News tagged with neurodevelopment

Diet counts: Iron intake in teen years can impact brain in later life

(Medical Xpress) -- Iron is a popular topic in health news. Doctors prescribe it for medical reasons, and it's available over the counter as a dietary supplement. And while it's known that too little iron can result in cognitive ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 12, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Folic acid in early pregnancy associated with reduced risk of severe language delay in children

Use of folic acid supplements by women in Norway in the period 4 weeks before to 8 weeks after conception was associated with a reduced risk of the child having severe language delay at age 3 years, according to a study in ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 11, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers gain new insight into the brain's ability to reorganize itself

When Geoffrey Murphy, Ph.D., talks about plastic structures, he's not talking about the same thing as Mr. McGuire in The Graduate. To Murphy, an associate professor of molecular and integrative physiology at the University ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 18, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Pesticide chlorpyrifos is linked to childhood developmental delays

Exposure to the pesticide chlorpyrifos -- which is banned for use in U.S. households but is still widely used throughout the agricultural industry -- is associated with early childhood developmental delays, according to a ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 19, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Good parenting triumphs over prenatal stress

A mother's nurture may provide powerful protection against risks her baby faces in the womb, according to a new article published online today in the journal Biological Psychiatry. The research shows that fetuses exposed to hig ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Feb 25, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New study possibly links cognitive and motor delays with 'flat head syndrome' in young babies

In a new study, infants averaging six months of age who exhibited positional plagiocephaly (flat head syndrome) had lower scores than typical infants in observational tests used to evaluate cognitive and motor development. ...

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created Feb 15, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

ADHD genes found, known to play roles in neurodevelopment

Pediatric researchers have identified hundreds of gene variations that occur more frequently in children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) than in children without ADHD. Many of those genes were already ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Jun 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2