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Child prodigy

A child prodigy is someone who is a master of one or more skills or arts at an early age.

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Positive Neighbor Involvement Important If Teens Don't Develop Mother-Child Bond

Aug. 31, 2022 — Teens who live in neighborhoods with trusted, engaged adults can still develop critical social skills that were not nurtured early in life, according to a new ...

Pretend Play Should Be Studied in Children from a Younger Age, According to Researchers

Nov. 10, 2022 — Researchers say there is evidence infants are exploring the world of make-believe before they're even aware they are doing ...

Getting Kids Outdoors Can Reduce the Negative Effects of Screen Time

Jan. 23, 2023 — Researchers have found that, although more screen time at 2 years of age is associated with poorer communication and daily living skills at age 4, time spent playing outdoors can mitigate these ...

Language Trade-Off? No, Bilingual Children Reliably Acquire English by Age 5

June 23, 2021 — A new study in U.S.-born children from Spanish-speaking families finds that minority language exposure does not threaten the acquisition of English by children in the U.S. and that there is no ...

Grandparent Childcare May Not Help the Wellbeing of Mums or Reduce Mother-Child Conflict, Study Suggests

Sep. 28, 2023 — Grandparent childcare for toddlers doesn’t have an impact on the wellbeing of their mothers, a new study ...

New Model to Help Identify Risk Factors for Reading Difficulties in Children

Mar. 30, 2021 — Researchers have developed a model to help identify risk factors for reading difficulties in children before kindergarten ...

Spending Time in Nature Promotes Early Childhood Development

Oct. 21, 2021 — Want to ensure your child hits their expected developmental milestones? New research suggests living in areas with high exposure to green-space can help set them up for ...

Study Outlines Ways to Help Children Learn Forgiveness

Dec. 8, 2021 — A recent study suggests that teaching children to understand other people's perspectives could make it easier for them to learn how to forgive other people. The study also found that teaching ...

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 ...

Parents of Elementary-Aged Children May Engage in More Helicopter Parenting Than They Think

Oct. 16, 2023 — While most parents agree that kids benefit from opportunities to be independent, they may be engaging in more 'helicopter parenting' than they realize, suggests a new ...

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Brittle Stars Can Learn Just Fine -- Even Without a Brain

Nov. 29, 2023 — We humans are fixated on big brains as a proxy for smarts. But headless animals called brittle stars have no brains at all and still manage to learn through experience, new research reveals. These shy marine creatures have no brain to speak of -- ...

'Woman the Hunter': Studies Aim to Correct History

Nov. 20, 2023 — New research combined both physiological and archaeological evidence to argue that not only did prehistoric women engage in the practice of hunting, but their female anatomy and biology would have made them intrinsically better suited for ...

US Men Die 6 Years Before Women, as Life Expectancy Gap Widens

Nov. 14, 2023 — We've known for more than a century that women outlive men. But new research shows that, at least in the United States, the gap has been widening for more than a ...

AI Faces Look More Real Than Actual Human Face

Nov. 13, 2023 — White faces generated by artificial intelligence (AI) now appear more real than human faces, according to new research. In the study, more people thought AI-generated white faces were human than the faces of real people. The same wasn't true for ...

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Researchers Identify Cell Signaling Pathway Controlling Melanoma Cell Metastasis to the Brain

Nov. 29, 2023 — Researchers have been working to better understand what drives melanoma brain metastasis. They now report on the identification of a cell signaling ...

Brain Scans of Former NFL Athletes Show a Repair Protein in Place Long After Initial Injury

Nov. 29, 2023 — In a new study using brain scans of former NFL athletes, researchers say they found high levels of a repair protein present long after a traumatic ...

Mindfulness-Based Intervention Shows Promise for PTSD in Cardiac Arrest Survivors

Nov. 29, 2023 — A novel pilot study incorporating mindfulness into exposure therapy shows promise for reducing symptoms of post-traumatic stress in cardiac arrest ...

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Nov. 29, 2023 — The largest review of papers for brain cancer that has spread from the lungs has found abnormalities in the brain cancer and for which licensed drugs ...

Soccer Heading Linked to Measurable Decline in Brain Function

Nov. 29, 2023 — New research links soccer heading -- where players hit the ball with their head -- to a measurable decline in the microstructure and function of the brain over a two-year ...

Eye-Safe Laser Technology to Diagnose Traumatic Brain Injury

Nov. 29, 2023 — Researchers have designed and developed a novel diagnostic device to detect traumatic brain injury (TBI) by shining a safe laser into the ...

New Study Reveals the Critical Role of Microglia in Human Brain Development

Nov. 14, 2023 — An international team of scientists has uncovered the vital role of microglia, the immune cells in the brain that acts as its dedicated defense team, in early human brain development. By ...

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Nov. 29, 2023 — People with personality traits such as conscientiousness, extraversion and positive affect are less likely to be diagnosed with dementia than those with neuroticism and negative affect, according to ...

Tracing the Evolution of the 'Little Brain'

Nov. 29, 2023 — The evolution of higher cognitive functions in humans has so far mostly been linked to the expansion of the neocortex. Researchers are increasingly realizing, however, that the 'little brain' or ...

Researchers Find Connections Between Neuroinflammation and Alzheimer's Disease

Nov. 29, 2023 — Investigators revealed how genetic changes in certain types of brain cells may contribute to the inflammatory response seen in Alzheimer's ...