By James Greenblatt – ADDitude 01/17/2020 “… Boys with ADHD achieved “high performance” only when they got a large reward or feedback. During the memory exercise, the researchers tracked the boys’ moment-to-moment brain activity using a real-time brain scan called a functional MRI. …” Read the entire article: https://www.additudemag.com/bad-behavior-adhd-symptoms/
Category: Social Issues
When Boys and Men Are Raped: Clinical Insights
By Joan Cook – Psychiatric Times 01/20/2020 “… Society needs to dispel such myths for the healing of male victims to come forward to accurately label their experiences as abuse and assault and for them to be able to recognize the pernicious effects of those experiences on their mental and physical health. …” Read the READ MORE
Boys affected by cyber bullying may engage in risky sexual behaviour: Study
By The Week 01/08/2020 “… Adolescent boys who are victims of cyber bullying are more likely to exhibit adverse psychological problems, including depression and risky behaviours such as substance use, and unprotected intercourse with multiple partners. …” Read the entire article: https://www.theweek.in/news/health/2020/01/08/Boys-affected-by-cyber-bullying-may-engage-in-risky-sexual-behaviour-Study.html
1 in 4 Children With Autism Is Undiagnosed: Study
By Robert Preidt – U.S. News 01/14/2020 “… Of the nearly 4,500 children identified as having autism, 25% had not yet been diagnosed. Most of the undiagnosed children were black or Hispanic boys who had difficulties in mental abilities, social skills and activities of daily living, but were not considered disabled, the researchers said. …” READ MORE
The challenge of educating the left-behind boys
By Miranda Green – Financial Times 01/03/2020 “… The problem starts much earlier for boys as a group — at all stages of schooling, boys lag behind girls, and over the last three decades the centuries-long domination of undergraduate education by young men has been reversed. …” Read the entire article: https://www.ft.com/content/97d07f60-2bd2-11ea-bc77-65e4aa615551
Boys born to obese mothers ‘have worse motor skills and at age 3 and lower IQ at age 7 because they’re less likely to get the right nutrients in the womb’
By Vanessa Chalmers – Daily Mail 12/24/2019 “… Boys born to obese mothers have worse motor skills and at the age of three and lower IQ at age seven, a study suggests. Researchers studied 368 children’s intelligence found a ‘significant’ link with maternal obesity during pregnancy. This was only in boys. …” Read the entire READ MORE
Healthy Men: Why do girls live longer than boys?
By Armin Brott – Medical Xpress 12/31/2019 “… The disparity between male and female death rates exists in every age group, from infants through age 19—and beyond. …” Read the entire article: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-12-healthy-men-girls-longer-boys.html
Effects of cyber bullying: Researchers reveal boys who are bullied online may have more risky sex
By Samhati Bhattacharjya – IBT 01/07/2020 “… Adolescent boys who are cyber bullied pursue risky sexual behaviors more frequently than girls who are cyber bullied, a new study published in the International Journal of Adolescent Medicine and Health has suggested. …” Read the entire article: https://www.ibtimes.sg/effects-cyber-bullying-researchers-reveal-boys-who-are-bullied-online-may-have-more-risky-sex-37216
Boys born underweight ‘more likely to have infertility problems’
By Nicola Davis – The Guardian 12/12/2019 “… Baby boys born small for their gestational age have a greater chance of infertility as adults than those born at an average weight, research suggests. …” Read the entire article: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/dec/13/boys-born-underweight-more-likely-to-have-infertility-problems
HPV: WHO calls for countries to suspend vaccination of boys
By The BMJ 12/02/2019 “… The World Health Organization is calling on countries that are vaccinating boys against the human papillomavirus (HPV) to suspend these programmes until all girls who need the vaccine can get it. …” Read the entire article: https://www.bmj.com/content/367/bmj.l6765