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World-first device may help solve child language mystery

World-first device may help solve child language mystery

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 07, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (10) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers are one step closer to understanding why children can learn languages far more easily than adults, thanks to a world-first device that allows scientists to measure the magnetic ...





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Study: The new buzz on detecting tinnitus

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 03, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

It's a ringing, a buzzing, a hissing or a clicking - and the patient is the only one who can hear it. Complicating matters, physicians can rarely pinpoint the source of tinnitus, a chronic ringing of the head or ears that ...


Sights and sounds of emotion trigger big brain responses

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers at the University of York have identified a part of the brain that responds to both facial and vocal expressions of emotion.


Parents' depression can weigh on children

Medicine & Health / Health

created Aug 07, 2007 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

A parent’s struggle with stress or depression can lower a child’s quality of life -- and it could hinder an overweight youngster’s attempts to lose weight, too, University of Florida researchers say.


Study offers tips on taming the boogie monster

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Many parents of preschoolers struggle with their children's fears of real and imaginary creatures. A new study offers some ideas on how they can better manage their children's worries.


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Study: Cancer may pass from mother to unborn child

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study has provided genetic evidence for the first time that it is possible for a mother to transmit cancer to her unborn child via the placenta.


Child safety seat education needs an extra boost

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Motor vehicle crashes are a leading cause of death among children despite the widespread availability of effective child passenger restraint systems (CPRSs) such as child safety seats. However, even when provided with free ...


Technique Could Improve Accuracy of Child Testimony

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Seven open-ended questions could make children less suggestible during interviews.


When preschoolers ask questions, they want explanations

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 3

Curiosity plays a big part in preschoolers' lives. A new study that explored why young children ask so many "why" questions concludes that children are motivated by a desire for explanation.


French woman asks court for dead husband's sperm

Medicine & Health / Other

created Sep 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A 39-year-old widow asked a French court Wednesday to allow her to retrieve her late husband's frozen sperm so that she can be inseminated and have his child.


Disease-matching software could save children

Disease-matching software could save children

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- By matching children with rare or life-threatening diseases and modelling potential disease progression, researchers hope to find new routes forward.



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