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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 study could reveal the complex interaction between languages and human beings who use them

New research is helping scientists around the world understand what drives language change, especially when languages are in their infancy.

15 Mar 2019

Students with disabilities call college admissions cheating ‘big slap in the face’

For Savannah Treviño-Casias, this week's news about the college admissions cheating scandal was galling, considering how much red tape the Arizona State University senior went through to get disability accommodations when she took the SAT.

14 Mar 2019

Harmless purple bacteria can visualize aspects of tumor heterogeneity

Cancer presents an ongoing challenge for physicians, particularly in the diagnosis and treatment of the disease. This is, amongst other things, due to tumor heterogeneity.

14 Mar 2019

Using robots in autism therapy for children

Autistic children lack essential social and communication skills, and the type and severity of the symptoms experienced are wide-ranging. Because they have such diverse ways of expressing their emotions, it is difficult for therapists to gauge how engaged they are with the therapy.

13 Mar 2019

Vast majority of children with autism have difficulties that require therapeutic, educational support

Research in the past several years has shown that children can outgrow a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder, once considered a lifelong condition.

12 Mar 2019

Mushroom consumption may reduce odds of having mild cognitive impairment

A team from the Department of Psychological Medicine and Department of Biochemistry at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine at the National University of Singapore has found that seniors who consume more than two standard portions of mushrooms weekly may have 50 per cent reduced odds of having mild cognitive impairment.

12 Mar 2019

Fear of psychiatric hospitalization prevents men from talking about suicide

Fear of psychiatric hospitalization is one of the primary reasons that older men -- an age and gender group at high risk for suicide -- don't talk about suicide with their physicians.

12 Mar 2019

Antibiotics and PPIs may increase risk of infectious diarrhea in children

Prior antibiotic exposure and use of acid suppressing medications known as proton pump inhibitors may increase the risk for hospitalized children to contract dangerous Clostridioides difficile infections, according to a study published today in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, the journal of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America.

8 Mar 2019

Adolescent boys distracted from truth by fake warnings on e-cigarette ads

When it comes to marketing electronic cigarettes to young people, fake news appears to stick.

7 Mar 2019

Researchers harness power of artificial intelligence to better match cancer patients with clinical trials

A team of researchers from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory Health Data Sciences Institute have harnessed the power of artificial intelligence to better match cancer patients with clinical trials.

6 Mar 2019

Evolutionary expansion of the human brain is under strong genetic control

An analysis of brain scans from more than 600 children and adolescents reveals correlations between size of brain regions unique to humans and intelligence test scores.

From Society for Neuroscience 5 Mar 2019

Immigrant Asian American women have higher breast cancer risk than U.S.-born counterparts

Overall, breast cancer rates in the United States have stabilized since the 2000s. But according to the results of a new study led by a researcher from the University of California, Riverside, a subset of women living in the U.S. may be at higher risk for breast cancer than previously observed.

1 Mar 2019

Brain regions process concrete and abstract concepts differently

A new review explores the different areas of the brain that process the meaning of concrete and abstract concepts. The article is published ahead of print in the Journal of Neurophysiology.

1 Mar 2019

Despite 1991 ruling, foes of new family planning rules see law on their side

State attorneys generals and women's health advocates hoping to block in court new Trump administration rules for the federal family planning program face one major obstacle: The Supreme Court upheld very similar rules in 1991.

28 Feb 2019

Study seeks to understand medication management challenges for home care providers

Medically high-risk patients and communication breakdowns between providers contribute to the difficulty of medication management for older adults receiving home health care, finds a study led by researchers at NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing.

28 Feb 2019

Study makes breakthrough in identifying cause of severe child speech impediment

An international study led by the Murdoch Children's Research Institute has made a breakthrough in identifying a potential cause of the most severe child speech impediment - apraxia.

27 Feb 2019

Brain response to mom's voice found to be greatly diminished in children with autism

For most children, the sound of their mother's voice triggers brain activity patterns distinct from those triggered by an unfamiliar voice. But the unique brain response to mom's voice is greatly diminished in children with autism, according to a new study from the Stanford University School of Medicine.

26 Feb 2019

Pitt engineer wins $500,000 NSF CAREER award to study impact of harmful man-made chemicals

Per- and polyfluorinated alkyl substances are man-made chemicals that are useful in a variety of industries because of their durability, but do not naturally break down in the environment or human body.

26 Feb 2019

Researchers observe brain's ability to reconstruct facts from clues

What's an s-shaped animal with scales and no legs? What has big ears, a trunk and tusks? What goes 'woof' and chases cats? The brain's ability to reconstruct facts - 'a snake', 'an elephant' and 'a dog' - from clues has been observed using brain scanning by researchers at Aalto university.

25 Feb 2019

'Holy herb' (Yerba santa) identified as a potential treatment for Alzheimer’s disease

Yerba santa, also known as the ‘Holy Herb’, may have important implications for patients with Alzheimer’s disease.

22 Feb 2019

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New study could reveal the complex interaction between languages and human beings who use them

Students with disabilities call college admissions cheating ‘big slap in the face’

Harmless purple bacteria can visualize aspects of tumor heterogeneity

Using robots in autism therapy for children

Vast majority of children with autism have difficulties that require therapeutic, educational support

Mushroom consumption may reduce odds of having mild cognitive impairment

Fear of psychiatric hospitalization prevents men from talking about suicide

Antibiotics and PPIs may increase risk of infectious diarrhea in children

Adolescent boys distracted from truth by fake warnings on e-cigarette ads

Researchers harness power of artificial intelligence to better match cancer patients with clinical trials

Evolutionary expansion of the human brain is under strong genetic control

Immigrant Asian American women have higher breast cancer risk than U.S.-born counterparts

Brain regions process concrete and abstract concepts differently

Despite 1991 ruling, foes of new family planning rules see law on their side

Study seeks to understand medication management challenges for home care providers

Study makes breakthrough in identifying cause of severe child speech impediment

Brain response to mom's voice found to be greatly diminished in children with autism

Pitt engineer wins $500,000 NSF CAREER award to study impact of harmful man-made chemicals

Researchers observe brain's ability to reconstruct facts from clues

'Holy herb' (Yerba santa) identified as a potential treatment for Alzheimer’s disease

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