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Neighborhood opportunities influence infant development and cognition
Researchers find that growing up in neighborhoods with more educational and socioeconomic opportunities has a positive impact on infants' brain activity.
View ArticleEmotional overeating fed by temperament, caregivers' reactions to children's...
A research team tracked children from infancy through age 3 to explore the roots of emotional overeating. Parents/caregivers were surveyed about the children's temperaments and whether they consumed...
View ArticleNew model could help provide expectant mothers a clearer path to safe fish...
Research creates a framework to better balance the nutritional benefit of fish consumption with the risk of mercury exposure to the developing brain.
View ArticleFinding the sweet spot in brain development
Short-lived neural connections in the mouse brain help prime sensory circuits, forever affecting the mouse's sense of touch. Neuroscientists have discovered that a receptor protein named mGluR1 helps...
View ArticleGenetic study points to oxytocin as possible treatment for obesity and...
Scientists have identified a gene which, when missing or impaired, can cause obesity, behavioural problems and, in mothers, postnatal depression. The discovery, reported today in Cell, may have wider...
View ArticleResearchers find biological clues to mental health impacts of prenatal...
Researchers outline some of the intermediate biological steps that could play into how prenatal cannabis exposure leads to behavioral issues down the line.
View ArticleMajor trial looks at most effective speech therapy for people with...
A major clinical trial has shown the Lee Silverman Voice Treatment (LSVT LOUD ) is more effective than the current speech and language therapy commonly provided, when treating patients with Parkinson's...
View ArticleAI Chatbots have shown they have an 'empathy gap' that children are likely to...
Artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots have frequently shown signs of an 'empathy gap' that puts young users at risk of distress or harm, raising the urgent need for 'child-safe AI', according to a new...
View ArticleCreativity starts in the cradle, new research shows
New research indicates that babies can begin grasping complex language and ideas.
View ArticleNarcissism decreases with age
People tend to become less narcissistic as they age from childhood through older adulthood. However, differences among individuals remain stable over time -- people who are more narcissistic than their...
View ArticleToddlers' brains show significant growth in cognitive skills by 16 months
Toddlers engage more regions of their brains around 16-months to help them develop important cognitive skills enabling them to follow simple instructions and control impulses. Findings from the study...
View ArticleResearchers uncover brain region's role in hearing and learning
The human brain is remarkably adept at adjusting what we hear based on contexts, like our current environment or priorities, but it's still unknown how exactly the brain helps us detect, filter and...
View ArticleYouth with conduct disorder show widespread differences in brain structure
The largest neuroimaging study of conduct disorder to date has revealed extensive changes in brain structure among young people with the disorder. The largest difference was a smaller area of the...
View ArticleLarge study confirms: Siblings of autistic children have 20% chance of autism
A new, large study confirms earlier findings that children with an autistic sibling have a 20% chance of being autistic themselves.
View ArticleMultiple moves during childhood can increase the risks of depression in later...
A new study has shown that experiences of moving during childhood -- whether between or within deprived or non-deprived neighborhoods -- is associated with significantly higher rates of depression in...
View ArticleImpact of incarceration on youth health
Health records and health care use show youth whose parents have been incarcerated have more physical and mental health challenges. Identifying those youth is a problem because most health systems...
View ArticleVirtual reality training for physicians aims to heal disparities in Black...
A virtual reality training series being developed for medical students and physicians teaches them about implicit bias in their communications with their patients who are people of color and how that...
View ArticleAn over- or under-synchronized brain may predict psychosis
Is it possible to assess an individual's risk of psychosis? Identifying predictive markers is a key challenge in psychiatry. A team now shows that overly strong or weak interconnections between certain...
View ArticleLanguage affects how quickly we perceive shades of color
People who speak a language that has multiple words for different shades of colour perceive the shades more quickly.
View ArticlePreventing brain damage in preterm babies
An interdisciplinary team of physicians and scientists show for the first time that a blood protein called fibrin blocks an essential biological process that drives brain development in early life....
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