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July 1, 2010

Decrease In Alcohol Consumption Related To Large Decline In Impulsivity In Early Adulthood

Previous studies have found that the personality trait impulsivity, or a lack of planning and forethought regarding behaviors, is associated with alcohol use and alcohol-use disorders. For most individuals, impulsivity decreases during emerging and young adulthood. Some, however, do not "mature out" of impulsivity...

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June 1, 2010

Major Decrease In Impulsivity-Related Problem Drinking Seen In 18- To 25-Year-Olds

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Personality traits associated with impulsivity normally decrease during emerging and young adulthood, and these decreases are associated with reduced substance use...

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February 26, 2010

Why symptoms of schizophrenia emerge in young adulthood

In reports of two new studies, researchers say they have identified the mechanisms rooted in two anatomical brain abnormalities that may explain the onset of schizophrenia and the reason symptoms don't develop until young adulthood. Both types of anatomical glitches are influenced by a gene known as DISC1, whose mutant form was first identified in a Scottish family with a strong history of schizo

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June 10, 2009

Boys With Intermittent Eye Deviation Appear More Likely To Develop Mental Illness

Children and especially boys diagnosed with intermittent exotropia, a condition in which the eye turns outward (away from the nose) only some of the time, appear more likely to develop mental illness by young adulthood than children without strabismus (when the eyes deviate or are misaligned when looking at an object), according to a report in the June issue of Archives of Ophthalmology, one of t

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