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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.

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

Study examines whether the language spoken by people affects stroke outcomes

Studies have shown that Mexican Americans have worse outcomes after a stroke than non-Hispanic white Americans. A new study looks at whether the language Mexican American people speak is linked to how well they recover after a stroke.

12 Apr 2023

COVID-19 pandemic caused significant variations in cancer reporting

New research from the American College of Surgeons (ACS) outlines significant ways that the COVID-19 pandemic destabilized usual patterns of cancer care as reported in the National Cancer Database (NCDB), one of the largest cancer registries in the world used by thousands of hospitals and centers around the country to inform and improve the quality of cancer care.

12 Apr 2023

AI can identify subtle language and audio changes in patients at early stages of Alzheimer's

New technologies that can capture subtle changes in a patient's voice may help physicians diagnose cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease before symptoms begin to show, according to a UT Southwestern Medical Center researcher who led a study published in the Alzheimer's Association publication Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring.

12 Apr 2023

Prenatal musical exposure increases baby's ability for neuronal encoding of speech sounds

When pregnant women sing to their babies or listen to music on loudspeakers during their pregnancy, babies are born with a better ability for neuronal encoding of speech sounds.

12 Apr 2023

How do dietary patterns, food and nutritional supplements affect outcomes in mild cognitive impairment?

Researchers reviewed the evidence on the effects of dietary patterns, nutritional supplements, and foods on cognitive decline.

11 Apr 2023

Promoting sustainable diets: Overcoming challenges to transform consumer behaviors

Researchers describe the views and actions of consumers toward sustainable diets.

10 Apr 2023

Training with a robot may not offer the same experience as playing table tennis against human opponents

Captain of her high school tennis team and a four-year veteran of varsity tennis in college, Amanda Studnicki had been training for this moment for years.

10 Apr 2023

Watch: Rulings on abortion pill have far-reaching repercussions

U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, who was appointed by former President Donald Trump, has invalidated the FDA's two-decade-old approval of mifepristone, part of a drug regimen used in medication abortion.

10 Apr 2023

Researchers use AI and Twitter to create anxiety, depression prediction models

Researchers at the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil are using artificial intelligence (AI) and Twitter, one of the world's largest social media platforms, to try to create anxiety and depression prediction models that could in future provide signs of these disorders before clinical diagnosis.

10 Apr 2023

Mild COVID during pregnancy does not affect brain development in infants

Columbia researchers have found that babies born to moms who had mild or asymptomatic COVID during pregnancy are normal, based on results from a comprehensive assessment of brain development.

10 Apr 2023

The association between dietary behaviors and video gaming

Researchers investigated the dietary behaviour and health of individuals participating in video gaming.

10 Apr 2023

Current CVD risk assessments fall short for women from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds

Non-biological factors and social determinants of health are important to include in CVD risk assessment for women, particularly for women of diverse races and ethnicities other than white, according to a new American Heart Association scientific statement published today in Circulation, the Association's flagship, peer-reviewed journal.

10 Apr 2023

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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

Study examines whether the language spoken by people affects stroke outcomes

COVID-19 pandemic caused significant variations in cancer reporting

AI can identify subtle language and audio changes in patients at early stages of Alzheimer's

Prenatal musical exposure increases baby's ability for neuronal encoding of speech sounds

How do dietary patterns, food and nutritional supplements affect outcomes in mild cognitive impairment?

Promoting sustainable diets: Overcoming challenges to transform consumer behaviors

Training with a robot may not offer the same experience as playing table tennis against human opponents

Watch: Rulings on abortion pill have far-reaching repercussions

Researchers use AI and Twitter to create anxiety, depression prediction models

Mild COVID during pregnancy does not affect brain development in infants

The association between dietary behaviors and video gaming

Current CVD risk assessments fall short for women from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds

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