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Language skills are essential to a child’s ability to communicate and develop. These skills enable children to engage with other people and learn from their surroundings and in the classroom.

Researchers develop special version of iDichotic for patients with schizophrenia

Two years ago, researcher Josef Bless was listening to music on his phone when he suddenly had an idea. "I noticed that the sounds of the different instruments were distributed differently between the ears, and it struck me that this was very similar to the tests we routinely use in our laboratory to measure brain function. In dichotic listening, each ear is presented with a different syllable at the same time and the listener has to say which syllable seems clearest. The test indicates which side of the brain is most active during language processing," Bless explains.

10 Feb 2013

Language impairment affects children’s writing ability

Children with specific language impairment have a lower quality of written language than their typically developing peers, show study findings.

7 Feb 2013

Wiley, The Cochrane Collaboration renew and redefine publishing partnership

The Cochrane Collaboration, the international not-for-profit organization that produces systematic reviews of healthcare evidence and the largest database of randomized controlled trials; and John Wiley & Sons, Inc., a global provider of content and workflow solutions in the areas of scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly research, professional development, and education, today announced that they have renewed and redefined their partnership to publish The Cochrane Library from February 2013.

6 Feb 2013

Measles: an interview with Dr. Robert Perry, World Health Organization

Measles is a disease marked by fever, rash, and cold symptoms (red eyes, cough, runny nose) that results in a temporary suppression of the immune system and a drop in vitamin A levels.

4 Feb 2013

Healthcare innovator invests $1.5 million in Vestec

Vestec, Inc. a leader in cutting-edge Artificial Intelligence technologies, today announced that they have secured a $1.5 million equity investment from V. Raman Kumar, founder and former CEO of MModal, the world's largest clinical documentation company and pioneer of voice-based medical transcription

4 Feb 2013

State highlights: Mayo seeks Minn. help for Rochester expansion; Texas bill on end-of-life treatment offered; Milwaukee County board considers dropping employee coverage

The Mayo Clinic is proposing more than $5 billion in investments in and around Rochester as part of an ambitious expansion plan to create what the clinic calls a "Destination Medical Center." Included in that plan is a request for more than $500 million in state taxpayer money to help fund infrastructure as the Mayo grows. Mayo claims the plan would create between 35,000 and 45,000 new jobs. Mayo is already Minnesota's largest private employer with 32,000 employees in the state.

1 Feb 2013

Language processing deficits may occur at stuttering onset

A study of preschool-age children has shown key differences in the neural networks mediating language processing between those who stutter and those who do not.

31 Jan 2013

Texas College of Traditional Chinese Medicine announces change of name

Texas College of Traditional Chinese Medicine announces the change of its name to Texas Health and Science University. "Our name change means another giant step to move the school's global efforts to work with more universities and implement our strategic initiatives!" says Lisa Ping Hui Lin, E.M.B.A., President and Chief Executive Officer.

31 Jan 2013

Weight-gain brain-drain warning for young adults

Visceral fat gain may have a negative impact on cerebellar structure and functional connectivity, an exploratory study suggests.

30 Jan 2013

RIKEN, OIST partner on Human Brain Project

One of the major frontiers of modern science is a comprehensive understanding of the human brain and its functions to guide the development of new technologies in information and communication.

30 Jan 2013

New tweet-screening method effectively tracks flu cases

Sifting through social media messages has become a popular way to track when and where flu cases occur, but a key hurdle hampers the process: how to identify flu-infection tweets. Some tweets are posted by people who have been sick with the virus, while others come from folks who are merely talking about the illness. If you are tracking actual flu cases, such conversations about the flu in general can skew the results.

29 Jan 2013

Mayo Clinic study: Cardiac disease may increase risk of mild cognitive impairment

Cardiac disease is associated with increased risk of mild cognitive impairment such as problems with language, thinking and judgment -- particularly among women with heart disease, a Mayo Clinic study shows. Known as nonamnestic because it doesn't include memory loss, this type of mild cognitive impairment may be a precursor to vascular and other non-Alzheimer's dementias, according to the findings published online Monday in JAMA Neurology.

29 Jan 2013

Viewpoints: Debating P4P; ‘Tactical retreat' by GOP; The virtues of across-the-board spending cuts

Instead of granting automatic pay increases, N.Y. City's public hospital system will pay them based on how well they reduce costs, increase patient satisfaction and improve the quality of care. The Health and Hospitals Corporation, which runs the city's 11 public hospitals, deserves praise for an ambitious proposal that will need to be refined as it is put into practice.

28 Jan 2013

Subcortical damage from craniotomies predicts neurologic deficits

Despite attempts to preserve cortical areas of function during awake craniotomy procedures, postoperative neurologic decline still occurs as a result of subcortical injury, report researchers.

28 Jan 2013

Parental behavior, quality preschool and diet can effectively raise children's IQ

Supplementing children's diets with fish oil, enrolling them in quality preschool, and engaging them in interactive reading all turn out to be effective ways to raise a young child's intelligence, according to a new report published in Perspectives on Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.

28 Jan 2013

UMDNJ-School of Osteopathic Medicine to develop blood test that can diagnose MCI

The Biomarker Discovery Center at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-School of Osteopathic Medicine has been awarded a three-year, $799,800 grant from the Osteopathic Heritage Foundation to develop a blood test that can diagnose mild cognitive impairment (MCI) caused by early-stage Alzheimer's disease.

28 Jan 2013

Semantic priming abnormalities differ between bipolar disorder and schizophrenia

Patients with bipolar disorder have decreased semantic priming, the results of a preliminary study indicate.

25 Jan 2013

Look for narrative ability in children with epilepsy

Children with chronic epilepsy have significantly decreased language skill abilities, particularly narrative ability, compared with their unaffected peers, report US researchers.

25 Jan 2013

Prenatal inflammation associated with increased risk of autism in children

Maternal inflammation during early pregnancy may be related to an increased risk of autism in children, according to new findings supported by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), part of the National Institutes of Health. Researchers found this in children of mothers with elevated C-reactive protein (CRP), a well-established marker of systemic inflammation.

25 Jan 2013

Mount Sinai sets up new center for treating tic and obsessive-compulsive disorders

Mount Sinai has officially opened a new center to treat and research tic and obsessive-compulsive disorders (OCD) in individuals of all ages. The opening coincides with a significant revision in the psychiatry field's manual of mental disorders, which will now recognize OCD with its own category, rather than classifying it as an anxiety disorder.

25 Jan 2013

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Researchers develop special version of iDichotic for patients with schizophrenia

Language impairment affects children’s writing ability

Wiley, The Cochrane Collaboration renew and redefine publishing partnership

Measles: an interview with Dr. Robert Perry, World Health Organization

Healthcare innovator invests $1.5 million in Vestec

State highlights: Mayo seeks Minn. help for Rochester expansion; Texas bill on end-of-life treatment offered; Milwaukee County board considers dropping employee coverage

Language processing deficits may occur at stuttering onset

Texas College of Traditional Chinese Medicine announces change of name

Weight-gain brain-drain warning for young adults

RIKEN, OIST partner on Human Brain Project

New tweet-screening method effectively tracks flu cases

Mayo Clinic study: Cardiac disease may increase risk of mild cognitive impairment

Viewpoints: Debating P4P; ‘Tactical retreat' by GOP; The virtues of across-the-board spending cuts

Subcortical damage from craniotomies predicts neurologic deficits

Parental behavior, quality preschool and diet can effectively raise children's IQ

UMDNJ-School of Osteopathic Medicine to develop blood test that can diagnose MCI

Semantic priming abnormalities differ between bipolar disorder and schizophrenia

Look for narrative ability in children with epilepsy

Prenatal inflammation associated with increased risk of autism in children

Mount Sinai sets up new center for treating tic and obsessive-compulsive disorders

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