Behaviour

Children exposed to tobacco smoke in early childhood adopt anti-social behaviour, engage in proactive and reactive aggression, and face conduct problems at school, even drop out at age 12, a research has showed.

A malfunctioning immune system may be responsible for social deficits in neurological diseases such as autism-spectrum disorders and schizophrenia, suggests new research.

The good news: Healthy behaviour appears to slash the risk of coronary disease in people at high genetic risk for events. The bad news: Folks with "good genes" cant expect their genetic makeup to offset ...

The findings show how drinking behaviour changes over our lifetimes, from adolescence through to old age, and could be used to design public health initiatives and sensible drinking advice.

Men with low resting heart rate were at significantly greater risk of engaging in a variety of anti-social behaviours such as stalking, according to a study.

Like alcohol or other drugs, impulsive behaviour may lead some people to develop an unhealthy relationship with food. Researchers have found that people with impulsive personalities were more likely to report higher levels of food ...

A new study has suggested that indulging in a drinking binge even once during pregnancy could have long lasting effects on the child's behaviour in later years.According to the Danish study, the infants exposed to ...

A study says that a diet rich in omega-3 fatty acids helps reduce anti-social and aggressive behaviour problems in children.

Depressive symptoms in women during and after pregnancy are linked to reduced thickness of the cortex -- the outer layer of the brain responsible for complex thought and behaviour -- in preschool-age kids, says a ...

According to a new study,published in the Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry, high consumption of Omega-6 fats can inducesedentary behaviour in pre-teen girls an also increase their risk of developing diabetes.