Sentences with phrase «brains of small children»

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The condition, in which infants are born with abnormally small heads and underdeveloped brains, is estimated to cost $ 10 million over the lifetime of one child.

When I look into their eyes I picture a small child's brain stunted by some sort of barrier to critical thinking and any form of research methodology.

Our brains have evolved to recognize grammatical structures in sentences, which is why small children learn to speak so quickly when they reach that stage of development.

Rather than pushing, if you can talk to your child and find out the parts that are hard or scary for your child, then you can brain storm how to break down the challenge to smaller steps, or clear up a misperception of the consequences of that step, and in so doing, turn what was frightening into an opportunity for mastery and success.

Here's the thing - unless you've lived the season of being at home with small children, you just can't know how it consumes all of your brain cells.

Given the results of a a new study reported in the British medical journal, The Lancet4 that children and young adults scanned multiple times by CT have a small increased risk of leukemia and brain tumors in the decade following their first scan, parents should make sure a CT scan is really necessary in treatment of their child after head injury.

With the advent of neuroscience, we know the brains of psychopaths are atypical, leading some experts to call psychopathy a neurodevelopmental disorder, akin to autism, and one that's diagnosable even in small children.

The finding of virus in the brain could also be important, since the most devastating impact of the current outbreak in Brazil appears to be children of infected mothers born with microcephaly — abnormally small heads and, in some cases, incomplete brain development.

To build their tool, Alison Galvani, from Yale University in New Haven, USA, and colleagues focused on the two known serious consequences of Zika infection: microcephaly, a condition in which children are born with a small brain causing mental impairment, and Guillain - Barré syndrome or GBS, a potentially fatal disease that can cause neural damage and paralysis.

By creating a way to correct for motion, the team was able to make a four - dimensional reconstruction of brain activity in moving subjects, opening the door for studies on subjects that don't stay still for long, like fetuses and small children.

The symptoms range widely: over half of the infections are thought to be asymptomatic, the majority of children who get sick have only a mild fever, and a very small proportion get inflammation of the heart or brain.

Now, a study in the journal Brain describes what could be considered a direct «aquarium - to - bedside» approach, taking a drug discovered in a genetic zebrafish model of epilepsy and testing it, with promising results, in a small number of children with the disease.

The 1 autistic child with a brain size within the 95 % CI of controls had among the greatest prefrontal neuron counts in the study, which raises the question of whether excess prefrontal neuron counts may be present in other autistic children who have near normal or smaller brain sizes.

Children's developing brains and nervous systems are susceptible to toxins and even small amounts of lead exposure add up over time, increasing risk of developmental effects.

Even though the concentration of DHA in breast milk is very small, the brains of breast - fed infants accumulate fifty percent more DHA than those of infants fed formulas devoid of the fatty acid.43 When a mother improves her DHA status by supplementing with cod liver oil during pregnancy and the first three months of lactation, 44 it improves her child's IQ at four years of age, although the effect is drowned out by other factors as the child grows older.45

Severely neglected children have been found to have smaller prefrontal cortexes, an area of the brain that supports executive function.

Parts of the brain involved in reading, math, music, and personal relationships are different — larger or smaller, more or less active — in every child.

The Center on the Developing Child is pleased to participate in the collaborative effort to refine, test, and produce professionally crafted sets of the Brain Architecture game, ready to be played in large - or small - group settings.

Even small differences in access to the activities and experiences that are known to promote brain development can accumulate, resulting in a sizable gap between two groups of children defined by family circumstances.

Although her main emphasis throughout her career as a veterinarian has been small animal general medicine and surgery, prior to veterinary school she spent three years as a research associate in the department of (human) neurosurgery at th Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia investigating the biochemical changes that occur in the brain after severe head injury.

The clear social gradient associated with children's vocabulary, emerging literacy, well - being and behaviour is evident from birth to school entry.1 These trajectories track into adolescence and correspond to poorer educational attainment, income and health across the life course.2 — 10 Neuroimaging research extends the evidence for these suboptimal trajectories, showing that children raised in poverty from infancy are more likely to have delayed brain growth with smaller volumetric size of the regions particularly responsible for executive functioning and language.11 This evidence supports the need for further effort to redress inequities that arise from the impact of adversity during the potential developmental window of opportunity in early childhood.

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A 10 - year study by National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) demonstrated that the brains of children and adolescents with ADHD (ADD) are 3 - 4 % smaller than those of children without the disorder, and that pharmacologic treatment is not the cause.

Because human gray matter follows a nonlinear developmental trajectory, we established a reference for typical development in focal brain areas and constructed an index that measured whether regional gray matter volume was larger or smaller than expected, comparing children with others of the same sex and age.

Some elements of a quality program — such as teacher background checks and environmental standards — are clearly worth the cost from a health and safety perspective.32 Others, such as low ratios and small group sizes, allow for high - quality, developmentally appropriate interactions that have a direct impact on the socio - emotional, language, and brain development of young children.

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