Banning friendships can backfire: Moms who 'meddle' make bad behavior worse
Bad behavior often occurs away from home, leading parents to blame and limit contact with peers. However, a new study shows that banning friendships can backfire, worsening behavior instead of...
View ArticleHow do new words arise in social media?
The more centrally connected someone is within their social media network, the more likely that new words they use will become adopted into mainstream language, according to a new study.
View ArticleBelief in academic ability key factor in academic success for low-income...
A strong belief in their own academic ability can help children from low-income families defy the odds and achieve academic success, according to new research.
View ArticleNew AI can ID brain patterns related to specific behavior
Scientists have developed a new AI algorithm that can separate brain patterns related to a particular behavior. This work promises to improve brain-computer interfaces and aid with the discovery of new...
View ArticleEarly exposure to diverse faces helps babies overcome prejudices later in life
Babies who have more diverse social contacts in the first years of their life can get over their prejudices more easily by the age of 17, according to new research.
View ArticleAnxiety and depression linked to chronic pain in children
Young people with chronic pain are three times more likely than their peers to also have clinical anxiety or depression, a new review has found.
View ArticleUnaffordable food putting mums-to-be at risk
Pregnant women who have limited access to affordable, nutritious, and healthy foods have a higher chance of developing both physical and mental health problems and their baby's weight is at risk.
View ArticleRisky play exercises an ancestral need to push limits
Since their invention in the 1920s, jungle gyms and monkey bars have become both fixtures of playgrounds and symbols of childhood injury that anxious caretakers want removed. Anthropologists mark 100...
View ArticleWildfire smoke exposure boost risk of mental illness in youth, study suggests
Each additional day of exposure to wildfire smoke and other extreme forms of dirty air boosts risk of mental illness in youth a little more, according to a new University of Colorado Boulder study of...
View ArticleBabies born to women consuming a high fat, sugary diet at greater risk of...
Babies born to pregnant women with obesity are more likely to develop heart problems and diabetes as adults due to fetal damage caused by the high-fat, high-energy diet of their mother.
View ArticleWearable brain imaging device shines a light on how babies respond in...
A technology which uses harmless light waves to measure activity in babies' brains has provided the most complete picture to date of brain functions like hearing, vision and cognitive processing...
View ArticleVital language sites in brain act like connectors in a social network
When surgeons perform brain surgery on people with brain tumors or epilepsy, they need to remove the tumor or abnormal tissue while preserving parts of the brain that control language and movement. A...
View ArticleGetting autism right
Contrary to common perceptions and years of research that autistic people can't describe their emotions or often have muted emotional responses, a new study concludes that many autistic adults are in...
View ArticleResearchers test ChatGPT, other AI models against real-world students
An experiment tested six generative large language models against students in an online introductory biomedical and health informatics course. The models scored higher than as many as three quarters of...
View ArticleReducing the cultural bias of AI with one sentence
Cultural values and traditions differ across the globe, but large language models (LLMs), used in text-generating programs such as ChatGPT, have a tendency to reflect values from English-speaking and...
View ArticleLike humans, artificial minds can 'learn by thinking'
A new review shows that this process of thinking is not exclusive to humans. Artificial intelligence, too, is capable of self-correction and arriving at new conclusions through 'learning by thinking.'
View ArticleNonfatal opioid overdoses in youth spiked during pandemic
Drug overdose mortality has risen faster among adolescents than the general population in recent years, largely due to fentanyl, a potent opioid pain medication. A new study sheds light on trends in...
View ArticleMental health concerns are a huge part of primary care practice
An examination of millions of patient visits to primary care physicians shows that mental health concerns are second only to musculoskeletal complaints in everyday care. One in nine patients was...
View ArticlePlay it forward: Lasting effects of pretend play in early childhood
As the school year revs up, a renowned child developmental psychologist highlights the robust benefits of pretend play on cognitive, social, and emotional development in children and cautions how...
View ArticlePandemic-era babies do not have higher autism risk, finds study
Children born during the pandemic, including those exposed to COVID in utero, were no more likely to screen positive for autism than unexposed or pre-pandemic children.
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