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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.

Differences in brain wiring could explain social communication difficulties in autistic children

Children with autism often struggle to identify emotional cues in other people's voices because of differences in the wiring and function of a key social center in their brains, according to a new study from the Stanford School of Medicine.

19 Jan 2023

Mother's healthy, comprehensive diet supports the child's neurodevelopment, study reveals

Maternal gestational diabetes mellitus may have unfavourable effects on the neurodevelopment of 2-year-old children.

19 Jan 2023

Negative mood causes re-analysis of information conflicting between familiar knowledge and discourse content

In a new study, researchers explored how mood influences the processing of relatively neutral discourse content.

18 Jan 2023

Semantic networks in the brains of schizophrenia patients found to be different from healthy individuals

In a study published last month in Schizophrenia Bulletin, researchers from Tokyo Medical and Dental University revealed that the semantic networks in the brains of schizophrenia patients are very different from those in healthy humans.

17 Jan 2023

Dementia risk in women may be reduced by hormone replacement therapy

Women are at greater risk for dementia than men, probably because of waning estrogen levels following menopause. Estrogen is a key female hormone linked to reproductive, sexual, and neurological functions. A new study published in the journal Alzheimer's Research & Therapy examines how hormone replacement works in women with a high genetic risk for AD.

17 Jan 2023

Overall patterns of SARS-CoV-2 caused by variants of concern among children and adolescents

A recent study systematically reviewed COVID-19 among adolescents and children due to SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern.

17 Jan 2023

Better management of emotions could help limit neurodegeneration

Negative emotions, anxiety and depression are thought to promote the onset of neurodegenerative diseases and dementia.

16 Jan 2023

Environmental education programs may be well-suited for linguistically diverse children

Participation in environmental education programs can motivate children across diverse language groups to act responsibly toward the environment, a recent study from North Carolina State University researchers suggests.

16 Jan 2023

Researchers explore how people's brains react to language depending on the mood

When people are in a negative mood, they may be quicker to spot inconsistencies in things they read, a new University of Arizona-led study suggests.

13 Jan 2023

Study confirms the role of the corpus callosum in language lateralization

A study by the HSE Centre for Language and Brain has confirmed the role of the corpus callosum in language lateralization, ie the distribution of language processing functions between the brain's hemispheres.

13 Jan 2023

Ask voters directly, and abortion rights wins most ballot fights

This is shaping up as a critical year in the country's battle over abortion rights, as both sides struggle to define a new status quo after the Supreme Court struck down the nearly half-century-old constitutional right last year.

13 Jan 2023

Despite doctors’ concerns, University of California renews ties with religious affiliates

As the University of California's health system renews contracts with hundreds of outside hospitals and clinics — many with religious affiliations — some of its doctors and faculty want stronger language to ensure that physicians can perform the treatments they deem appropriate, including abortions for women or hysterectomies for transgender patients.

12 Jan 2023

Bleeding and in pain, a pregnant woman in Louisiana couldn’t get answers

When Kaitlyn Joshua found out she was pregnant in mid-August, she and her husband, Landon Joshua, were excited to have a second baby on the way. They have a 4-year-old daughter and thought that was just the right age to help with a younger sibling.

12 Jan 2023

Study suggests many symptoms are more common after COVID-19 infection, but only a few are commonly associated with a long COVID diagnosis

Researchers compared symptoms in patients with and without prior COVID-19 history and investigated symptoms associated with long COVID diagnosis in the UK.

11 Jan 2023

York researchers shed new light on the sex differences in obesity

A newly published study from York University sheds light on the biological underpinnings in sex differences in obesity-related disease, with researchers observing "striking" differences in the cells that build blood vessels in the fatty tissue of male versus female mice.

9 Jan 2023

Research explores whether the eye influenced the development of language

Eyes provide us with most information about the surrounding world. Yet, the eye, especially that of a human, enables not only to receive stimuli but also to transfer this information outside.

9 Jan 2023

New smart soft contact lenses can monitor intraocular pressure for 24-hour cycles to detect glaucoma

Optometrists, ophthalmologists and their patients will benefit from new, high-tech tools to detect glaucoma at its earliest stages thanks to a startup that will commercialize smart contact lenses developed at Purdue University.

9 Jan 2023

How to improve American students' math skills

In the past two decades, researchers have made great strides in uncovering how children learn math, but little of that new knowledge has trickled down to teachers, according to a new book on math education.

9 Jan 2023

Speech pattern analysis can help diagnose, manage psychiatric disorders

Objective measurement of psychiatric disorders has long proved challenging. Yet, there is ample evidence that analysis of speech patterns can accurately diagnose depression and psychosis, measure their severity, and predict their onset, according to a literature review featured in the January/February issue of the Harvard Review of Psychiatry.

9 Jan 2023

Wayne State researcher wins $1.7 million NIH award to understand and tackle cisplatin-induced ototoxicity

A Wayne State University researcher has received a $1.7 million, five-year award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders of the National Institutes of Health for the study, "Targeting nitrative stress for treatment of cisplatin ototoxicity."

5 Jan 2023

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Differences in brain wiring could explain social communication difficulties in autistic children

Mother's healthy, comprehensive diet supports the child's neurodevelopment, study reveals

Negative mood causes re-analysis of information conflicting between familiar knowledge and discourse content

Semantic networks in the brains of schizophrenia patients found to be different from healthy individuals

Dementia risk in women may be reduced by hormone replacement therapy

Overall patterns of SARS-CoV-2 caused by variants of concern among children and adolescents

Better management of emotions could help limit neurodegeneration

Environmental education programs may be well-suited for linguistically diverse children

Researchers explore how people's brains react to language depending on the mood

Study confirms the role of the corpus callosum in language lateralization

Ask voters directly, and abortion rights wins most ballot fights

Despite doctors’ concerns, University of California renews ties with religious affiliates

Bleeding and in pain, a pregnant woman in Louisiana couldn’t get answers

Study suggests many symptoms are more common after COVID-19 infection, but only a few are commonly associated with a long COVID diagnosis

York researchers shed new light on the sex differences in obesity

Research explores whether the eye influenced the development of language

New smart soft contact lenses can monitor intraocular pressure for 24-hour cycles to detect glaucoma

How to improve American students' math skills

Speech pattern analysis can help diagnose, manage psychiatric disorders

Wayne State researcher wins $1.7 million NIH award to understand and tackle cisplatin-induced ototoxicity

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