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| Schooling protects refugee children from disease | Refugee children have scant access to medical care and are particularly vulnerable to disease. Fresh research results show that just a few hours of schooling a week may have a pronounced positive impact on their health not only in childhood but later in life when they achieve adulthood. | February 3, 2012 |
| Breastfeeding tied to stronger lungs, less asthma | Kids who were breastfed as babies may have better lung function, and a lower risk of asthma, than those who were formula-fed, two new reports suggest. | February 3, 2012 |
| To make a social robot, key is satisfying the human mind | Understanding the human mind is the key to social robotics, and researchers describe what we can expect from this field in the future. | February 3, 2012 |
| Gene regulator in brain's executive hub tracked across lifespan | Scientists have tracked the activity, across the lifespan, of an environmentally responsive regulatory mechanism that turns genes on and off in the brain's executive hub. Genes implicated in schizophrenia and autism are among those in which regulatory activity peaks during an environmentally-sensitive critical period in development. The mechanism, called DNA methylation, abruptly switches from off to on within the human brain's prefrontal cortex during this pivotal transition from fetal to... | February 2, 2012 |
| Young children exposed to anesthesia multiple times show elevated rates of ADHD | Researchers have found that multiple exposures to anesthesia at a young age are associated with higher rates of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). | February 2, 2012 |
| Infections in childhood linked to high risk of ischemic stroke | Common infections in children pose a high risk of ischemic stroke, according to new research. In a review of 2.5 million children, the researchers identified 126 childhood ischemic stroke cases and then randomly selected 378 age-matched controls from the remaining children without stroke. They discovered that 29 percent of those who suffered a stroke had a medical encounter for infection in the two days preceding the stroke versus one percent of controls during the same dates. | February 1, 2012 |
| Scientists decode brain waves to eavesdrop on what we hear | Neuroscientists and surgeons have recorded electrical activity in the temporal lobe -- the seat of the auditory system -- to discover how the brain encodes sound. Their model allows them to predict what a person heard based solely on temporal lobe activity. If, as studies suggest, internal "imagined" conversations activate similar areas of the temporal lobe, it may be possible to hear the internal verbalizations of people who cannot talk because of paralysis or stroke. | January 31, 2012 |
| Scientists identify genetic mutations behind children's brain tumours | Montreal researchers have discovered two genetic mutations that are behind some of the deadliest brain tumours in children. | January 31, 2012 |
| Parents need to talk more to kids about drugs: Survey | Canadian parents should talk more to their kids about the dangers of illicit and non-prescription drugs, according to a new national survey by the Partnership for a Drug Free Canada. | January 30, 2012 |
| Mom's love good for child's brain | School-age children whose mothers nurtured them early in life have brains with a larger hippocampus, a key structure important to learning, memory and response to stress. The new research, by child psychiatrists and neuroscientists, is the first to show that changes in this critical region of children’s brain anatomy are linked to a mother’s nurturing. | January 30, 2012 |