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Early stress may sensitize girls' brains for later anxiety
11/11/2012 - 16:18

High levels of family stress in infancy are linked to differences in everyday brain function and anxiety in teenage girls, according to new results of a long-running population study by University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists.

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Girls with ADHD more prone to self-injury, suicide as they enter adulthood
08/14/2012 - 13:58

New findings from UC Berkeley caution that, as they enter adulthood, girls with histories of ADHD are more prone to internalize their struggles and feelings of failure – a development that can manifest itself in self-injury and even attempted suicide.

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Girls born in 2009 will have shorter lives than their mothers in hundreds of U.S. counties
04/23/2012 - 13:26

Nationwide, women’s lifespans are improving at a much slower pace than men's. In hundreds of U.S. counties, women are living shorter lives today than they did two decades ago, according to new county-by-county estimates of life expectancy released today by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, an independent global health research center  at the University of Washington.

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Girls’ Verbal Skills Make Them Better At Arithmetic
02/22/2012 - 17:04

While boys generally do better than girls in science and math, some studies have found that girls do better in arithmetic. A new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, finds that the advantage comes from girls’ superior verbal skills.

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Study shows calories drive earlier puberty
02/07/2012 - 15:35

Environmental pollutants, eating habits, lack of exercise and genetic traits have all been raised as possible causes of earlier puberty onset in girls in recent years.

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