Children with autism and average IQs consistently demonstrated superior math skills compared with nonautistic children in the same IQ range, according to a study by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital. “There appears to be a unique ...
Date Posted: August 19, 2013
Categories: Autism spectrum disorders
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The golden lion tamarin, a one-pound primate that lives in Brazil, is a stunningly monogamous creature. A male will typically pair with a female and they will stay close for the rest of their lives, mating only with each other and then working ...
Aug 19
Categories: Relationships & Marriage
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Summertime is fun time, when kids can make and sell lemonade, read for fun, catch and release fireflies at twilight, and daydream. These last few weeks of the best time of the year can provide your child with rich opportunities to grow their brains ...
Aug 17
Categories: Child Development
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If young people are drowning in debt, their blood pressure may be on the rise and their health could suffer. A new Northwestern Medicine® study has found that high financial debt is associated with higher diastolic blood pressure and poorer ...
Aug 17
Categories: Health / Illness / Medical Issues
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Fellow Scientific American blogger Melanie Tannenbaum is flustered by allegations that psychology is not a science and I can see where she is coming from. In this case the stimulus was a piece by Alex Berezow, a microbiologist, who in a short and ...
Aug 17
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Facebook helps people feel connected, but it doesn't necessarily make them happier, a new study shows.
Facebook use actually predicts declines in a user's well-being, according to a University of Michigan study that is the first known ...
Aug 16
Categories: Happiness
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For the first time, clinical researchers from the University of Zurich have studied whether online psychotherapy and conventional face-to-face therapy are equally effective in experiments. Based on earlier studies, the Zurich team assumed that the ...
Aug 16
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About 10 percent of the U.S. population suffers from dyslexia, a condition that makes learning to read difficult. Dyslexia is usually diagnosed around second grade, but the results of a new study from MIT could help identify those children before ...
Aug 16
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It's no accident that goal-setting pervades so many areas of modern life.
There are hundreds of research studies going back decades showing that setting goals can increase people's performance.
Most have heard the goal-setting mantra that goals ...
Aug 15
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A visual projection of human heartbeats can be used to generate an “out-of-body experience,” according to new research to be published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. The findings could inform ...
Aug 15
Categories: Eating Disorders
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Ever wonder why mental health is not taught in schools? Likely not, if you are of the mainstream mindset. But a majority of the population is affected by mental illness.
Twenty-five percent of individuals exhibit symptoms of various mental health ...
Aug 15
Categories: Child and/or Adolescent Issues, Child Development
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Aug 14
Categories: Schizophrenia
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Even the smallest dose of power can change a person. You've probably seen it. Someone gets a promotion or a bit of fame and then, suddenly, they're a little less friendly to the people beneath them.
So here's a question that may seem too simple: ...
Aug 14
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Pregnant women who don't make nearly enough thyroid hormone are nearly 4 times likelier to produce autistic children than healthy women, report scientists from the Houston Methodist Neurological Institute and Erasmus Medical Centre in an upcoming ...
Aug 14
Categories: Autism spectrum disorders, Pregnancy & Birthing
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A new study out of the University of Cincinnati not only finds that parents feel responsible about taking action when their children struggle with social issues, but also that parents are influenced by their own childhood memories. Jennifer Davis ...
Aug 13
Categories: Child and/or Adolescent Issues, Child Development
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Do you always fold a New York slice in all its oily glory? Is a whole lobster best relished in this order: legs, claws then succulent tail? Do you eat Oreos middle first? Or dunked in milk?
Far from being mere quirks of personality, rituals like ...
Aug 13
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