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Child Development News
June 29, 2023

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Poverty Negatively Impacts Structural Wiring in Children's Brains, Study Indicates

A study reveals that household and community poverty may influence brain health in children. Childhood obesity and lower cognitive function may explain, at least partially, poverty's influence on the ...

Scientists Discover Spiral-Shaped Signals That Organize Brain Activity

Scientists have discovered human brain signals traveling across the outer layer of neural tissue that naturally arrange themselves to resemble swirling ...

High-Quality Child Care Contributes to Later Success in Science, Math

Children who receive high-quality child care as babies, toddlers and preschoolers do better in science, technology, engineering and math through high school, and that link is stronger among children from low-income backgrounds, according to new ...

Conflict in Marriage Less Harmful for Kids When Dad Keeps It Constructive

Conflict is unavoidable in all marriages. When it erupts in families with children, stressed or angry parents may take their pain out on the kids, projecting their anger or withdrawing emotionally or physically. In the worst cases, children's socioemotional development can suffer. But the way ...
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Words Matter: How Researchers Can Avoid Stigmatizing Language

New research offers insights into how researchers can use their platforms to help end the use of stigmatizing ...

Mental Imagery a Helpful Way to Distract Teens from Negative Thought Patterns

For adolescents who may get stuck in negative thought spirals, refocusing on mental imagery is a more effective distraction than verbal ...

Speaking a Tonal Language Could Boost Your Melodic Ability, but at the Cost of Rhythm

Your native language could impact your musical ability. A global study that compared the melodic and rhythmic abilities of almost half a million people speaking 54 different languages found that ...

Poor Air Quality Linked to Cognitive Problems in Babies

New research shows that poor air quality could be causing cognitive problems in babies and toddlers. A new study reveals an association between poor air quality in India and impaired cognition in ...

Study Finds Early RSV Infection Linked to Significantly Increased Risk of Asthma in Children

A new observational study has found that RSV infection in the first year of life is associated with a significantly increased risk of asthma in children. The study looks at the effects of RSV ...

Problems With 'Pruning' Brain Connections Linked to Adolescent Mental Health Disorders

Problems with the brain's ability to 'prune' itself of unnecessary connections may underlie a wide range of mental health disorders that begin during adolescence, according to research ...

Impact of Maternal Stress During Pregnancy on Child's Health

New research examines the impact that maternal stress during pregnancy has on the neuro-development of ...

Drinking Alcohol While Breastfeeding Impacts Health of Newborns

What are the consequences of mothers consuming alcohol while breastfeeding? A research team at the University of California, Riverside, performed a mouse study to find ...

Grambank Shows the Diversity of the World's Languages

What shapes the structure of languages? In a new study, an international team of researchers reports that grammatical structure is highly flexible across languages, shaped by common ancestry, ...

Research Shows Why Some Children May Be Slower to Learn Words

一项新的研究调查在蹒跚学步的时候they learn new words. It finds that children with larger vocabularies looked quickly towards objects when learning new words. Meanwhile, children who ...

Early Signs That May Help Predict ADHD Risk

Information available at birth may help to identify children with higher likelihood of developing ADHD, according to new ...

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Two Brain Networks Are Activated While Reading, Study Finds

When a person reads a sentence, two distinct networks in the brain are activated, working together to integrate the meanings of the individual words to obtain more complex, higher-order meaning, ...

How Music Can Prevent Cognitive Decline

Normal aging is associated with progressive cognitive decline. But can we train our brain to delay this process? A team has discovered that practicing and listening to music can alter cognitive ...

Can You Describe a Sensation Without Feeling It First?

Research with a unique, perhaps one-of-a-kind individual, shows that you can comprehend and use tactile language and metaphors without relying on previous sensory experiences. These findings ...

More Structure, Fewer Screens Makes for Healthier Kids in the School Holidays

In the first Australian study of its kind, University of South Australia researchers found that when primary school children are on holidays, they're less active, more likely to be on screens, ...

The Brain's Cannabinoid System Protects Against Addiction Following Childhood Maltreatment

High levels of the body's own cannabinoid substances protect against developing addiction in individuals previously exposed to childhood maltreatment, according to a new study. The brains of ...

New Insights on Brain Development Sequence Through Adolescence

Brain development does not occur uniformly across the brain, but follows a newly identified developmental sequence, according to a new study. Brain regions that support cognitive, social, and ...

Kids Judge Alexa Smarter Than Roomba, but Say Both Deserve Kindness

Most kids know it's wrong to yell or hit someone, but what if that someone is a robot named Alexa? A new study asked kids how smart and sensitive they thought the virtual assistant was compared ...

English Language Pushes Everyone -- Even AI Chatbots -- To Improve by Adding

A linguistic bias in the English language that leads us to 'improve' things by adding to them, rather than taking away, is so common that it is even ingrained in AI chatbots, a new study ...

Harsh Discipline Increases Risk of Children Developing Lasting Mental Health Problems

Harsh discipline from parents puts young children at greater risk of developing lasting mental health problems, new research shows. A study with over 7,500 children in Ireland found those exposed to ...

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