Health editor, BBC News online Late nights may have knock-on effects Late nights and lax bedtime routines can blunt young children’s minds, research suggests. The findings on sleep patterns and brain power come from a UK study of more than 11,000 seven-year-olds. Youngsters who had no regular bedtime or who went to bed later than

‘Cry analyzer’ helps identify neurological or developmental disorders in infants July 11, 2013 | Elizabeth Armstrong Moore The computer-based tool out of Brown University performs finely tuned acoustic analyses across 80 parameters that reveal details about a baby’s health. A new tool out of Brown analyzes the acoustic signal of a baby’s cry to alert

New study examines thousands of brains from two decades of research to reveal differences between male and female brain structure. For the first time we can look across the vast literature and confirm that brain size and structure are different in males and females Amber Ruigrok Reviewing over 20 years of neuroscience research into sex

NORMAN, Okla. Moments after her son finished practicing with his fifth-grade tackle football team, Beth Sparks examined his scuffed and battered helmet for what she admitted was the first time. She looked at the polycarbonate shell and felt the foam inside before noticing a small emblem on the back that read, MEETS NOCSAE STANDARD. I

Diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder Is Often Flawed True sufferers are often troubled—and yet time and treatment can often improve their lives By Scott O. Lilienfeld and Hal Arkowitz | Wednesday, January 4, 2012 | 7 Image: Stuart Bradford Advertisement This past June renowned clinical psychologist Marsha M. Linehan of the University of Washington made

Is There a Link Between Childhood Obesity and ADHD, Learning Disabilities? Feb. 19, 2013 — A University of Illinois study has established a possible link between high-fat diets and such childhood brain-based conditions as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and memory-dependent learning disabilities. “We found that a high-fat diet rapidly affected dopamine metabolism in the

A staggering 1 in 3 seniors dies with Alzheimer’s disease or other types of dementia, says a new report that highlights the impact the mind-destroying disease is having on the rapidly aging population. Dying with Alzheimer’s is not the same as dying from it. But even when dementia isn’t the direct cause of death, it

ScienceDaily (Aug. 7, 2011) Americans are no strangers to antidepressants. During the last 20 years the use of antidepressants has grown significantly making them one of the most costly and the third most commonly prescribed class of medications in the U. S. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, from 2005-2008 nearly 8.9

This is your brain on politics By UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA11/05/2012 Does your DNA decide who you vote for? USC neuro-science reveals brain differences between Republicans and Democrats. PHOTO: WIKICOMMONS With the US voting for a new president and Congress, research from the University of South Carolina provides fresh evidence that choosing a candidate may

By TARA PARKER-POPE and FELICITY BARRINGER Loic Venance/Agence France-Presse Getty ImagesCellphones are possibly carcinogenic to humans, reports a World Health Organization panel. A World Health Organization panel has concluded that cellphones are possibly carcinogenic, putting the popular devices in the same category as certain dry cleaning chemicals and pesticides, as a potential threat to human

I HAVE wonderful friends. In this last year, one took me to Istanbul. One gave me a box of hand-crafted chocolates. Fifteen of them held two rousing, pre-posthumous wakes for me. Several wrote large checks. Two sent me a boxed set of all the Bach sacred cantatas. And one, from Texas, put a hand on

Mortality Rate Is Increased in Persons With Autism Who Also Have Epilepsy, Study Finds ScienceDaily (Apr. 15, 2011) A comprehensive investigation of brain tissue donated to the Autism Speaks Autism Tissue Program (ATP), a postmortem brain tissue donation program, determined that one-third of the brain donors with autism also had epilepsy, and co-morbidity data from