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'Miracle' Toddler Survives After Getting Hook Lodged in Brain
PRODUCTION PLAYER! DO NOT DELETE. brightcove.createExperiences(); A 17-month-old boy wasn't so lucky when he fell off his family's porch on July 17. He landed on a pressure washer, which embedded a metal hook in his brain, just ...
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New Study: Parents Stink
Another day, another article on how we parents can screw up our kids with our very best intentions. I'm getting sick of these things. Right now, a bunch of people are sending me this piece from the New Scientist because they think I'll love ...
Scientists Discover Evidence of Brain Rewiring in Kids
Imaging shows compromised white matter (blue area) in poor readers, left; increase in structural integrity (red/yellow) among poor readers who received instruction, center; and after instruction, previously poor readers had the same structural ...
Autism - Toddlers Brains are Different by Age 2
Early brain changes might be a clue to how autism develops. Image: Jeff Kubina on Flickr
Here's a little Brain 101: The amygdala is the part of your brain helps you identify and "read" faces, something known as joint attention. "When you see a ...
Good Science, Bad Parenting
The experiment took place inside the home of M.I.T. scientist Deb Roy. Eleven video cameras and 14 microphones were placed in ceilings throughout in order to document the first three years of his son's life and language development. It's officially ...
Head Banging Bad for Brains
It has been quite some time since I have had occasion to bang my head. I am not talking about the frustrated slamming of my skull on a wall (for that I find justification almost daily), but the rhythmic shaking to and fro of my head in time to rock ...Doctors Remove Fully-Formed Foot From Newborn's Brain
This may seem like something out of the Weekly World News, but is, in fact, being reported from UK's Times Online. American doctors in Colorado Springs, Colorado, removed a fully-formed foot from the brain of a three-day-old infant after detecting a ...
When "placenta brain" attacks
The other day I went to the post office and bought some stamps to put on some thank you notes I'd written for gifts I'd received for my new daughter. I'd actually created an excel spreadsheet with the name of each person who'd given me a gift, what ...
Will obesity in a pregnant woman sway her kid's vote?
I gotta tell ya, after reading this article, it's doubtful. Possible, sure--anything is--but doubtful. I love Olivia Judson, the biologist and oft-contributor to the New York Times. She brings out the science nerd buried not so far within me. Her ...
Making babies makes you smarter
Want to get smarter? Have a kid. The human brain makes new cells constantly over a lifetime, but the cells are most likely to survive and flourish when challenged with emotional and novel experiences. Scientists now say that parenthood provides the ...
Flu shots, pregnancy and the unborn child
Hard to believe but it's already flu season again. Or, to be more accurate, it's really (hopefully) flu PREVENTION season. This week the Center for Disease Control whipped out a new, stronger than ever campaign to get pregnant women and young ...
Hyperactive kids catch up with their peers
According to a recent report in the LA Times, children with ADHD, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, will eventually catch up with their peers. This is good news for worried parents. ADHD was thought at one time to be a deviance from normal ...
Relief for parents: machine gives 8 hours sleep in just 2
Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) has nothing to do with teenage boys, flashlights, and picturesque magazines. It's actually a means of sending "harmless magnetic signals through the scalp and skull and into the brain." Okay, so what's the ...
Brain power boosted by having babies, say Virginia researchers
Pregnancy boosts brain power. That's the word coming from two Virginia researchers, Craig Kinsley of Richmond University, and Kelly Lambert of Randolph-Macon College. During pregnancy, they say, learning and memory skills actually increase, and right ...
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