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Ways to help children learn language and develop cognitive skills suggested by long-term study
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Examining factors such as how much children gesture at an early age may make it possible to identify and intervene with very young children at risk for delays in speech and cognitive development…
Male smokers benefit from combined cessation treatments
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Combining two smoking cessation therapies is more effective than using just one for male and highly nicotine-dependent smokers who weren’t initially helped by the nicotine patch, according to…
Americans ‘more susceptible than Europeans’ to job loss depression
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A study examining the effects of the 2008 recession finds that Americans who lost their jobs suffered more with depression than their European counterparts.
Portable brain-mapping device allows researchers to ‘see’ where memory fails
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The use of functional near infrared spectroscopy to map brain activity responses during cognitive activities allows researchers to “see” which brain region or regions fail to memorize or recall learned knowledge in student veterans with PTSD.
Difference found in way bipolar disorder affects brains of children versus adults
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Bipolar children have greater activation in the right amygdala — a brain region very important for emotional reaction — than bipolar adults when viewing emotional faces. The study suggests that bipolar children might benefit from treatments that targ…
Parents of children with autism curtail reproduction after signs of disorder
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Parents of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) appear to curtail attempts to have more children after the first signs of the disorder manifest or a diagnosis is made.
Placental marker of prenatal stress linked to brain mitochondrial dysfunction
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An enzyme found in the placenta is likely playing an important role in translating stress experienced by a mother early in pregnancy into a reprogramming of her developing baby’s brain, research suggests. “People think that the placenta only serves to …
How brain ‘reboots’ itself to consciousness after anesthesia
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One of the great mysteries of anesthesia is how patients can be temporarily rendered completely unresponsive during surgery and then wake up again, with their memories and skills intact. “Recovery from anesthesia is not simply the result of the anesthe…
Self-repairing mechanism can help to preserve brain function in neurodegenerative diseases
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Neurogenesis, the self-repairing mechanism of the adult brain, can help to preserve brain function in neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s, Prion or Parkinson’s, research shows. The brain has some self-repairing potential that accounts for th…
