Sentences with phrase «whose brain child»

First to Simon Fodden — the other Simon — whose brain child this was, and who has stuck with us through thick and thin, and dedicated his significant technical and cultural skills to making this networked community work.

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Two other reports in the same issue of Cancer Causes and Control suggest that children born to mothers who eat at least one hot dog per week during pregnancy have double the normal risk of developing brain tumors, as do children whose fathers ate hot dogs before conception.

Justin Waring Crane is a pediatric occupational therapist whose work with children has given her an understanding of the ways brains develop and are affected by the world.

Volunteers around the world are working everyday on programs, locally and online, to educate and support parents in raising children whose brain neurons are forming each child's reality of love.

The risk for acute lymphocytic leukemia, lymphoma, and brain cancer is highest for children whose fathers have been heavy smokers for long periods of time.

Olivia Campbell is a health writer whose articles and essays have appeared in the Daily Beast, Brain, Child magazine, and Mothering magazine.

These activities are too passive for children, whose brains are stimulated by activity.

Studying preterm infants in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at St. Louis Children's Hospital, the researchers found that preemies whose daily diets were at least 50 percent breast milk had more brain tissue and cortical - surface area by their due dates than premature babies who consumed significantly less breast milk.

In addition, your tween's body and brain are growing at a rapid pace, and that can be confusing to a child whose not ready for change, or unsure about what all those changes mean.

His group is also planning longitudinal studies to identify the brain and behavioral characteristics that distinguish children who will have persistent numerical and mathematical deficits from those whose problems are more transient.

Proton therapy has been shown to be beneficial for certain uncommon ocular and brain cancers, and especially for treating children like Jonathan, whose developing tissues can be highly sensitive to stray radiation.

Imagine the anguish of a parent whose child is diagnosed with an incurable form of childhood brain cancer.

So a research team led by scientists at Children's National Health System in Washington, D.C., delivered subpar levels of oxygen to newborn piglets, whose course of brain development and whose highly evolved brain structure mirrors in many respects those of humans.

Funded to focus on PANS by two wealthy parents whose child was diagnosed with the disease, Agalliu began searching in 2012 for controls to the trap door that autoantibodies use to sneak into the brain.

The finding suggests that this type of scan could be used to identify children whose risk was previously unknown, allowing them to undergo treatment before developing depression, says John Gabrieli, the Grover M. Hermann Professor in Health Sciences and Technology and a professor of brain and cognitive sciences at MIT.

Using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), the research team also found anatomical changes in the brains of children whose reading abilities improved — in particular, a thickening of the cortex in parts of the brain known to be involved in reading.

The same children whose reading scores improved also displayed changes in their brain anatomy.

This is a very important finding for planning long - term treatment for children whose brains may be more vulnerable to the effects of a prolonged seizure.

Sustained emotional stress is known to damage the brain, and scientists wonder how it might affect the right and left prefrontal cortex, particularly in young children whose brains are still developing.

Cortical thinning is a normal aspect of brain development during early childhood, so Lebel says the findings suggest that the brain may be developing prematurely in children whose mothers experience more depressive symptoms.

However, those mothers who gave up smoking when they learned they were pregnant had children whose brains developed as normal.

Hanan El Marroun at Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and her colleagues used MRI to look at the brains of 113 children aged between 6 and 8 whose mothers smoked when pregnant, and another 113 whose mothers did not.

Children whose mothers smoked when pregnant have altered brain growth, which may put them at greater risk of anxiety and depression.

Instructed to attend to only one of two competing stories — «The Blue Kangaroo» vs. «Harry the Dog,» for example — the children whose parents had received additional attention instruction showed a 50 percent increase in brain activity in response to the correct story compared to children in the other two groups, the authors report online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences; their responses matched those seen in adults and children of higher socioeconomic status.

This says the research team is particularly valuable for children, whose brains are still developing and who thus run the highest risk of injury from the radiotherapy often used against malignant brain tumours.

If further research in the mice bears out, they could soon be tested in children whose brain tumors also show a decrease in ATRX production.

«It shifted the focus from fetuses to adults, and also children whose brains are still developing,» said Sujan Shresta, a professor at the La Jolla Institute of Allergy and Immunology who's a co-author of the study.

This is especially vital for children, whose developing brains need adequate proteins and fats to function.

Although there is no easy answer, parents - to - be can lower their risk of giving birth to a child with ADHD, autism, or other brain disorder by limiting exposure to environmental toxins both in the home and outside (for instance, rates of autism are found to be higher in those whose mothers lived near freeways during pregnancy), eating a whole foods diet free of common food sensitivities (such as gluten), and testing for and managing any autoimmune reactions.

Indeed, there may be no threshold that precludes adverse neuropsychological effects in children, 24,26 whose brains are rapidly developing.

The effect of excess linoleic acid is probably most detrimental to infants and young children whose brains are still developing.

Later in childhood, for children whose brain architecture has been disrupted by previous toxic stress, we can help by diagnosing learning problems as early as possible and providing appropriate special education services as needed.

«That can have a real wear and tear effect on the body if that level of stress is present a lot of the time,» he says, «particularly for a young child whose brain is developing, whose other organ systems are maturing and developing.»

«My passion is to understand how kids» brains work,» continues Dave, whose research focuses on the child - father attachment, particularly on paternal self - esteem and attachment patterns that repeat generation to generation.

It is the story of how adults can work to «reset» children whose brains and emotions have been damaged by exposure to violence, trauma, or neglect.

The gallery, nestled in a quiet corner of Notting Hill, is the brain child of art - lover Andrew Lacey whose passion and ambition shine through in this show as well as in his plans for future exhibitions.

Air pollution may be invisible but its effects can last forever, especially for children whose lungs, brains and immune systems are still developing.

A parent whose child suffers a brain or spinal cord injury may suddenly find that the child requires full - time care.

Birth injury claim: Karl represented a family whose child needed extensive treatment after suffering a catastrophic brain injury during birth.

Our clients were a family whose child suffered a brain injury from asphyxia sustained shortly before his birth.

Spokeswoman Jennipher Dickens, whose infant son was shaken by his father at the age of seven weeks, said in a statement: «As a result of the child abuse my son endured in the form of Shaken Baby Syndrome, my son now has irreversible brain damage.

In examining the brain scans, the researchers found that children whose mothers were more supportive than average had increases in growth of the hippocampus that were more than two times greater than in those whose mothers were slightly below average on the nurturing scale.

The researchers studied a series of brain scans of children from preschool through early adolescence, finding a sharper rise in the volume of the hippocampus in the kids whose mothers supported and nurtured them during the preschool years.

The advocacy group says poverty is especially harmful to young children, whose brains are still developing.

Target Population: Parents with learning differences whose children are at risk of being neglected due to parenting skill deficiencies including parents who learn best with a step - by - step approach, such parents with learning difficulties related to intellectual disabilities, learning disabilities, low literacy, and acquired brain injury.

In case you are new around here, The One Room Challenge (ORC) is the brain child of designer / blogger Linda whose blog is called Calling It Home.