NREM and REM sleep parasomnias: clinical cases and literature review by K. Teišerskytė, I. Čelpačenko, E. Pajėdienė

“…The prevalence of NREM parasomnias in children and adolescents is higher than in adults. NREM parasomnias are often benign, self-limited, or resolved with non-pharmacological treatment, while REM sleep behaviour disorder (example of REM parasomnias) is much more likely to occur in adult age and is associated with neurodegenerative diseases. …”
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Genetic Polymorphisms in the DR2D, ANKK1, COMT, 5HTT Genes and Dental Fluorosis: Is There Any Interplay? by Luíse Gomes de Souza, Paula Cruz Porto Spada, Juliana Feltrin de Souza, Daniela Silva Barroso de Oliveira, Letícia Maira Wambier, Erika Calvano Küchler, João Armando Brancher

“…Material and Methods: 256 adolescents were examined, and dental fluorosis was diagnosed using the modified Dean index. …”
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«Karavella» Pioneers Detachment – a Look in Half a Century Light by L. A. Krapivina

“…The above organizational programs are based on the notion that the personally valued knowledge has the main priority for teenagers and adolescents because of their strong need for self-actualization. …”
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Prediction of absolute bioavailability of medicines in children: based on predicted pediatric clearance from adults by Iftekhar Mahmood

“…Aim: The objective of this study was to evaluate the predictive performance of a proposed method to predict absolute bioavailability of medicines in children (infants to adolescents). Methods: From the literature, systemic and oral clearances as well as absolute bioavailability values for 15 medicines (28 observations across different age groups) from infants to adults were obtained. …”
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Key factors influencing school violence in Peruvian emblematic schools post-pandemic by Hilda Beraun-Vasquez, Eugenia Fabian-Arias, Maribel Ruiz-Balvin

“…The educational factor also presented a negative relationship (β = −0.16, p < 0.001), indicating that changes in norms and structure could reduce violence. Adolescents’ personal factors, such as emotional distress, irritability, and anxiety, directly influence school violence. …”
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The efficacy of acupuncture for generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) in college students: Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. by Yang Wang, Xinbo Gu, Baohua Zhi, Yan Yan, Fengyan Lu, Hantong Hu, Quanai Zhang

“…GAD usually occurs in adolescence or early adulthood, and the prevalence of GAD is higher among college-enrolled young adults than in the general adult population. …”
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Characteristics of availability of psychological assistance for children and their parents (according to child helpline activities) by O. V. Kuchmaeva, L. A. Davletshina

“…The largest number of appeals come from children and adolescents, followed by other citizens, and the smallest number of appeals come from the parents of children and persons in loco parentis. …”
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Infant and Young Child Feeding in the Developed and Developing Countries by Enos, Mirembe Masereka, Clement, Munguiko, Alex, Tumusiime, Linda Grace, Alanyo

“…This accounts for the current trends in malnutrition in children under−5 years of age, adolescents, and the youth, and leads to intergenera- tion malnutrition. …”
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Derivation of Pluripotent Cells from Mouse SSCs Seems to Be Age Dependent by Hossein Azizi, Sabine Conrad, Ursula Hinz, Behrouz Asgari, Daniel Nanus, Heike Peterziel, Akbar Hajizadeh Moghaddam, Hossein Baharvand, Thomas Skutella

“…We demonstrate the possibility to derive ESC-like cells from SSC cultures until they reach adolescence or up to 7 weeks of age, but we point out the impossibility to derive these cells from older, mature adult mice. …”
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COVID-19 in Children with Congenital Heart Diseases: A Multicenter Case Series from Iran by Hassan Esmaeeli, Mehdi Ghaderian, Keyhan Sayadpour Zanjani, Seyyedeh Fatemeh Ghalibafan, Mehrzad Mahdizadeh, Mohammad Hassan Aelami

“…The patients included 4 infants, 1 child, and 2 adolescents, with a median age of 9 months and a majority of boys. …”
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Prevalence of the oral pathogen Filifactor alocis and its FtxA toxin related to clinical parameters and presence of Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans by Zeinab Razooqi, Nabil Khzam, Nabil Khzam, Mahina L’Hostis, Georgios N. Belibasakis, Anders Johansson, Jan Oscarsson

“…By assessing a longitudinal Ghanaian study population of adolescents, we recently identified a possible correlation between F. alocis levels, ftxA gene carriage, and progression of clinical attachment loss (CAL). …”
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Depression-induced changes in directed functional brain networks: A source-space resting-state EEG study by Zhongwen Jia, Lihan Tang, Jidong Lv, Linhong Deng, Ling Zou

“…To study changes in the flow of information between cortical regions of the brain in patients with depression, we used 64-channel EEG to record neural oscillatory activity in 68 relevant cortical regions in 22 depressed patients and 22 healthy adolescents using source-space EEG. The direction and strength of information flow between brain regions was investigated using directional phase transfer entropy (PTE). …”
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Calcinosis Universalis of the Elbow: A Rare Case with Classical Presentation by Sebastian Philipp Boelch, Thomas Barthel, Sascha Goebel, Maximilian Rudert, Piet Plumhoff

“…Juvenile Dermatomyositis (JDM) is a rare autoimmune disease in children and adolescents. In these patients calcinosis might be the most characteristic symptom. …”
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Co-Creating Snacks: A Cross-Cultural Study with Mediterranean Children Within the DELICIOUS Project by Elena Romeo-Arroyo, María Mora, Olatz Urkiaga, Nahuel Pazos, Noha El-Gyar, Raquel Gaspar, Sara Pistolese, Angelique Beaino, Giuseppe Grosso, Pablo Busó, Juancho Pons, Laura Vázquez-Araújo

“…Mediterranean diet adherence has been decreasing during the last few decades, and non-appropriate snacking habits have also been identified among Mediterranean children and adolescents. To co-create new snacks and to explore children’s interests and preferences, a multi-method approach was used in the present study, including some qualitative and quantitative research phases. …”
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Analysis of Pedagogical-Digital Competence in Teacher Educators: Practices and Perceptions by Lorena Berríos-Barra, Margarita Calderón-López

“…The guidelines for didactic-digital competence highlight the importance of promoting and integrating these skills into teaching practices as an essential requirement to improve the conditions of children and adolescents facing the uncertainty of the 21st century.…”
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Psychometric analysis of a simplified version of the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire in Mexican adults: The ERQ-CA-9 by Pablo D. Valencia, Anabel De la Rosa-Gómez

“…Objective: We aimed to examine the psychometric properties of a simplified version of the ERQ, initially designed for children and adolescents: the ERQ-CA. Method: A sample of 397 Mexican adults was studied (77.3% women, 22.7% men; mean age = 22.84). …”
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Insulin Therapy with Personal Insulin Pumps and Early Angiopathy in Children with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus by Joanna Tołwińska, Barbara Głowińska-Olszewska, Artur Bossowski

“…During 6 months of CSII, FMD increased and IMT decreased. Retinopathic adolescents had significantly thicker IMT and lower FMD compared to baseline results of the pump group. …”
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Giant Bilateral Adrenal Myelolipoma with Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia by S. Al-Bahri, A. Tariq, B. Lowentritt, D. V. Nasrallah

“…We report the case of a 39-year-old male with a history of CAH secondary to 21-α hydroxylase deficiency on steroids since childhood, self-discontinued during adolescence, presenting with abdominal distension, fatigue, decreased libido, and easy bruising. …”
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No Contribution of GAD-65 and IA-2 Autoantibodies around Time of Diagnosis to the Increasing Incidence of Juvenile Type 1 Diabetes: A 9-Year Nationwide Danish Study by Steffen U. Thorsen, Christian B. Pipper, Henrik B. Mortensen, Flemming Pociot, Jesper Johannesen, Jannet Svensson

“…Nine hundred children and adolescents had complete records and were included in the analysis. …”
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The relationship between social support and interpersonal self-efficacy among higher vocational college students: parallel mediation effects of anxiety and loneliness by Chunmei Chen, Yujie Zhu, Yanyan Sun, Mingkun Que

“…Method To explore the effect of social support on the interpersonal self-efficacy of higher vocational college students and the parallel mediating role of anxiety and loneliness in it, a questionnaire survey and empirical analysis was conducted on 4,270 Chinese higher vocational college students by using the Social Support Scale for Adolescents, Interpersonal Communication Self-efficacy Scale for College Student, Self-rating Anxiety Scale and UCLA Loneliness Scale. …”
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