Adolescence refers to the transition from childhood to adulthood that begins with the onset of puberty and ends with successful independence from the parent. A paradox for human adolescence is why, during a time when the individual is probably faster, stronger, of higher reasoning capacity and more resistant to disease, there is such an increase in mortality relative to childhood. These untimel...

Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) remain a public health problem of major significance in most of the world. Adolescents make up about 20% of the world population, of whom 85% live in developing countries. They are at a greater risk of STIs because they frequently have unprotected intercourse, biologically may be more susceptible to infection, often are engaged in multiple monogamous relat...

BACKGROUND Health risk behaviours often co-occur in adolescence. This may be partially explained by a set of common risk and protective factors. The current study examines the association between risk behaviours throughout adolescence and identifies common risk factors for multiple risk behaviour in late adolescence. METHODS We use data from the Longitudinal Study of Young People in England. ...

OBJECTIVE To explore residents' opinions regarding various aspects of continuity clinic in a hospital clinic vs private office, with emphasis on primary care relationships. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. Residents (N = 47) who had spent time in both a clinic and an office setting were given a 49-question survey. Five-point Likert scales were used to quantify the residents' sense of quality of ...

BACKGROUND Dysmenorrhea is the leading cause of short-term school absenteeism. It is associated with a negative impact on social, academic, and sports activities of many female adolescents. Dysmenorrhea has not previously been described among Hispanic adolescents, the fastest growing minority group in the United States. OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence of dysmenorrhea among Hispanic fema...

Macroscopic structural networks in the human brain have a rich-club architecture comprising both highly inter-connected central regions and sparsely connected peripheral regions. Recent studies show that disruption of this functionally efficient organisation is associated with several psychiatric disorders. However, despite increasing attention to this network property, whether age-associated c...

In this review, we describe multiple pathways that may lead to risk-taking in adolescence. We review behavioral and neuroimaging studies showing heightened tendencies associated neural reward activity mid late adolescence, but evidence points risk taking as highly context sample dependent. Here, suggest individual differences, specifically drive, be a differential susceptibility factor shows se...

Cases of violence in early adolescent still often occur due to lack emotional regulation. One the factors behind intelligence is parental attachment. This study aims determine relationship between father attachment and adolescence mother adolescence. The research design correlational quantitative with sampling using non-probability voluntary technique. subjects this were 237 adolescents aged 12...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to examine the roles of adolescence risk factors in predicting coronary artery calcium (CAC). BACKGROUND Elevated coronary heart disease risk factor levels in adolescence may predict subsequent CAC independently of change in risk factor levels from adolescence to adulthood. METHODS CAC was assessed in 589 subjects 40 to 46 years of age from the Cardi...