Precocious puberty and precocious adrenarche are classically defined as onset of breast development or sexual hair growth in girls before age 8 years, or as onset of testicular enlargement to pubertal size or sexual hair growth in boys before age 9 years. These definitions are based on historical...
It helps our sons tremendously to include the emotional part of puberty in our talks with them about changes in the body. We can explain that because the brain is releasing hormones differently with puberty, this causes physical and emotional changes. When these changes do start, many boys at...
Most people don't know what signs to look for, or they overlook the little clues in front of them. Through my own experiences of being a child who was wrongfully touched by a family member, I hope to shed a little light on what to look out for. Some of these things might not be ...
A new study finds that girls are more likely today than in the past to start developing breasts by age 7 or 8. The research is just the latest in a flood of reports over the last decade that have led to concern and heated debate about whether girls are reaching puberty earlier, and wh...
“As women reach puberty, they actually get more ADHD and then when they get pregnant, it improves,” Dr. Robbins tells us. “And then later when they’re going throughperimenopauseandmenopause, it gets worse again because the lack of estrogen will exacerbate it.” ...
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One or two things over the years might have just been a fluke. A handful of things bunched together during one summer might have just been a phase. But here, in event after encounter after situation, consistently, for close to 20 years since the start of puberty, there was something...
Contrary to some media accounts, attention disorders are not new. Childhood hyperactivity was a focus of interest in the early 1900s. Today, hyperactivity, impulsivity, and inattention are the focus, but disability-related to hyperactivity and distractibility has been alluded to throughout medical ...
Women lose hair on aninherited(genetic) basis, too, but female pattern hair loss tends to be more diffuse, with less likelihood of the crownand frontal hairline being lost. Although some women may notice hair thinning as early as their 20s, the pace of hair loss tends to be gradual, ofte...
Precocious puberty and precocious adrenarche are classically defined as onset of breast development or sexual hair growth in girls before age 8years, or as onset of testicular enlargement to pubertal size or sexual hair growth in boys before age 9years. These definitions are based on historical ...