Overprotective parents slow their children’s brain growth in an area linked to mental illness, a new study asserts. Kosuke Narita of Gunma University, Japan, scanned the brains of 50 people in their 20s and asked them to fill out a survey about their relationship with their parents during their first 16 years. After analyses, it was discovered that those with overprotective parents had less grey matter in a particular area of the prefrontal cortex than those who had had healthy relationships. This part of the prefrontal cortex develops during childhood, and abnormalities there are common in people with schizophrenia and other mental illnesses, according to the results, which are published in the journal Progress in NeuroPsychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry. (New Scientist, 3/10/10)
3 Responses to “Kids With Overprotective Parents Believed to Be More Susceptible To Psychiatric Disorders”
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I don’t doubt that the analysis was correctly made from the medical point of view. However, I have to ask: is the lot of 50 subjects enough to draw a valid deduction? Shouldn’t there have been more subjects participating in this research?
March 17th, 2010 at 10:16 pm
While overprotection is not to be recommended retrospective reports are notoriously unreliable. One person’s overprotection is another person’s common sense. Perhaps the study took the unreliability of human recall into account. One hopes so because these are serious allegations about the presumed cause of mental illness.
March 25th, 2010 at 8:06 am
I am agreeing with you that those parents who overprotect their children so these children are less active other than children those parents are normal protect their children because children want to discover any new thing & want know about the thing they are look 1st time in their life, well thanks for discuss this important & serious topic, I mostly search the topics related to health care issues & found the certified reseller of all scripts during search.
March 30th, 2010 at 9:56 am