A study of 473 sets of twins followed since birth found that compared with single-born children, 47 percent of 24-month-old identical twins had language delay compared with 31 percent of nonidentical twins. Overall, twins had twice the rate of late language emergence of single-born children. None ...
Date Posted: July 22, 2014
Categories: Learning Difficulties
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Cigarette smokers are more likely to commit suicide than people who don’t smoke, studies have shown. This reality has been attributed to the fact that people with psychiatric disorders, who have higher suicide rates, also tend to smoke. But new ...
Jul 22
Categories: Addictions, Suicide Prevention
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Omega-3 fish oil might help protect against alcohol-related neurodamage and the risk of eventual dementia, according to a study. Many human studies have shown that long-term alcohol abuse causes brain damage and increases the risk of dementia. The ...
Jul 21
Categories: Addictions
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Several medications can help people with alcohol use disorders maintain abstinence or reduce drinking, according to research from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Jul 21
Categories: Addictions
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Studying children with autism and their parents, researchers have found that when a child has autism, his or her parents are more likely to have autistic traits than parents who don't have a child with an autism spectrum disorder, as measured by a ...
Jul 21
Categories: Autism spectrum disorders
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Throughout our lives, our brains adapt to what we learn and memorise. The brain is indeed made up of complex networks of neurons and synapses that are constantly re-configured. However, in order for learning to leave a trace, connections must be ...
Jul 19
Categories: Learning Difficulties
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Many patients continue to suffer from symptoms (headaches, pain) several months after an accident, which can pose a real handicap to their lives. Researchers have studied the subsequent development of 1,300 people who were admitted to A&R between ...
Jul 19
Categories: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) / Trauma / Complex PTSD
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Parents are in a much more powerful position than they realize.
A new study of over 1300 3rd to 5th graders found that parental monitoring of children's media has ripple effects that extend across several different areas of children's lives out ...
Jul 18
Categories: Child Development
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Alzheimer's disease is one of the most feared diagnoses among patients. It destroys people's minds, their personalities, the very essence of who they are. And once the disease has been diagnosed, there is nothing modern medicine can do to stop it.
Jul 18
Categories: Adjusting to Change / Life Transitions
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Infants can tell the difference between sounds of all languages until about 8 months of age when their brains start to focus only on the sounds they hear around them. It's been unclear how this transition occurs, but social interactions and ...
Jul 18
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Subliminal learning in your sleep is usually dismissed as pseudo-science at best and fraud at worst, but a team of Swiss psychologists say you can actually learn a foreign language in your sleep.
Jul 17
Categories: Learning Difficulties
GONew research from The University of Texas at Dallas demonstrates that drug paraphernalia triggers the reward areas of the brain differently in dependent and non-dependent marijuana users.
Jul 17
Categories: Drug Addiction
GOSINGAPORE — Caregivers now have the option of entrusting their elderly loved ones to selected day or senior centres across the island on weekends.
Jul 17
Categories: Caregiver Issues / Stress
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The inability to ignore irrelevant stimuli underlies the impaired working memory and cognition often experienced by individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia, reports a new study in the current issue of Biological Psychiatry.
Jul 16
Categories: Schizophrenia
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A team at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, is set to launch a $40 million clinical trial to explore stem cells from umbilical cord blood as a treatment for autism. But experts caution that the trial is premature.
Jul 16
Categories: Autism spectrum disorders
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We know self-talk can help people's self-control (e.g. "Don't do it!"), and boost their morale (e.g. "Hang in there!") in sporting situations. However, before now, no-one has investigated whether self-talk is more effective depending on whether you ...
Jul 16
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