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Empathy, realistic expectations key to raising a child with disabilities and avoiding abuse

Children with developmental disabilities are at higher risk for abuse and neglect from parents than children developing at a typical rate.

Mild traumatic brain injury may cause cognitive problems, lasting brain damage

Researchers have found that mild TBI may impact patients’ cognition and brain matter.

Humans ‘bad at detecting lies’

Planned experiment hopes to uncover the science behind lying.

Coping with a co-worker’s body odor

It isn’t easy to tactfully inform co-workers that they stink and need to address it.

Can running help autistic children?

Evidence shows that running helps people with autism improve their emotional and physical health.

Persistent symptoms following concussion may be posttraumatic stress disorder

The long-lasting symptoms that many patients contend with following mild traumatic brain injury, also known as concussion, may be posttraumatic disorder and not postconcussion syndrome. Concussion accounts for more than 90 percent of all TBIs, although…

Even mild traumatic brain injury may cause brain damage

Even mild traumatic brain injury may cause brain damage and thinking and memory problems, according to a study. Compared to people with no brain injury, those with injuries had brain damage in brain white matter consisting of disruption to nerve axons,…

Brain of world’s first known predators discovered

Scientists have found the fossilized remains of the brain of the world’s earliest known predators, from a time when life teemed in the oceans but had not yet colonized the land. The discovery reveals a brain much simpler than those known in some of the…

Brain pathways linking visual function, running identified

A brainstem circuit discovered in mice may help explain how active movement impacts the way the brain processes sensory information, researchers report. The researchers focused on the brain’s mesencephalic locomotor region (MLR), which has been shown t…

Making a mental match: Pairing mechanical device with stroke patients

A functional MRI-compatible hemiparesis rehab device that creates a long latency stretch reflex at the exact time as a brain signal has been developed by researchers. It is designed to assist stroke victims. “The device is designed to adapt to people w…