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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.

Study explores how evolution has influenced the brain architecture

The connections between the structure of the brain and its function are a key focus of neuroscience. A new Medical University of Vienna study involving a team of international partners has been looking at evolution and its relationship with the capabilities of human and animal brain architecture.

26 Apr 2023

Gum Health Day 2023 campaign focuses on aesthetics and wellbeing

Keeping gums healthy and regularly checked is an integral part of everybody's general health as scientific evidence shows a clear association between gum disease and many serious, chronic conditions including diabetes, cardiovascular disease.

25 Apr 2023

NCCN releases new guidelines to help patients understand inflammatory breast cancer

Today, the National Comprehensive Cancer Network has published a new addition to its library of patient resources, expanding the information available for breast cancer.

24 Apr 2023

Tension builds in transgender policy debate in Montana

On April 13, Democratic Rep. Zooey Zephyr was sitting in the basement of Montana's Capitol building reflecting on her time as one of the state's first two openly transgender legislators.

21 Apr 2023

Using artificial intelligence to improve the predictability of epidemics

Before the first cases of COVID-19 became known, an algorithm based on artificial intelligence developed by a company in Canada had already detected a new virus which was spreading across the Chinese city of Wuhan.

20 Apr 2023

Neighborhood social factors may be linked to epilepsy outcomes

People with epilepsy living in disadvantaged neighborhoods - areas with higher poverty levels and fewer educational and employment opportunities - may be more likely to have memory, thinking, and mental health problems compared to people with epilepsy living in neighborhoods with fewer disadvantages, according to new research published in the April 19, 2023, online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.

20 Apr 2023

New online tool shows promise for assessing dementia risk

Researchers at UNSW Sydney and Neuroscience Research Australia (NeuRA) have developed and evaluated a tool for assessing dementia risk, with promising initial results.

20 Apr 2023

Talking therapies for depression may be linked to reduced rates of future cardiovascular disease

Using talking therapies to effectively treat depression in adults over the age of 45 may be linked with reduced rates of future cardiovascular disease, finds a new analysis of health data led by UCL researchers.

19 Apr 2023

Current evidence on the role of pre-pregnancy diets on child health outcomes

Researchers explored the existing evidence on pre-pregnancy diet and maternal and child outcomes.

19 Apr 2023

ChatGPT-4 outperforms GPT-3.5 and Google Bard in neurosurgery oral board exam

Researchers evaluate the performance of three large language models (LLMs) on a question bank designed for neurosurgery oral board examination preparation. The study found that GPT-4 achieved the highest score of 82.6%, outperforming ChatGPT and Google's Bard.

19 Apr 2023

Adapting for endemic not pandemic: Time to reassess universal masking in healthcare

Researchers discuss the changing context of universal masking in healthcare settings amid the COVID-19 pandemic and argue for a dynamic, adaptable approach to infection prevention policies.

19 Apr 2023

Children with ALL living in extreme poverty face two-fold greater risk of relapse

Children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) who live in extreme poverty and were undergoing maintenance therapy faced an almost two-fold greater risk of relapse compared with kids who weren't as poor, according to a study published in today's issue of Blood.

18 Apr 2023

Did COVID-19-associated lockdowns increase the rate of memory decline in patients with cognitive impairments?

Researchers investigated whether COVID-19-associated lockdown measures had an impact on the cognitive decline rate.

18 Apr 2023

As pandemic emergencies end, people battling long covid feel ‘swept under the rug’

Lost careers. Broken marriages. Dismissed and disbelieved by family and friends.

18 Apr 2023

Practicing and listening to music could prevent working memory decline

Normal aging is associated with progressive cognitive decline. But can we train our brain to delay this process? A team from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), HES-SO Geneva and EPFL has discovered that practicing and listening to music can alter cognitive decline in healthy seniors by stimulating the production of grey matter.

17 Apr 2023

Study highlights the importance of bivalent mRNA booster vaccination in populations at high risk of severe COVID-19

Researchers evaluated whether bivalent mRNA vaccine booster reduced COVID-19-related hospitalizations and mortality.

17 Apr 2023

Revolutionary breakthrough in epilepsy treatment: Redesigned brain surgery promises long-term seizure freedom

Researchers at the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology have discovered a network of connections in the brain linked to seizures in people with epilepsy.

17 Apr 2023

Study finds no association between maternal SARS-CoV-2 infection and infant neurodevelopment

Researchers assessed whether exposure to SARS-CoV-2 infections during pregnancy impacted infant neurodevelopment.

13 Apr 2023

Hearing aids could be effective in mitigating the impact of hearing loss on dementia

People experiencing hearing loss who are not using a hearing aid may have a higher risk of dementia than people without hearing loss, suggests a new study published in The Lancet Public Health journal. However, using a hearing aid may reduce this risk to the same level as people without hearing loss.

13 Apr 2023

Earlier intervention leads to better gains for autistic children

Researchers from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), Florida State University (FSU), and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have demonstrated that starting intervention coaching parents of autistic toddlers as early as 18 months leads to better gains in language, social communication, and daily living skills.

13 Apr 2023

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Study explores how evolution has influenced the brain architecture

Gum Health Day 2023 campaign focuses on aesthetics and wellbeing

NCCN releases new guidelines to help patients understand inflammatory breast cancer

Tension builds in transgender policy debate in Montana

Using artificial intelligence to improve the predictability of epidemics

Neighborhood social factors may be linked to epilepsy outcomes

New online tool shows promise for assessing dementia risk

Talking therapies for depression may be linked to reduced rates of future cardiovascular disease

Current evidence on the role of pre-pregnancy diets on child health outcomes

ChatGPT-4 outperforms GPT-3.5 and Google Bard in neurosurgery oral board exam

Adapting for endemic not pandemic: Time to reassess universal masking in healthcare

Children with ALL living in extreme poverty face two-fold greater risk of relapse

Did COVID-19-associated lockdowns increase the rate of memory decline in patients with cognitive impairments?

As pandemic emergencies end, people battling long covid feel ‘swept under the rug’

Practicing and listening to music could prevent working memory decline

Study highlights the importance of bivalent mRNA booster vaccination in populations at high risk of severe COVID-19

Revolutionary breakthrough in epilepsy treatment: Redesigned brain surgery promises long-term seizure freedom

Study finds no association between maternal SARS-CoV-2 infection and infant neurodevelopment

Hearing aids could be effective in mitigating the impact of hearing loss on dementia

Earlier intervention leads to better gains for autistic children

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