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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.

New clinical pathway reduces rate of debilitating complications for frail elderly trauma patients

A standardized interdisciplinary clinical pathway to identify and manage frailty in older patients has reduced the rate of one of the most debilitating complications for older patients--delirium--and kept patients from returning to the hospital within 30 days of treatment for traumatic injury.

5 Apr 2019

Children with more years of sport experience recover better from concussions, finds study

More years in sports - not less - may help protect the brains of children who have had a concussion, against future concussions, a new study says.

5 Apr 2019

Study explores how the brain finds meaning in metaphor

You can grasp a hand. You can also grasp a concept. One is literal. One is metaphorical. Our brains know the difference, but would we be able to understand the latter without the former?

3 Apr 2019

Face-to-face workshops increase householders' natural disaster preparedness

Face-to-face workshops based on the psychology of behavior change and disaster preparedness can be used to prompt households to take action to protect themselves against disasters such as earthquakes, fires and floods, a new UCL-led study has found.

2 Apr 2019

Researchers produce first global map of cerebral function lateralization

In 1865, French physician Paul Broca noted that among patients with brain damage, only those with the left frontal lobe affected had speech difficulties.

30 Mar 2019

Mammograms will soon include breast density says FDA

The US FDA has proposed some drastic new steps to update and enhance mammography as a screening tool for breast cancer.

29 Mar 2019

Research Recognition Award will help improve lives of young people with absence epilepsy

The 2019 Epilepsy League Research Recognition Award and prize money of CHF 25,000 is set to benefit young people: Dr. phil. Martina Hubacher is researching “The absent mind – Neurocognition and sleep in young people with absence seizures” at the University Children's Hospital Basel.

25 Mar 2019

Print books elicit higher quality parent-toddler interaction compared to e-books

Picking what book to read isn't the only choice families now make at story time - they must also decide between the print or electronic version.

25 Mar 2019

Study: Perivascular spaces contribute to worse cognitive health in older adults

Seemingly harmless fluid-filled spaces around the cerebral small vessels, commonly seen on brain MRIs in older adults, are now thought to be associated with more compromised cognitive skills, according to a Vanderbilt University Medical Center study published in Neurology.

22 Mar 2019

Brain area that only processes spoken, not written words identified

Patients in a new Northwestern Medicine study were able to comprehend words that were written but not said aloud. They could write the names of things they saw but not verbalize them.

22 Mar 2019

Artificial neural networks can predict how different areas in the brain respond to words

Can artificial intelligence (AI) help us understand how the brain understands language? Can neuroscience help us understand why AI and neural networks are effective at predicting human perception?

21 Mar 2019

Appropriate doffing of personal protective equipment may reduce healthcare worker contamination

More than one-third of healthcare workers were contaminated with multi-drug resistant organisms after caring for patients colonized or infected with the bacteria, according to a study published today in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, the journal of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America.

21 Mar 2019

Review: Majority of osteoporosis clinical practice guidelines ignore patients' voices

Patients' voices are ignored all too often in osteoporosis clinical practice guidelines, say researchers, who reviewed 70 English-language guidelines around the world and found less than 40 percent included any mention of patients' beliefs, values or preferences.

20 Mar 2019

Salk scientists show how background noise from neurons can interrupt focused attention

It's easy to miss something you're not looking for. In a famous example, people were asked to closely observe two groups of people--one group clad in black, the other in white--pass a ball among themselves.

20 Mar 2019

Study brings clarity about milk intake for children with Duarte galactosemia

Milk can be lethal to babies with classic galactosemia, a rare genetic disorder that severely impairs the body's ability to process a milk sugar known as galactose and is associated with a host of neurodevelopmental issues.

19 Mar 2019

Lack of health insurance may increase Aging immigrants’ risk for cardiovascular disease

Aging immigrants' risk for cardiovascular disease may be heightened by their lack of health insurance, particularly among those who recently arrived in the United States, finds a study led by researchers at NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing.

19 Mar 2019

Aphasia research reveals new, complex interactions between thought and language

Knowledge of the facts is called factive knowledge. In the phrase "He knows [that it is warm outside]", the embedded clause is assumed to be true.

19 Mar 2019

Latest advances and perspectives of all AI types used in pharmaceutical R&D

The advances in Artificial intelligence have successfully propagated into the many areas such as computer vision, speech recognition, and natural language processing.

19 Mar 2019

New ISO standard helps evaluate and manage impact of environmental damage

Environmental damage costs society enormous amounts of money - and often leaves future generations to foot the bill. Now, a new ISO standard will help companies valuate and manage the impact of their environmental damage, by providing a clear figure for the cost of their goods and services to the environment.

18 Mar 2019

Bioactive compounds in mushrooms may fight neurodegeneration in later life

New research suggests that mild cognitive impairment could be prevented in people over the age of 60 by simply eating mushrooms more than twice a week.

15 Mar 2019

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New clinical pathway reduces rate of debilitating complications for frail elderly trauma patients

Children with more years of sport experience recover better from concussions, finds study

Study explores how the brain finds meaning in metaphor

Face-to-face workshops increase householders' natural disaster preparedness

Researchers produce first global map of cerebral function lateralization

Mammograms will soon include breast density says FDA

Research Recognition Award will help improve lives of young people with absence epilepsy

Print books elicit higher quality parent-toddler interaction compared to e-books

Study: Perivascular spaces contribute to worse cognitive health in older adults

Brain area that only processes spoken, not written words identified

Artificial neural networks can predict how different areas in the brain respond to words

Appropriate doffing of personal protective equipment may reduce healthcare worker contamination

Review: Majority of osteoporosis clinical practice guidelines ignore patients' voices

Salk scientists show how background noise from neurons can interrupt focused attention

Study brings clarity about milk intake for children with Duarte galactosemia

Lack of health insurance may increase Aging immigrants’ risk for cardiovascular disease

Aphasia research reveals new, complex interactions between thought and language

Latest advances and perspectives of all AI types used in pharmaceutical R&D

New ISO standard helps evaluate and manage impact of environmental damage

Bioactive compounds in mushrooms may fight neurodegeneration in later life

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