Their Own Babies Affects the Moods and Brain Activity of First-Time Moms   (birth - 6 months)

It All Adds Up
Five-Month-Olds Can Add Sights and Sounds  (5 months)

Male "Groupies"
Early Evidence of Gender Differences in Preferences for Group Size   (5-9 months)

Anxiously Misbehaving
Why Do Anxious Children Tend to Have Conduct Problems?   (2-4 years)

Girls Becoming Boys
Why We Should Think Twice about Assigning Sex on the Basis of Genital Appearance  (prenatal - 12 years)

Telling Someone
Factors that Influence the Reporting of Unwanted Sexual Contacts   (childhood - adolescence)

Math Whizzes
Evidence that Math Whizzes Think Differently   (13 yrs)

Growing Self-Conscious
Profiles of Self-Consciousness in Adolescents  (13 & 15 years)

Under-Motivated Teens
Teen Brains React Differently than Adult Brains When Gambling  (13 & 15 years)


QUICK TAKES

PRENATAL ALCOHOL EXPOSURE is associated with disruption of nerve messages in the child's arms during the first year

SLEEPING THROUGH THE NIGHT occurs earlier for female babies and for heavier babies

SEXISM IN CHILDREN'S BOOKS is alive and well in some respects

HOMOSEXUALITY is linked to structural brain differences in male rams




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