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Schoolyard Designed for Children With Autism
May 7, 2012 — Landscape architects are creating a schoolyard that can become a therapeutic landscape for children with autism. They have designed a place where elementary school children with autism can feel ... > full story -
Parents Important in Steering Kids Away from Sedentary Activities
May 4, 2012 — Parents can have a significant impact in steering young children away from too much time spent in sedentary ... > full story -
Risk of Future Emotional Problems Can Be Identified During Well-Child Visits
May 4, 2012 — A new study suggests clinicians might be able to identify children at risk of later emotional or behavioral problems by paying attention to a few key signs during early well-child ... > full story -
Waking Chick Embryos Before They Are Born
May 3, 2012 — Under some conditions, the brains of embryonic chicks appear to be awake well before those chicks are ready to hatch out of their eggs. That's according to an imaging study in which researchers woke ... > full story -
Infants Begin to Learn About Race in the First Year
May 2, 2012 — A new study confirms that though born with equal abilities to tell other-race people apart, by age 9 months infants are better at recognizing faces and emotional expressions of same-race people and ... > full story -
A Woman’s Intense Interest in Her Partner Shifts When Grandchildren Arrive
May 1, 2012 — A new study suggests that a woman's most intense relationship in her 20s is with a member of the opposite sex, but after the age of 45 this relationship shifts to a much younger female who is likely ... > full story -
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Excessive Sleepiness May Be Cause of Learning, Attention and School Problems
May 1, 2012 — Children who have learning, attention and behavior problems may be suffering from excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS), even though clinical tests show them sleeping long enough at night. Researchers ... > full story -
Genetic Systems Disrupted in Autistic Brain
May 1, 2012 — Autism has a strong genetic basis, but so far efforts to identify the responsible genes have had mixed results. The reason for this is that autism is influenced by many different genes, and different ... > full story -
About One Baby Born Each Hour Addicted to Opiate Drugs in U.S.
April 30, 2012 — About one baby is born every hour addicted to opiate drugs in the United States, according to new research. Physicians found that diagnosis of neonatal abstinence syndrome, a drug withdrawal syndrome ... > full story -
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Prenatal Exposure to Insecticide Chlorpyrifos Linked to Alterations in Brain Structure and Cognition
April 30, 2012 — Even low to moderate levels of exposure to the insecticide chlorpyrifos during pregnancy may lead to long-term, potentially irreversible changes in the brain structure of the child, according to a ... > full story -
Bilingualism Fine-Tunes Hearing, Enhances Attention
April 30, 2012 — A new study provides the first biological evidence that bilinguals' rich experience with language "fine-tunes" their auditory nervous system and helps them juggle linguistic input in ways that ... > full story -
Unruly Kids May Have a Mental Disorder
April 29, 2012 — When children behave badly, it's easy to blame their parents. Sometimes, however, such behavior may be due to a mental disorder. Mental illnesses are the No. 1 cause of medical disability in youths ... > full story
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