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April 19, 2024

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New Initiative Improves Detection, Evaluation of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

Apr. 1, 2024 — Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is the most common pediatric neurobehavioral disorder with a prevalence of approximately 7%-10% in school-age children. ADHD significantly affects ...

Abnormal Brain Structure Identified in Children With Developmental Language Problems

Mar. 15, 2024 — A rigorous analysis of numerous studies concludes that a part of the brain traditionally associated with movement is abnormal in children with developmental language impairments. The discovery has ...

Explicit Socioemotional Learning Can Have a Key Role in PE Lessons, Study Says

Mar. 13, 2024 — Teachers might be more motivated to help students engage with their emotions and build their resilience when this work is part of lessons, rather than as an add-on intervention, a new study has ...

Study Reveals Unexpected Literacy in Autistic People Who Cannot Speak

Mar. 6, 2024 — About one-third of autistic people are unable to communicate using speech, and most are never provided an effective alternative. However, a new study suggests that many of these individuals are literate, raising the possibility that they could learn ...

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Researchers Identify Brain Connections Associated With ADHD in Youth

Mar. 13, 2024 — Researchers have discovered that symptoms of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are tied to atypical interactions between the brain's frontal cortex and information processing centers ...

Smoking During Pregnancy May Increase the Risk of Behavioral Disorders in Newborns, Predicts AI

Mar. 5, 2024 — Although several studies have linked smoking during pregnancy with neurodevelopmental disorders, the results of behavioral experiments in mice ...

Early Vocabulary Size Is Genetically Linked to ADHD, Literacy, and Cognition

Mar. 1, 2024 — Are genetic factors underlying children's language development linked to later-life outcomes? In a genome-wide analysis, an international research ...

Uptick in Behavioral Disorders Reported in Children Following Prenatal Exposure to Anesthesia

Feb. 29, 2024 — Children prenatally exposed to anesthesia for maternal surgery during pregnancy were significantly more likely than unexposed children to receive a ...

How Parents Can Help Prevent the Development of ADHD Symptoms

Feb. 15, 2024 — Parents of young children with an excitable or exuberant temperament could adapt their parenting style to help moderate their child's potential development of Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder ...

Early Drawing and Building Skills Linked to Enhanced Education and Behavior in Children

Feb. 6, 2024 — Fine motor skills in young children are linked to better GCSE scores and fewer behavioral problems in childhood and adolescence, according to a new ...

Navigating the 'Big Little Leap' to Kindergarten

Jan. 22, 2024 — No matter how well children are prepared for kindergarten, their transition to the classroom during the first few months plays a key role in their success, a new study ...

How Does Social Attention Develop in Autistic Children?

Jan. 13, 2024 — As they grow, children increasingly focus their attention on social elements in their environment, such as faces or social interactions. However, children with autism are often more interested in ...

Putting Your Toddler in Front of the TV? You Might Hurt Their Ability to Process the World Around Them, New Data Suggests

Jan. 8, 2024 — Babies and toddlers exposed to television or video viewing may be more likely to exhibit atypical sensory behaviors, such as being disengaged and ...

Why Reading Nursery Rhymes and Singing to Babies May Help Them to Learn Language

Dec. 1, 2023 — Phonetic information -- the smallest sound elements of speech -- may not be the basis of language learning in babies as previously thought. Babies ...

Blood Pressure Drug Can Reduce Anxiety for People With Autism, Study Shows

Jan. 23, 2024 — A new study has found that propranolol, a medication that treats high blood pressure, can also help lower anxiety for kids and young adults with autism spectrum disorder ...

AI May Aid in Diagnosing Adolescents With ADHD

Nov. 29, 2023 — Using artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze specialized brain MRI scans of adolescents with and without attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), researchers found significant differences in ...

Extra Practice Blending Letter Sounds Helps Struggling Readers

Nov. 27, 2023 — New research has shown that extra practice in blending printed letter sounds can help struggling beginner readers (age 4-5) learn to ...

Youngest Children in Class With ADHD as Likely to Keep Diagnosis in Adulthood as Older Pupils, Find Scientists

Oct. 26, 2023 — Youngest children in their class with ADHD are just as likely to keep the diagnosis when enter adulthood as older pupils in their year group. In the past, scientists have questioned the validity of ...

Adults With ADHD Are at Increased Risk for Developing Dementia

Oct. 17, 2023 — Adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are nearly three times more likely to develop dementia than adults without ADHD, according to a new study. The study followed more than ...

Study Examines Role of Working Memory, Cognitive Functions in English Learners Learning to Write

Oct. 17, 2023 — A new study has examined the role of several cognitive functions in young students learning to write English, their second language. The study conducted a battery of cognitive tests, gauged the ...

Protein P53 Regulates Learning, Memory, Sociability in Mice

Sep. 28, 2023 — Researchers have established the protein p53 as critical for regulating sociability, repetitive behavior, and hippocampus-related learning and memory in mice, illuminating the relationship between ...

Origin of Cultural Learning: Babies Imitate Because They Are Imitated

Sep. 27, 2023 — A new study shows that babies learn to imitate others because they themselves are imitated by ...

Scientists Find New Evidence to Explain How We Pay Attention

Sep. 21, 2023 — A team of researchers has uncovered new clues about how chemicals released by brain cells regulate our attention ...

Knowledge of Building Blocks of Words Plays an Important Role When Deaf Children Learn to Read, Analysis Shows

Aug. 23, 2023 — An understanding of how words can be broken down into smaller units of meaning plays a key role when deaf and hard of hearing children learn to read, analysis ...

A Healthy Diet, Reading, and Doing Sports Promote Reasoning Skills in Children

Aug. 17, 2023 — According to a recent study, improved overall diet quality and reduced consumption of red meat, as well as increased time spent in reading and organized sports enhanced reasoning skills among ...

Scientists Reveal Two Paths to Autism in the Developing Brain

Aug. 10, 2023 — Two distinct neurodevelopmental abnormalities that arise just weeks after the start of brain development have been associated with the emergence of autism spectrum disorder, according to a new study ...

Board Games Are Boosting Math Ability in Young Children

July 7, 2023 — Board games based on numbers, like Monopoly, Othello and Chutes and Ladders, make young children better at math, according to a comprehensive review of research published on the topic over the last ...

THC Use During Pregnancy Linked to Changes in Fetal Development

July 6, 2023 — Researchers showed that consuming THC while pregnant could potentially affect development of the fetus and lead to life-long health impacts for ...

New Understanding of How the Brain Processes and Stores Words We Hear

July 5, 2023 — Neuroscientists say the brain's auditory lexicon, a catalog of verbal language, is actually located in the front of the primary auditory cortex, not in back of it -- a finding that upends a ...

Reading for Pleasure Early in Childhood Linked to Better Cognitive Performance and Mental Wellbeing in Adolescence

June 27, 2023 — Children who begin reading for pleasure early in life tend to perform better at cognitive tests and have better mental health when they enter adolescence, a study of more than 10,000 young ...

Students Positive Towards AI, but Uncertain About What Counts as Cheating

May 12, 2023 — Students are positive towards AI tools such as ChatGPT in education, but 62 percent believe that using chatbots during exams is cheating. However, where the boundary for cheating lies is highly ...

Problems With 'Pruning' Brain Connections Linked to Adolescent Mental Health Disorders

Apr. 24, 2023 — Problems with the brain's ability to 'prune' itself of unnecessary connections may underlie a wide range of mental health disorders that begin during adolescence, according to research ...

Research Shows Why Some Children May Be Slower to Learn Words

Apr. 18, 2023 — A new study investigates where toddlers look when they learn new words. It finds that children with larger vocabularies looked quickly towards objects when learning new words. Meanwhile, children who ...

Robot Helps Students With Learning Disabilities Stay Focused

Feb. 21, 2023 — Engineering researchers are successfully using a robot to help keep children with learning disabilities focused on their ...