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Child sleep disorders on the rise due to social media and obesity

More and more children in England are being diagnosed with sleep problems, including nightmares, sleepwalking, and insomnia.

1 Oct 2018

'Kidney-gene' plays role in the central nervous system and controls movement

The WT1 gene fulfills a central role in the development of a healthy, proper functioning kidney. Mutations in WT1 lead to impairments in kidney development and cause Wilms tumors, a pediatric kidney cancer.

1 Oct 2018

Eisai's antiepileptic drug receives FDA approval to treat partial-onset seizures in pediatric patients

Eisai Co., Ltd. announced today that its U.S. subsidiary Eisai Inc. received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for an indication expansion for Eisai's antiepileptic drug Fycompa (perampanel) to cover partial-onset seizures in pediatric patients with epilepsy 4 years of age and older.

1 Oct 2018

Scientists use machine learning to better predict learning difficulties in children

Scientists using machine learning - a type of artificial intelligence - with data from hundreds of children who struggle at school, identified clusters of learning difficulties which did not match the previous diagnosis the children had been given.

30 Sep 2018

Specially-designed wearable devices have potential to inform research into selective mutism

In a new study published in the journal Frontiers in Psychiatry, a team led by Child Mind Institute researchers found that specially-designed wearable devices that passively capture and quantify child vocalization features have the potential to inform research into selective mutism by providing standardized, objective measurements that can aid in diagnosis and assess the efficacy of treatment approaches.

29 Sep 2018

Researchers present details about new open science resource for neuroimaging community

An international team of researchers led by scientists at the Child Mind Institute has released the first open-source data sets of non-human primate brain imaging

29 Sep 2018

Acne stigma associated with impaired psychological and physical well-being

Many people with acne are negatively impacted by perceived social stigma around the skin condition, a new study from University of Limerick, Ireland, has found.

28 Sep 2018

Eat, toke or vape: Teens not too picky when it comes to pot’s potpourri

There is no doubt that some high school students will try to get high. However, the ways they're doing it might be changing.

28 Sep 2018

Altruistic behavior in toddlerhood predicted by infants' attention to fearful faces

Our responsiveness to seeing others in distress accounts for variability in helping behavior from early in development, according to a study published Sept. 25 in the open-access journal PLOS Biology by Tobias Grossmann from the Max Planck Institue for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences (MPI CBS) and the University of Virginia, and his team.

28 Sep 2018

Researchers start to understand how to make lab-grown heart cells mature

Scientists at Boston Children’s Hospital have made important steps towards overcoming the hurdles that stand in the way of getting heart muscle to regenerate following engraftment with lab-made heart muscle cells (cardiomyocytes).

28 Sep 2018

Taken for a ride: After ATV crash, doctor gets $56,603 bill for air ambulance trip

It was the first — and only — time Dr. Naveed Khan, a 35-year-old radiologist, ever rode in an all-terrain vehicle.

28 Sep 2018

Shared decision making needed to diagnose, treat, and manage patients with CAH

The Endocrine Society today issued a Clinical Practice Guideline that offers best practices for healthcare providers on how to promptly diagnose, treat, and manage patients with congenital adrenal hyperplasia, an inherited endocrine disorder, throughout their entire lives.

28 Sep 2018

Web-based intervention could increase parent-adolescent communication related to sexual risk

Persistent and significant health disparities related to sexual health, including a higher teen birth rate and HIV prevalence, exist among Puerto Rican adolescents compared to other racial and ethnic adolescents.

28 Sep 2018

High levels of fibroblast growth factor 23 may affect brain health

Scientists at the Medical University of South Carolina have uncovered mechanisms by which high levels of a hormone called FGF23 can reduce brain health.

28 Sep 2018

UA professor receives NSF grant to study role of stromal cells in breast cancer

Hossein Tavana, Ph.D., an associate professor of biomedical engineering at The University of Akron (UA), has received a single-PI grant in the amount of $328,426 from the National Science Foundation - his third federal grant this year - to study the role of stromal cells in cancer.

28 Sep 2018

Medicare eases readmission penalties against safety-net hospitals

On orders from Congress, Medicare is easing up on its annual readmission penalties on hundreds of hospitals serving the most low-income residents, records released last week show.

28 Sep 2018

Rochester and Minnesota team receives grant to create center for child maltreatment studies

The University of Rochester's Mt. Hope Family Center, in conjunction with the University of Minnesota's Institute for Translational Research in Children's Mental Health, has received a multi-million-dollar grant to create a national center for child maltreatment studies, becoming one of only three academic institutional partnerships in the United States to receive this prestigious award from the National Institutes of Health.

28 Sep 2018

Researchers find a novel way to tease out key factor involved in heart muscle maturation

Scientists around the world have been trying to replace damaged heart tissue using lab-made heart-muscle cells (cardiomyocytes), either injecting them into the heart or applying patches laced with the cells. But results to date have been underwhelming.

28 Sep 2018

Limiting screen time in kids can improve cognition finds study

Researchers have proved what has been suspected for some time now – reducing screen time for kids can improve their brain power. The team advises parents that recreational screen time in kids should be limited. Recreational screen time in kids include time spent using social media, playing video games and watching television.

27 Sep 2018

Parents are leery of schools requiring ‘mental health’ disclosures by students

Children registering for school in Florida this year were asked to reveal some history about their mental health.

27 Sep 2018

Children News and Research

Child sleep disorders on the rise due to social media and obesity

'Kidney-gene' plays role in the central nervous system and controls movement

Eisai's antiepileptic drug receives FDA approval to treat partial-onset seizures in pediatric patients

Scientists use machine learning to better predict learning difficulties in children

Specially-designed wearable devices have potential to inform research into selective mutism

Researchers present details about new open science resource for neuroimaging community

Acne stigma associated with impaired psychological and physical well-being

Eat, toke or vape: Teens not too picky when it comes to pot’s potpourri

Altruistic behavior in toddlerhood predicted by infants' attention to fearful faces

Researchers start to understand how to make lab-grown heart cells mature

Taken for a ride: After ATV crash, doctor gets $56,603 bill for air ambulance trip

Shared decision making needed to diagnose, treat, and manage patients with CAH

Web-based intervention could increase parent-adolescent communication related to sexual risk

High levels of fibroblast growth factor 23 may affect brain health

UA professor receives NSF grant to study role of stromal cells in breast cancer

Medicare eases readmission penalties against safety-net hospitals

Rochester and Minnesota team receives grant to create center for child maltreatment studies

Researchers find a novel way to tease out key factor involved in heart muscle maturation

Limiting screen time in kids can improve cognition finds study

Parents are leery of schools requiring ‘mental health’ disclosures by students

Bringing real-time analytics to downstream bioprocess monitoring

Designing fluidic architecture for scalable diagnostic platforms

Evaluating new approaches for rare disease genomics

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