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Gen Z want less sex in movies and TV shows | Euronews

According to new data from UCLA’s Center for Scholars & Storytellers, Gen Z viewers are tired of on-screen sexual content. Released this week, the American university’s annual Teens & Screens report, titled “Get Real: Relatability on Demand”, surveyed 1,500 young adults and teens aged between 10 and 24 in the U.S. during August. (Also: KTTV-TV.)

College students’ rates of depression, anxiety falling | “CBS L.A. Mornings”

“We’ve now seen it for a few years in a row. So, I think it’s a real trend that’s happening, and with distance from the pandemic, and then all the efforts that colleges and universities have been doing to support students better, I think it makes sense,” said UCLA’s Daniel Eisenberg.

Doctors overlooking a common symptom of autism | HealthDay News

As many as 87% of autistic children have movement impairments like delays in crawling or walking, poor coordination, trouble with balance, abnormal walking patterns and problems with fine motor skills like grasping objects or drawing, researchers said … “Motor concerns are just as common, if not more common, than verbal language difficulties in children with autism, yet they’re being significantly under-recognized and under-treated,” senior researcher Dr. Rujuta Wilson, a pediatric neurologist with UCLA Health, said in a news release.

Inside the aftermath of the largest methane leak in U.S. history | LAist

UCLA researcher Michael Jerrett, who is leading ongoing health studies as part of a settlement agreement, said some of the early analyses by government agencies were limited because they analyzed levels of toxics individually. “We don’t really have a good scientific understanding about what these mixtures do to someone’s health,” Jerrett said.  

More women under 50 being diagnosed with breast cancer | KTLA-TV

“That was unheard of 15 years ago, 20 years ago, even 5 years ago … It’s terrifying, it’s mystifying. I’ve not seen science really scramble in a novel direction like this before. Everyone’s been diligently working on this,” said [UCLA Health’s] Dr. Barb Jagels (approx. 1:05 mark).

Autistic adults push back on ‘fear-based’ rhetoric | Agence France-Presse

He has worked with experts including Elizabeth Laugeson, a UCLA psychiatry professor, whose decades of experience include developing social skills programming for youth and adults. Laugeson told Agence France-Presse the White House rhetoric that’s hyper-focused on cures hearkens back to an “ugly past” of “fear-based and deficit-based language.” “Autism isn’t a tragedy or something to be fixed for many people,” added Laugeson. “It’s a neurodevelopmental difference.”

America’s spite houses | CNN

“Hostile architecture is very American,” says Paavo Monkkonen, assistant professor in [UCLA’s] Department of Urban Planning. “Your house represents more here than it does in other countries. It’s a more personal symbol because it’s a home ownership society. There’s more neighbor-to-neighbor conflict.”

Chicago to create record of ICE Midway Blitz ‘abuses’ | USA Today

“Simply getting some data and experiences about what’s happening is a really important step and beyond that I hope the commission will think about what the state’s authority could be as it relates to civil and criminal accountability,” said Joanna Schwartz, UCLA Law professor and author of a book on the legal challenges to holding police accountable. “States and local governments should be exploring all of the powers they have and they do have a lot of powers though they may not be in obvious places and exercised in familiar ways.”

Immigrants do not commit crimes at higher rates | San Francisco Chronicle

A recent study by three economists at UCLA and Northwestern University found that the Secure Communities Program, a federal policy that involved local police in arresting and deporting undocumented immigrants, was not associated with reduced crime rates in communities targeted by the program. Instead, it “reduced the likelihood that Hispanic victims report crimes to police,” while increasing the rate of crimes committed against Hispanic people by 16%.