April 4, 2015
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We’ve long known that children from affluent families get a head start that can translate into a long-lasting advantage, especially when it comes to academic achievement. Now, scientists have found what may be part of the explanation: Children who grow up in higher-income families appear to have larger brains.
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Researchers from nine universities across the country, led by neuroscientists at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles and Columbia University Medical Center, conducted a major new study of the effects of family income and parental education on child and adolescent brain development.
“We’ve known for a long time that kids from lower-income or disadvantaged families don’t do as well in school and have more difficulties on standardized tests,” Dr. Elizabeth Sowell, director of the Developmental Cognitive Neuroimaging Laboratory at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, told The Huffington Post. “We know that the brain is driving cognition and behavior, so there must be some difference in the brain. This is the largest study to look at things like family income and the size of the brain.”
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A major new study shows a positive association between family income and greater brain development in children. | Orhanam via Getty Images
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May 23, 2014
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Medical
amazon, brain activity, business, Business News, capable person, Cerebral Palsy, Cerebral Palsy injury to the brain, Child Development, Child With Cerebral Palsy, Hotels, huffingtonpost, human-rights, injury to the brain, Maysoon Zayid, medicine, mental-health, research, Science, Science News, technology, Technology News, travel, vacation
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Maysoon Zayid was not supposed to walk, nor be the amazing and capable person she is today. She beat the odds. Many children with cerebral palsy do not. Can other children like her surpass what doctors and others believe possible for them? The answer is a resounding yes⎯by harnessing the remarkable powers of the brain to change itself for the better. How can that be done?
Cerebral Palsy is an injury to the brain that interferes with the spontaneous process of movement development in the child. It is easy to mistake the child’s limitations to mean that the brain itself is limited in its capacity to learn and that the current limitations define what is possible for the child in the future.
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A child with Cerebral Palsy
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November 28, 2012
Mohenjo
Medical
4D scans of 15 healthy fetuses, Babies, Baby Yawn, Brain Science, business, Child Development, current-events, Fetus, Fetus Development, Fetus Yawn, fetuses, hiccup, huffingtonpost, london reuters, Parents News, research, Reuters, Science, Science News, swallow, technology, travel, unborn babies, unborn babies hiccup, unborn babies stretch, unborn babies swallow, unborn babies yawn, vacation, Video, womb, Yawning
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LONDON (Reuters) – Growing into a fully formed human being is a long process, and scientists have found that unborn babies not only hiccup, swallow and stretch in the womb, they yawn too.
Researchers who studied 4D scans of 15 healthy fetuses also said they think yawning is a developmental process which could potentially give doctors a new way to check on a baby’s health.
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