[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]People who take stress in early life are at risk of developing negative thinking which could lead to major depressive disorder (MDD), says a study.

“This study supports a wider body of literature which suggests that depression may develop from an interesting yet complex interaction between biological and psychological processes,” said study lead author Emma Robinson, Professor at the University of Bristol in Britain.

“As we start to understand these better we hope that the knowledge we generate can be used to better guide current and future treatments,” Robinson said.

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Using a rodent model of early life adversity, the study showed that offspring are much more sensitive to negative biases in their cognition when treated with the stress hormone, corticosterone.

Published in the journal Neuropsychopharmacology, the research showed a dose of corticosterone had no effect on normal rats but caused a negative bias in the early life adversity animals.

The study also found that the early life adversity rats were less likely to anticipate positive events and failed to properly learn about reward value.

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These impairments in reward-related cognition are particularly interesting as one of the main features of depression is a loss of interest in previously enjoyable activities.

The researchers suggest that these neuropsychological effects might explain why early life adversity can make people more likely to develop depression.

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Researchers have warned parents to take care of their children, as if a child is being bullied in secondary school, it may dramatically increase his/her chances of mental health problems and unemployment later in life.

The study, presented at the Royal Economic Society’s annual conference at the University of Warwick, found that being bullied in school increases the extent of mental health problems at age 25 by 40 per cent.

“Our research shows that being bullied has negative impact on important long-term outcomes, especially unemployment, income and ill-health,” said co-author Emma Gorman from Britain’s Lancaster University.

“Bullying is widespread in schools and many studies document a negative relationship between bullying and educational outcomes,” Gorman added.

For the study, the team analysed data on more than 7,000 students aged 14-16. About half of the pupils involved, who were interviewed at regular intervals until they were 21, and once again at age 25, reported experiencing some type of bullying between the ages of 14 and 16.

The researchers also found that being bullied increases the probability of being unemployed at age 25 by about 35 per cent and for the employed; it reduces their income by around 2 per cent.

“Being bullied causes detrimental effects on children’s lives not just in the short-term but for many years after. These are more pronounced among pupils who experience persistent bullying, or violent types of bullying,” Gorman said.

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Parents, it’s time for you to be more careful about your kids’ health. As in a new study, it has been observed that obese children are at high risk of asthma. An asthma diagnosis has proven that children with obesity have a higher risk of the disease as compared to a normal weight range. 23 to 27 per cent of new asthma cases were directly attributable to obesity.

“Paediatric asthma is among the most prevalent childhood conditions and comes at a high cost to patients, families and the greater health system,” said co-author Terri Finkel from Nemours Children’s Hospital in Orlando.

Finkel further said, “There are few preventable risk factors to reduce the incidence of asthma, but our data show that reducing the onset of childhood obesity could significantly lower the public health burden of asthma.”

The study published in the journal Paediatrics says, The team at Duke University in North Carolina, studied the medical records of 500,000 children as they visited the doctor between 2009 and 2015, a total of 19 million appointments.

Overweight or obese patients were matched with normal weight patients of the same age, gender, race, ethnicity, insurance type and location of care.

The results suggest that one in 10 asthma cases are linked to weight gain.

“Addressing childhood obesity should be a priority to help improve the quality of life of children and help reduce paediatric asthma,” Finkel noted.

The lead author, Dr. Jason E. Lang, an associate professor of paediatrics at Duke said, “Asthma is the most common chronic disease of childhood, the most common reason kids lose time in school, and the most common reason for hospitalization “There aren’t many preventable risk factors for it, and this study suggests that obesity may be one of them. So it’s really important to keep kids at a healthy weight.”[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]

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