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July 21, 2024
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July 16, 2024 A new, large study confirms earlier findings that children with an autistic sibling have a 20% chance of being autistic ...
July 11, 2024 Toddlers engage more regions of their brains around 16-months to help them develop important cognitive skills enabling them to follow simple instructions and control impulses. Findings from the study suggests 16 months is a critical period for brain ...
July 10, 2024 New research indicates that babies can begin grasping complex language and ...
July 5, 2024 Researchers outline some of the intermediate biological steps that could play into how prenatal cannabis exposure leads to behavioral issues down the ...
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June 27, 2024 A research team tracked children from infancy through age 3 to explore the roots of emotional overeating. Parents/caregivers were surveyed about the ...
June 27, 2024 Researchers find that growing up in neighborhoods with more educational and socioeconomic opportunities has a positive impact on infants' brain ...
June 24, 2024 A study suggests giving oxygen at a concentration of 90 to 100 percent soon after birth could halve the risk of death for very premature babies that need help ...
June 25, 2024 Children who report being more empathetic are more likely to show signs of poorer health in the face of more interparental conflict than less ...
June 17, 2024 Researchers analyzed 4,400 cognitively unimpaired adults with amyloid imaging, finding increased amyloid in those who reported that their mothers had ...
Bedtime Battles: 1 in 4 Parents Say Their Child Can't Go to Sleep Because They're Worried or Anxious
June 17, 2024 One in four parents describe getting their young child to bed as difficult -- and these parents are less likely to have a bedtime routine, more ...
June 17, 2024 The relationship between mother and child may offer clues to the mystery of why humans live longer than expected for their size -- and shed new light on what it means to be human -- according to a ...
June 12, 2024 People who give birth to infants less than 5.5 pounds may be more likely to have memory and thinking problems later in life than people who give ...
June 11, 2024 Researchers have found that the maturation of the senses for smell and touch is closely linked in mice and that this strong interaction takes place within a narrow developmental time window. These ...
Babies Babble Squeals and Growls in Clustering Patterns Observable from Birth Through the First Year
May 29, 2024 In the first large-scale observation with human coding of infant vocalizations using all-day home recordings, babies of all ages from birth up to a ...
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June 19, 2024 Children who have an older sibling with autism spectrum disorder (autism) are at greater risk of developmental vulnerabilities if they also have other relatives with neurodevelopmental or psychiatric ...
June 6, 2024 New research has found that teachers may be attributing signs of age-related immaturity in children, to conditions such as Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) or Autism Spectrum Disorder ...
June 5, 2024 A new study found that circadian misalignment, which is highly prevalent in adolescents, is linked with carbohydrate consumption and sedentary behavior in ...
June 5, 2024 Babies' brains are not as immature as previously thought, rather they are using the period of postnatal 'helplessness' to learn powerful foundation models similar to those underpinning ...
June 5, 2024 For many parents, it can feel like curbing kids' screen use is a losing battle. But new research has found the parenting practices that work best to curb screen time and addictive screen ...
June 4, 2024 Talking to their parents about daily stressors can help adolescents deal with their problems. This is particularly important during the transition to middle school, when youth often are faced with ...
June 4, 2024 A new study found that drowsy driving by teenagers is a common threat to public safety on U.S. ...
May 31, 2024 A new study found that household chaos and sleep hygiene are important factors in the relationship between sleep quality and ADHD symptoms in ...
May 30, 2024 A new study has compared the amount of music and speech that children hear in infancy. Results showed that infants hear more spoken language than music, with the gap widening as the babies get ...
May 30, 2024 A new study found a distinct relationship between sleep duration, social media usage, and brain activation across brain regions that are key for executive control and reward ...
May 29, 2024 While older drugs for epilepsy, taken while pregnant, have been shown in previous research to affect the creative thinking of children, a new study finds no effects on creativity for children born to ...
May 28, 2024 A baby's exposure to air pollution while in the womb is associated with the development of certain mental health problems once the infant reaches adolescence, new research has found. The study ...
May 23, 2024 Parents are often eager to give their adolescent children advice about school problems, but they may find that youth are less than receptive to their words of wisdom. However, kids who don't ...
May 23, 2024 An exploration into the national U.S. dataset on children ever diagnosed with ADHD has revealed an 'ongoing and ever-expanding' public health ...
May 23, 2024 Economic difficulty caused by the COVID-19 pandemic led to a cascade of connected problems for some parents -- resulting in mental health problems for their children, a new study suggests. ...
May 22, 2024 Research has resulted in a new method of screening for sleep disorders in children. The tool, the first of its kind, allows health professionals to assess children for multiple sleep problems at ...
May 22, 2024 Scientists have shown that problems regulating emotions -- which can manifest as depression, anxiety and explosive outbursts -- may be a core symptom of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder ...
May 20, 2024 A quarter of parents report that caffeine is basically part of their teen's daily life, according to a new national ...
May 8, 2024 Adolescents who view their households as more unstructured, disorganized, or hectic than their siblings develop more mental health and behavioral problems in early adulthood, according to new ...
May 8, 2024 Children who experience chronic lack of sleep from infancy may be at increased risk of developing psychosis in early adulthood, new research ...
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- Teens With Later Sleep Schedules Are Less Active, Eat More Carbohydrates
- Babies Use 'helpless' Infant Period to Learn Powerful Foundation Models, Just Like ChatGPT
- Great News, Parents: You Do Have Power Over Your Tweens' Screen Use
Tuesday, June 4, 2024
- When Mothers and Children Talk About Problems, Environment Matters
- Study Reveals High Rate of Drowsy Driving by Teens
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- Infants Hear Significantly More Speech Than Music at Home
- Social Media Use and Sleep Duration Connected to Brain Activity in Teens
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- Does It Matter If Your Kids Listen to You? When Adolescents Reject Mom's Advice, It Still Helps Them Cope
- Approximately One in Nine U.S. Children Diagnosed With ADHD, as New National Study Highlights an 'ever-Expanding' Public Health Concern
- How Family Economic Insecurity Can Hurt Child Mental Health
Wednesday, May 22, 2024
- New Method for Diagnosing Sleep Disorders in Children
- One in Two Children With ADHD Experience Emotional Problems
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- Teens Who View Their Homes as More Chaotic Than Their Siblings Have Poorer Mental Health in Adulthood
- Children Sleep Problems Associated With Psychosis in Young Adults
- Pressure to Be 'perfect' Causing Burnout for Parents, Mental Health Concerns for Their Children
- THC Lingers in Breastmilk With No Clear Peak Point
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- Bacteria Behind Meningitis in Babies Explained
- Teen Stress May Raise Risk of Postpartum Depression in Adults
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- Disparities in Sleep Health and Insomnia May Begin at a Young Age
- Everyday Social Interactions Predict Language Development in Infants
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
- Even Moderate Alcohol Usage During Pregnancy Linked to Birth Abnormalities
- Early Detection of Language Disorders Helps Children Obtain Right Interventions
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- Early Vocabulary Size Is Genetically Linked to ADHD, Literacy, and Cognition
- Healthy Sleep Needs a Healthy Day: Boost Exercise to Beat Your Bedtime Blues
Monday, February 26, 2024
- Intervention Reduces Likelihood of Developing Postpartum Anxiety and Depression by More Than 70%
- Can They Hear You Now? Kids Increasingly Exposed to Noise Health Risks Via Earbuds and Headphones
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- Acetaminophen Use During Pregnancy Linked to Language Delays in Children
- Chronic Childhood Ear Infections Delay Language Development
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- Discrimination During Pregnancy May Alter Circuits in Infants' Brains
- Children Born Moderately Early Are at an Increased Risk of Developmental Disorders
Monday, December 4, 2023
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- Why Reading Nursery Rhymes and Singing to Babies May Help Them to Learn Language
- How Pre And Postnatal B-12 Vitamins Improve Breast Milk Vitamin B-12 Levels, Which Supports Infant Brain Development
Thursday, November 30, 2023
- Despite Pressures Facing Young Families, Parents Take Precious Moments to Play With Their Babies
- Early Body Contact Develops Premature Babies' Social Skills
Wednesday, November 29, 2023
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- Kids Who Feel Their Parents Are Less Reliable Take Fewer Risks Vital to Learning and Growth
- Genes Influence Whether Infants Prefer to Look at Faces or Non-Social Objects
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- Youngest Children in Class With ADHD as Likely to Keep Diagnosis in Adulthood as Older Pupils, Find Scientists
- How Adults Understand What Kids Are Saying
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- Parents of Elementary-Aged Children May Engage in More Helicopter Parenting Than They Think
- Early Behavioral Health Problems Need Earlier Interventions
- Sexism and Poorer Parenting: Study Suggests a Link
Thursday, October 12, 2023
- Fresh Light Shed on Mystery of Infant Consciousness
- No Universal Body Image Experience in Pregnancy
- Honey Bees May Inherit Altruistic Behavior from Their Mothers
Monday, October 9, 2023
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- Software Can Detect Hidden and Complex Emotions in Parents
- Should Fathers Be Screened for Postpartum Depression? Pilot Study
Monday, October 2, 2023
- Calls for Verbal Abuse of Children by Adults to Be Formally Recognized as Form of Child Maltreatment
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- Young Children Do Better at School If Their Dads Read and Play With Them
- Exposure to Plasticizers in Pregnancy Associated With Smaller Volumetric Measures in the Brain and Lower IQ in Children